Ground Point On Robot Base; Robot-Mounted Equipment Grounding; Installing User-Supplied Safety Equipment; Figure 3-11. Ground Point On Robot Base - adept technology Adept Cobra i600 User Manual

Ground Point on Robot Base

The user can install a protective earth ground wire at the robot base to ground the robot.
See Figure 3-11. The robot ships with an M8 x 12 stainless steel, hex-head screw, and M8
split and flat washers installed in the grounding hole. The user is responsible for
supplying the ground wire to connect to protective earth ground.
Ground Point on Robot
Base, with M8 x 12
screw and washers
installed

Robot-Mounted Equipment Grounding

The following parts of an Adept Cobra i600/i800 robot are not grounded to protective
earth: the Joint 3 quill and the tool flange. If hazardous voltages are present at any
user-supplied robot-mounted equipment or tooling, you must install a ground connection
from that equipment/tooling to the ground point on the robot base. Hazardous voltages
can be considered anything in excess of 30
See also
Figure 7-4 on page 94
3.9

Installing User-Supplied Safety Equipment

The user is responsible for installing safety barriers to protect personnel from coming in
contact with the robot unintentionally. Depending on the design of the workcell, safety
gates, light curtains, and emergency stop devices can be used to create a safe
environment. Read
Refer to Section 4.7 on page 49
system through the XUSR connector on the AIB XPANEL cable. There is a detailed section
on Emergency Stop Circuits and diagrams on recommended E-Stop configurations.
Adept Cobra i600/i800 Robot User's Guide, Rev G

Figure 3-11. Ground Point on Robot Base

for the grounding point on the tool flange.
DANGER:
Failing to ground robot-mounted equipment or
tooling that uses hazardous voltages could lead to injury
or death of a person touching the end-effector when an
electrical fault condition exists.
Chapter 3 in this manual for a discussion of safety issues.
for information on connecting safety equipment to the
Installing User-Supplied Safety Equipment
(42.4 peak) or 60
VAC VAC
.
VDC
35