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Old 11-20-2007
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Question Stop conveyor on loading

Here's my (seemingly simple) problem: I have an elevator that feeds cylinders to a conveyor. I've set the unload time to ~16, reflecting a process by which these cylinders "roll" off the elevator and onto the conveyor.
What I want is for the conveyor to stop during this loading process. Then, when the cylinder is on the conveyor, it can start up again.
Any thoughts?
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Old 11-20-2007
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In between the elevator and the conveyor, you can put a processor with a process time of ~16, which will represent the delay of unloading the elevator. Add an OnEntry trigger, and write your own code. stopobject(outobject(current,1), STATE_IDLE, 2); which will stop the conveyor, and add an OnProcessFinish, resume the conveyor with resumeobject(outobject(current,1), 2);
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Thumbs up Problem fixed

Very cool. I camouflaged the appearance of the processor so that it still looks like the cylinders are just rolling off the elevator onto the conveyor.

Thanks Tyson.



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