2.3.7 Manually releasing the brakes
Introduction to manually releasing the brakes
This section describes how to release the holding brakes for the motors of each
axis.
Location of brake release unit
The internal brake release unit is located as shown in the figure.
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Releasing the brakes
This procedure details how to release the holding brakes when the robot is equipped
with an internal brake release unit.
Note
Action
Buttons are shown in figure
tion of brake release unit on
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The internal brake release unit is equipped with
buttons for controlling the axes brakes. The buttons
are numbered according to the numbers of the
axes.
If the robot is not connected to the controller, power
must be supplied to the connector R1.MP according
to the section
Supplying power to connector R1.MP
.
1
Note
The IRB 8700 has two R1.MP connectors: R1.MP-
A and R1.MP-B. How to supply power to the con-
nectors is described in
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