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Section 4 – Operating the IC-D System
4.1 Introduction
This section provides the information that you need to operate the Insight controller. At this point, the system should
be properly installed and programmed. The Main screen from the Run menu is where system operation takes place. It
is made up of three parts: the Conguration and Strategy bar, the Main Display area in the middle, and the Message box
at the bottom.
4.2 Selecting a Conguration
The Main screen from the Run menu allows you to either select the Conguration to run for the attached spindle, or
it displays the Conguration that has been selected, depending on your setup. If you selected Internal for the Cong
Selection parameter on the Spindle Setup screen, then you are able to select a Conguration from the dropdown
menu that is displayed. If you selected External Discrete or External Binary for the Cong Selection parameter, this
part of the screen becomes a label and displays the Conguration that has been selected externally via the Inputs. The
gure below shows a Run Main screen with the Conguration dropbox available.
Figure 23 - Run Main Screen
The Conguration dropbox contains only those Congurations that are valid for the attached spindle. In other words,
if a Conguration was programmed with parameters outside the capability of the attached spindle, that Conguration
would not appear in the dropbox. The dropbox provides access to all valid programmed Congurations, so if 256
valid Congurations were setup using the ICS Software, all of these would be accessible through the dropbox. The
Congurations that are programmed on the controller’s Quick Setup screen always have the designation Conguration
1, Conguration 2, etc.; The ICS Software may be used to give programmed Congurations names that actually reect
the operation for which they are used.
To select a Conguration from the available dropbox:
1. Press the Run menu button on the Insight controller to bring up the Main screen.
2. Press the Expand key to show the list of Congurations.
3. Scroll to the Conguration you wish to use.
4. Press Enter to put the Conguration into eect.
NOTE: You may also type the number of the Conguration and press Enter after selecting the box to bring up a
particular Conguration. This is particularly useful when there are more than eight Congurations, and you want to
access a known Conguration quickly.
To the right of the Conguration label or dropbox, the strategy type for the particular Conguration is displayed. In the
example shown, the Conguration selected is a Torque strategy.