Lincoln Electric 4R90, i400 ArcLink! XT Features:, ArcLink! Features:

LincolnElectric emerges as an industry leader with a distributed control architecture

design in the Power Wave®i400 sys tem created with a flexible design that e nsures

futureexpansion capabilities and features.

Thestate-of-the-art technology used in this system is designed with the highest

performancedigital controls in the robotic power source marketplace:

• Over5000 MIPS processing power

• 100Mbps full duplex data transfer rate

• 32Mbytes SDRAM memory

• Morethan 16 Mbytes FLASH Memory

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DIGITALCOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY®

TheLincoln Electric Company led the industry with the introduction of ArcLink®, the first digital

communicationsprotocol forthe arcwelding industryintroduced in2002. ArcLink®is a protocol,or

meansof communicatingand sharinginformation between intelligentcomponents forseamless, time-

criticaldata transfer in an arc welding system.

Continuingthis 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,

buteXtends this communication protocol on an Ethernet connection directly to the FANUC®Robotics

R30iAcontroller.

Formore information see Nextweld®Document #NX-1.30

ArcLink! XT Features:

NewStandard Features - Ethernet is a standard feature on the Power Wave®i400 with no

additionalhardware cost and also offers Lincoln Electric's Production Monitoring™ utility as a

partof the robotic solution.

PerformanceBased Design - 100 MHz, full duplex Ethernet interface offers a reliable and

consistenthardware platformfor industrialenvironments, and facilitates futurefeature expansion.

LowerCost System - Lower cost system for multi-equipment (multi-arm) through addition of a

networkEthernet switch. No additional cards or hardware required.

ArcLink! Features:

CommonUser Interface - The Teach Pendant can display actualvolts,

wirefeed speed,etc, in process specific units.

ReducedSet-up Time - As an ArcLink®device, all communicationwith the

robotcontroller, power source, wire feeder areautomatically recognized.

FullAccess to Welding Database - Search byprocess, material, and

procedureright fromthe Teach Pendant and access allset-up variables.