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230V FX Series Positioning Drive Reference Manual
Getting Started - Main Menu
When you press any key while viewing the Introductory screen, the Main Menu will appear.
From the Main Menu you may work directly with an FX drive or with a disk file.
When you select On-line Operations COM1, COM2, COM3 or COM4, PCX will
automatically check all baud rates and attempt serial communications with the drive through
the serial port you selected. If you select Disk File Operations, you can set up a data file for
a single axis without being “on-line” with a drive.
Figure 58: PCX Main Menu
You can use the Serial Communications option to manually establish communications with
the drive. This option may be helpful at start-up time if you are not able to establish
communications with the On-line Operations functions.
Establishing Communications
You should review the following checklist before attempting communications.
1. You must securely connect the serial cable to the personal computer serial port and the
FX drive Serial 1A port. On a multi-axis system you must connect the serial cables as
shown below.