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Rockwell Automation GMLC Reference Manual User Manual

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Publication GMLC-5.2 - November 1999

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Status Variables

Gearing Status

Gearing_status is a logical (Boolean) variable which has values of:

1 (true) if electronic gearing is active for the axis

0 (false) if not

In the Tag Explorer, select both Axis System Variables and the desired
physical or imaginary axis, then select Gearing_status in the Tag Window.

Gearing is activated by a Gear Axes block and stopped by a Disable
Gearing or Stop Motion block.

When Gearing_status = 1, Axis_status

5 if no faults are active on the

axis.

Registration Status

Registration_status is a logical (Boolean) variable which has values of:

0 (false) after a registration event has been set up and before the
registration event occurs

1 (true) after the registration event occurs

In the Tag Explorer, select both Axis System Variables and the desired
physical or virtual axis, then select Registration_status in the Tag
Window.

The value of the Registration_status variable indicates whether a
previously set up registration event for the axis has occurred.