ArcLink! XT Features, ArcLink! Features

DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY®

The Lincoln Electric Company led the industry with the introduction of ArcLink®, the first digital
communications protocol for the arc welding industry introduced in 2002. ArcLink® is a protocol, or
means of communicating and sharing information between intelligent components for seamless, time-
critical data transfer in an arc welding system.	®
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Continuing this leading position, Lincoln Electric has now introduced another industry first with ArcLink® XT, which takes all of the same features and benefits of traditional ArcLink communication, but eXtends this communication protocol on an Ethernet connection directly to the FANUC® Robotics R30iA controller.

For more information see Nextweld® Document #NX-1.30

LINCOLN ELECTRIC AND FANUC® ROBOTICS ADVANTAGES:

ArcLink! XT Features:

New Standard Features - Ethernet is a standard feature on the Power Wave® i400 with no additional hardware cost and also offers Lincoln Electric's Production Monitoring™ utility as a part of the robotic solution.

Performance Based Design - 100 MHz, full duplex Ethernet interface offers a reliable and consistent hardware platform for industrial environments, and facilitates future feature expansion.

Lower Cost System - Lower cost system for multi-equipment (multi-arm) through addition of a network Ethernet switch. No additional cards or hardware required.

ArcLink! Features:

Common User Interface - The Teach Pendant can display actual volts, wire feed speed, etc, in process specific units.

Reduced Set-up Time - As an ArcLink® device, all communication with the robot controller, power source, wire feeder are automatically recognized.

Full Access to Welding Database - Search by process, material, and procedure right from the Teach Pendant and access all set-up variables.

HIGH SPEED DIGITAL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY & FEATURES:

Lincoln Electric emerges as an industry leader with a distributed control architecture design in the Power Wave® i400 system created with a flexible design that ensures future expansion capabilities and features.

The state-of-the-art technology used in this system is designed with the highest performance digital controls in the robotic power source marketplace:

•Over 5000 MIPS processing power

•100 Mbps full duplex data transfer rate

•32 Mbytes SDRAM memory

•More than 16 Mbytes FLASH Memory

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