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FANUC Alarm PNT1-280 — TPE wrong type of program:…

Manufacturer wording — TPE wrong type of program:%s
The manual prints placeholders; your controller fills them in with the real group, axis or number.

FANUC PNT1-280 (“TPE wrong type of program:…”): This error should never occur during normal PaintTool operation. First check: Ensure that the teach pendant program is installed on the controller, or contact FANUC or FANUC Robotics service personnel.

Updated 2026-09-17 · LogrobotLM reference

Description

This error should never occur during normal PaintTool operation. In the event that this alarm was posted, PaintTool was making an attempt to read data from a specific teach pendant program but failed because the teach pendant program does not exist, or the file type is not a teach pendant program.

Remedy

Ensure that the teach pendant program is installed on the controller, or contact FANUC or FANUC Robotics service personnel.

Related codes

PNT1-278TPE find/read header errorPNT1-279TPE error reading instructionPNT1-281TPE error closing a programPNT1-282Selected program not found

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