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8.7 Details of the Maintenance Group Function
This section mainly describes the Maintenance group that has the function to browse,
download and upload (*) the internal data of the drive.
Download: Processing to send data from a PC to the drive (restore work)
Upload:
Processing to store the drive information to a PC (backup work)
8.7.1 #parameter Maintenance
The #parameter maintenance function is used to save and browse the #parameters set up by
users and the user #parameters that are saved as files in the drive. Downloading/uploading of
only #parameters can be performed with the drive connected.
A #parameter file is saved as a text file. Although it is not necessary to be aware of the file
format, a brief description of the file format is given below:
(1)
It contains drive information, and is processed as comments.
(2)
It is a group of machine setup parameters that requires cycling of the power to
reflect it.
(3)
It is followed by a group of regular parameters.
The utility software issues a software reset to the drive after downloading of a group of
machine setup parameters listed in (2) above as a download sequence to the drive. The drive
is set to the servo OFF state during a reset operation. Therefore, be sure to check safety
before operating.
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(2)
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