Outputting Fanuc macro variables

[MIL-TFP-41]

I have seen this on a few machines. When I got to output macro values #500 to #999 the numbers that are output makes no sense.

For instance, #545 is equal to 5411.0000 in the machine. When I "punch" the macro values to a memory card, it outputs "G10L85P545(40B5230000000000)"

Is there a parameter setting to get it to output "normal" numbers? The controller is a 30i.

I have seen this on an older 15T controller also, expect it outputs like this: "#545=[25703*65536+63252]/2/67108864"

At least one can follow the math on the 15T. The 30i numbers make no sense.

[Guess_who]

Couldn't you use the DPRNT command? That's how we capture our probe date. 

[Leon82]

The company that installed our probe on the newest mx machine backed up the macro parameters and it looks like yours.

 

Could this be a security thing done by FANUC?

[huskermcdoogle]

Set bit 0 (MCO) of parameter No. 6019 to 1 and see if you get a comment output with the value that is in plain text.  In theory what you are getting right now (per the manual) is a bit-image hexadecimal representation of double-precision floating-point type data.

This is described in the manual under data input/output.