Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 04 03:54:10 EDT 2008 | aj
Hi all, The cognex card in the GSX failed to boot up during power up. The card displays the dreaded red light on the diagnostics LED. I got a quote from Dek and I think I cold buy a 2nd user machine for the same price. So my question is - can I g
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 06 05:53:47 EST 2020 | richardcargill
First switch on after the holidays and this year it's the Dek265 playing up. On switch on, the screen comes up with "motor comms failure, card 0 axis123 " . On looking at the cards there seems to be a power feed missing ( see attached pict
Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 14 08:48:57 EST 2024 | andrii
hi, I have very very old DEK 265 Lt And I have a problem that Mr. processman described a long time ago. But no one answered him. Maybe someone can help me now? "We have a strange issue with a DEK 265 Lt, it powers up and initialises fine. Camera LE
Electronics Forum | Sun May 02 17:58:21 EDT 2010 | bruceb
When my DEK 265GSX boots I get a vision error1 and am asked to reinitialize. I cannot get into mainenance mode to troubleshoot. DEK told me over the phone that I have a bad Cognex card and it would be $20k to repair. This is crazy, has anyone seen th
Electronics Forum | Sun Jan 16 16:51:23 EST 2022 | silverlead
Chapter 7 - Machine Control of the DEK manual outlines connectivity between the rising table servo node 6 and the NextMove ES card. If you don't have the manual, just PM me. I'm not an expert in DEK repair, but the solution could be as simple as clea
Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 24 05:23:45 EDT 2016 | bukas
hello, DEK wont start and im getting this error message: motor com error, axis 1,2,3 fatal error, reinitialise machine. this happens about 30 sec after BIOSes are copied to shadow ram. euro sys cards are inserted properly and on segment display is s
Electronics Forum | Mon May 03 08:09:04 EDT 2010 | Jeff
Power up your machine and look at the vision card. If it has a red light then there is a problem with it. 20k is way to much to spend to fix this. I've sent out two cards for repairs in the past and got them fixed for $2200 each. If you want more inf
Electronics Forum | Tue Jun 18 11:27:53 EDT 2013 | emeto
When I was at DEK training they suggested to remove and inspect the cards. I think it was every 6 months - it might be depended on how many shifts you work. I personally don't like to do that either, because even on the training there was a problem w
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 30 22:48:17 EDT 2020 | dekhead
MM (MultiMove) cards are in the M19, Motor Control, crate (located front of machine, right side). MM's are the larger cards located on the far right side; X11, X12 and X13 slots (X11 slot is only used in Infinity, empty slot on Horizon / ELA).
Electronics Forum | Tue May 28 12:56:22 EDT 2019 | dekhead
It is a communications failure between the CPU and the Cognex card. Does comms initiate between the 2 cards (flashing green on both)? or does it immediately come up red LED on Cognex? Have you reseated the CPU board as well as the Cognex? Is this a s
