hello, I am having issues with restarting the conveyor motor for the second time in the simulation. The first time there is no issue. But the second time, the photo-eye stops the motor, it doesn't continue the conveyors properly. only one part of the connected conveyors resume, the rest doesn't do anything. What can I do to fix this problem?
see the simulation file or the video for the first stop in comparison to the second stop when the problem occurs.
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I think it has something to do with acceleration and deceleration. If I set this to 0 it works fine. If I set this on something about 0,5 until 1 m/s/s, the conveyors start behaving strangely when stopping and starting up again. Some conveyors are stopping late while others stop directly with the same settings. And some conveyors won't start up again.
I believe that you are correct about the acceleration/deceleration being the problem. Since you're controlling the conveyor motion with the motor rather than by changing the speed of the conveyor directly, the value of the acceleration/deceleration results in breaking some of the logic. I would recommend just changing those values to 0 as you mentioned; it doesn't appear to change the visual behavior of the model anyway.
Best of luck!
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