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Chapter 7. Troubleshooting 237
Error Responses (continued)
Error Response Possible Cause
INVALID FOLMAS SPECIFIED Following: An illegal master was specified in FOLMAS. A slave may never use its own
commanded position or feedback source as its master.
INVALID RATIO Following: Error if the FOLRN:FOLRD ratio after scaling is > 127 when a GO is executed.
LABEL ALREADY DEFINED Defining a program or label with an existing program name or label name
MAXIMUM COMMAND LENGTH EXCEEDED Command exceeds the maximum number of characters
MAXIMUM COUNTS PER SECOND EXCEEDED Velocity value is greater than 1,600,000 counts/second.
MOTION IN PROGRESS Attempting to execute a command not allowed during motion (see Restricted Commands
During Motion on page 18).
Following: The FOLEN1 command was given while that slave was moving in a non-
Following mode.
NEST LEVEL TOO DEEP IFs, REPEATs, WHILEs, & GOSUBs nested greater than 16 levels
NO MOTION IN PROGRESS Attempting to execute a command that requires motion, but motion is not in progress
NO PATH SEGMENTS DEFINED Compiled Profile (includes contouring) path compilation error
NO PROGRAM BEING DEFINED END command issued before a DEF command
NOT ALLOWED IF SFBØ Changes to tuning commands (SGILIM, SGAF, SGAFN, SGI, SGIN, SGP, SGPN, SGV,
SGVN, SGVF, SGVFN) and SMPER are not allowed if SFBØ is selected.
NOT ALLOWED IN PATH Compiled Profile (includes contouring) path compilation error
NOT DEFINING A PATH Executing a compiled profile or contouring path command while not in a path
NOT VALID DURING FOLLOWING MOTION A GO command was given while moving in the Following mode (FOLEN1) and while in the
preset positioning mode (MCØ).
NOT VALID DURING RAMP A GO command was given while moving in a Following ramp and while in the continuous
positioning mode (MC1). Following status (FS) bit #3 will be set to 1.
PATH ALREADY MOVING Compiled Profile (includes contouring) path compilation error
PATH NOT COMPILED Attempting to execute a individual axis profile or multi-axis contouring path that has not been
compiled
PATH RADIUS TOO SMALL Contouring path compilation error
PATH RADIUS ZERO Contouring path compilation error
PATH VELOCITY ZERO Contouring path compilation error
STRING ALREADY DEFINED A string (program name or label) with the specified name already exists
STRING IS A COMMAND Defining a program or label that is a command or a variant of a command
UNDEFINED LABEL Command issued to product is not a command or program name
WARNING: POINTER HAS WRAPPED
AROUND TO DATA POINT 1
During the process of writing data (DATTCH) or recalling data (DAT), the pointer reached the
last data element in the program and automatically wrapped around to the first datum in the
program
WARNING: ENABLE INPUT INACTIVE Servo controllers only: ENBL input is no longer connected to ground (GND)
WARNING: PULSE CUT INPUT ACTIVE Stepper controllers only: PCUT input is no longer connected to ground (GND)
WARNING: DEFINED WITH ANOTHER
TW/PLC
Duplicate I/O in multiple thumbwheel definitions