I'm trying to stop and restart a conveyor system from within a process flow.
Its 132 conveyors linked to 1 motor.
Stopping works fine with Stop Object referencing the Motor.
But restarting doesn't work with Resume Object. The Motor remains in "State Stopped"
What can I do?
Thanks,
I forgot to mention that it's a conveyor loop with power & free and the Motor has sync dog gaps and adjust gaps for continuous loop. I don't know if that's relevant to my question.
I also tried doing the Stop-Start routine with a mtbfmtbr referencing the Motor and I get the same problem.
I can't figure how to send it to you hidden or privately. Do I email it to you? What address?
But I did notice that it does Resume but only conveyor section 1 (out of 132). Its like the StopObject stops all the child of the Motor but the ResumeObject only resumes the 1st.
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I looked at the problem for a while, and the only thing I could figure out was that if I copied and pasted the entire conveyor system and motor into a new model, and then stopped/started it with process flow, it worked. I don't know why this is, but maybe you can use this to get around the issue.
I also just noticed that if I try to use the video recorder the conveyor system works for the first few seconds and then it stops and never restarts for the whole recording. But after the recording is finished the model runs fine. Just not while its recording. Any ideas what could be the link between the video recorder and the conveyor system? I had to use good ol Cantasia Studio to record and it worked great.
Thanks for the clue. I have no idea why that would matter, but we'll look in to it.
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