Decommissioning Of Balancing Device - ABB IRB 6650S - 200/3.0 Product Manual

6 Decommissioning

6.2. Decommissioning of balancing device

6.2. Decommissioning of balancing device
General
There is much energy stored in the balancing device. Therefore a special procedure is
required to dismantle it. The coil springs inside the balancing device exert a potentially lethal
force unless dismantled properly.
The device must be dismantled by a decommissioning company.
Required equipment
Equipment
Standard toolkit
Cutting torch
Other tools and procedures may be
required. See references to these
procedures in the step-by-step
instructions below.
DANGER!
Do not under any circumstances, deal with the balancing device in any other way than that
detailed in the product documentation! For example, attempting to open the balancing device
is potentially lethal!
Action on field, decommissioning
The procedure below details the actions to perform on field, when the balancing device is to
be decommissioned.
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Action
1. Remove the balancing device from the robot. Detailed in section
2. Send the device to a decommissioning
company.
Art. no. Note
- The contents are defined in section
Standard toolkit on page 388
the Product manual.
For opening housing and cutting coils
These procedures include references
to the tools required.
Note
device on page
Make sure the decommissioning
company is well informed about the
stored energy built up by high tensioned
compression springs and that the device
contains some grease.
The following procedure contains useful
information about decommissioning.
3HAC020993-001 Revision: G
in part 2 of
Removal, balancing
289.
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