Welcome to part 2 of the Atlas Copco Tensor SL tutorial series
In this video we will be showing you how to connect your controller to ToolsTalk Power Focus using USB
Create a Pset
Do some rundowns
and then view your results and traces on the computer
Now the first thing you will want to do is turn on your Power Focus controller
normally this would be on the wall
but I have it propped up so I can access the USB port on the bottom of the controller
Once you have your USB cord plugged into your controller
you should figure out which serial port it is running through
I'm running windows 7 here
and the easiest way to do so
is to go into the start menu and type into devices, go into your device manager
and it should show you which one you are on
Let's do that now.
Hitting start I just type in the word Device
and go to device manager
and now that we are in the device manager
I'll go down to the option that says ports
and then (COM & LTP)
USB serial port COM5 is the only one that is active
and that is the only USB that I have plugged into this computer right now.
So let's go back into ToolsTalk Power Focus now
and we will go up top to our options menu
go into settings
and then where it says COM port it will default to COM port 0
Now it should once you click on it only show you the options that are available
Since we only have one com port connected we will go ahead and hit COM port 5.
Then we hit OK
and back in our window over here we can double click on SerialPF
and we should connect
this is a much easier way than connecting through ethernet
however you don't always have the option of having your laptop directly next to your controller
and able to run a USB cable between the two of them
now that it is finished connecting
we can see that we have all of our options
to set PSets, view all the jobs and such
as you can see here we have a couple Psets in our Pset menu
Just one and two
If we wanted to we could right click on the Pset itself to create a new one
But I'm going to edit Pset number one
I'll double click on it to open it up
Now our Pset window opens up and we have a few different options
We are going to use a 2 stage tightening strategy
as well as doing torque control with just angle monitoring, something simple
If we go over to the torque tab now
we can set all of our values
we have our torque cycle start set to .2
our first target at 1.47
our final torque minimum at 3.15
and our final target at 3.5
our final torque max is going to be set to 3.85
and our cycle complete is at 0.12
for the angle information we have an angle max
of 300
which seems like it is a little bit high
I'll change this down to 180
let's leave it at 200
everything else looks pretty good
We can go into our speed and ramp data
we have our speed set to 50% for speed 1
20% for speed two
with our loosening speed at 100
that all looks pretty good
We will go ahead and hit store
now since we still have our controller plugged into the USB
we won't be able to do anything on the controller itself
we'll have to control it from the computer
So I will make sure that up top where it says running
we can open it up and we see the 2 Psets that we have saved
Let's make sure that Pset 1, the one we just edited
is selected
Go ahead and hit OK
and now I also want to see a live trace while we are doing our rundown
so I'll open the trace monitor right here which looks like a little graph
and that should pop open in a second
go ahead and make it full screen
and then if we want to see updates live
down at the bottom over here
make sure that this box that says auto update is checked
and we have it displaying torque over time, which is what I'm interested in most
So let's start some rundowns and we should see our results start to pop up
So our first result came in
3.57
almost exactly where we wanted it
and you can see our trace just popped up on screen
So now we get not only our torque reading and angle
information from the controller,
but a good idea of what the joint is doing
I'll do another rundown so you can watch it update
Now if we wanted to save this trace for later
There is a little save icon up here on the top left
and we can save this trace or we can save all traces
and if you click save this trace you have several options for saving
and you can save it locally to your hard drive or anywhere you'd like
Say we wanted to see the results
up here next to the trace monitor we have a little computer screen icon
I'll hit the button on the right
scroll down to get all results, and then select the Pset that we are using which is Pset 1 and hit OK
Now we can see all of the results of the last few rundowns that we just performed
with all the current information such as torque, angle status, angle
the date, the time and the torque status
and if we wanted to we could either open this in excel
or we could again save it to file
here we have other text options, excel options and other such ones that we could save it to
from there you will be able to print your results and do whatever you'd like. So let's save this to our desktop
And here is our text file with all the results of what we just did
I did a few rundowns beforehand.
and that is how easy it is to connect to your controller via USB.
Of course you are able to see all this information the graph unit itself,
if you were to go into the trace monitor
however sometimes it's nice to have it on your computer
if you do have a compact model of course you wouldn't be able to see this information
So it's very helpful to have toolstalk PF installed so you can check it out
Thanks for watching this tutorial I hope you guys enjoyed it
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