Motor and Group Details

Groups

Stagehand Cards may also represent a group of axes. This is indicated by the lock icon in the top-left corner of the Stagehand Card. Groups can only be created at the Spikemark PC. To learn more about how groups work, refer to Groups.

To find out more information about a group including what individual axis are controlled by it, simply double tap the group's Stagehand Card to access Group Details.

From this menu you see and access the following:

1. Make the group Active or Inactive.

   NOTE: An Inactive group will not be able to move until Reactivated.

2. Below Active you can view the group's Position Delta. NOTE: Adjustments can only be made at the Spikemark PC.

3. Reset Drives within the group should you experience a fault during operation.

4. Connect All or Disconnect All Stagehands from Spikemark NOTE: Disconnected Stagehands will not allow movement of their respective machines within a group

5. Activate All or Deactivate All machines within the group. NOTE: Deactivated machines will not run within the group until reactivated. This is perfect should you need to take a faulted or broken machine temporarily out of a group.

6. Activate or Deactivate individual machines by tapping them in the Axis/Stagehand List

7. Add or move the group to a Spike or a one time Move to Position

Motor Details

Similar to Group Details, you need only double tap a single Stagehand Card to access its Motor Details.

You'll notice a very similar screen that allows a lot of the same accessibility as the Group Details menu with a few extras. You can now also:

1. Turn Load Alarms On/Off

2. Access Motor Status which gives you a lot more incite into why a motor is faulted or is not able to move. NOTE: Green means go! If you notice one of your parameters is showing red, try reseting the drive.

3. Access Motor Properties where you can adjust a variety of things such as:

   a) Max Fdw/Rev Position to further limit the travel of a motor

   b) Max/Min Jog Percent to adjust the sensitivety of the Jog Paddle

   c) Default Speed, Accel and Decel to adjust how fast your machines move when moving to a Spike or Move to Position.