8.9 R214 for Selecting Welding Guns Simultaneously

You can select the numbers of spot welding guns (servo guns or pneumatic guns) that are to be used in a welding operation in which multiple spot welding guns will be used at the same time.

1. After inputting 214 in the favorites window, touch the [OK] button or press the <enter> key.

2. After inputting the numbers of the welding guns to use simultaneously, touch the [OK] button or press the <enter> key.

• The selected spot gun number will be displayed on the [Gun] button on the left side of the Hi6 teach pendant screen.

• If you select spot welding guns that are different in type from each other, a notification message (“The Gun Type of the Currently Selected Gun is Set Incorrectly.”) will appear.

• R214 code cannot be used during the startup of the robot.

• The spot gun number can only be set in the spot welding environment ([Spot Welding] item in the [Set Up > 5: Initialize > 3: Usage Setting] menu is set as enable.

• You can check the setting status of the spot welding gun in the [Set Up > 4: Application Parameter > 1: Spot Welding > 1: Gun Number Corresponding Tool Number and Gun Type Setting] menu.

  • When a gun is selected as a multisync gun, the manual squeeze/open/close operations of the selected gun will be simultaneously in sync with the previously selected guns.

  • When a gun is selected as a multisync gun, if the gun LED is in the ON status, the SPOT command will be recorded in the sync spot format.

• The selected spot welding gun can be operated manually. For details on the spot welding function, refer to the “Hi6 Controller Spot Welding Function Manual.”