Installation site¶

A rigid table or frame. The arm accelerates its 5.5 kg quickly; a wobbly table shakes and spoils the repeatability. An aluminium profile frame or a solid bench is right.
Clearance. The flange reaches 408 mm from the axis of joint 1 in front of the base and 359 mm behind it, plus the tool, and the elbow swings behind the base when the arm folds (Workspace). Keep a free sphere of about 500 mm around the base with the pneumatic gripper, about 600 mm with the SSG-48 or the MSG, and nothing fragile in it. The simulator shows the sweep of a program before the robot runs it.
Room temperature, dry, dust-free. The base draws air through its fan over the stepper drivers.
The E-stop within reach of the person at the PC, and reachable from where someone would stand to load the robot.
Cables. The power, USB and E-stop cables leave the base at the back; route them so that nothing pulls on them and so that the arm cannot sweep over them.
Pneumatics. If you use the pneumatic gripper, a valve and an air supply at 5 to 7 bar near the base; check your gripper's rating (Pneumatics).
A mains switch within reach on the power supply's mains side, a switched socket strip for example: the stop for when the PC software has frozen (Emergency stop).

The Planning the cell page covers the safety side: who can reach the robot, guarding, and what the software can and cannot stop.

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