Specifications

MACRO CPU Board
MACRO Station Character Display 17
MACRO STATION CHARACTER DISPLAY
The Compact MACRO Station has a single hexadecimal character display on the CPU/Interface Board that
provides useful information as to the status of the station. The display can show the following values:
Value Meaning
(
Blank
)
Rin
g
not active
0-8 O
p
eration OK; value is # of motors enable
d
9
(
Reserved for future use
)
A
Am
p
lifier faul
t
B Rin
g
break faul
t
C CPU failure faul
t
D Rin
g
data erro
r
E Loss-of-encoder faul
t
F Other failure
Hardware Re-Initialization
MACRO hardware reinitialization to factory defaults is enabled when the SW1 setting is set to 15 or F
(hexidecimal) and the power is cycled at the MACRO Station. The only time the user would want to use a
hardware reinitialization to factory defaults with the MACRO Station would be if the MACRO Station always
powers up with a watchdog (typically if the ring clock at the Ultralite is different than the ring clock at the
MACRO Station). Node 11 will be the only MACRO Station node enabled. Therefore, the user will have to
enable node 11 of the MACRO IC at the Ultralite to communicate to the MACRO Station.
Ultralite Example: Servo nodes 0,1,4,5 enabled at Ultralite (I996=$0F8033)
(A) The user would have to enable node 11, I996=$0F8833
(B) Then user can reestablish communications with MS11,(MIvar) commands
(C) Issue MS$$$***11 to ensure re-initialization
(D) Issue MSSAVE11 command to save the factory defaults to the Station
Turbo Ultralite Example: Servo nodes 0,1,4,5 enabled at Ultralite (I6841=$0F8033)
(A) The user would have to enable node 11, I996=$0F8833
(B) Then user can reestablish communications with MS11,(MIvar) commands
(C) (C) Issue MS$$$***11 to ensure re-initialization
(D) Issue MSSAVE11 command to save the factory defaults to the Station