Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 22 08:54:15 EDT 2016 | bobpan
More than likely the encoder scale or read head has an issue. Many times.. oil/dirt/water get on the scale and cause a bad spot or bad area. Try to clean the scale with a lint free cloth and alcohol. You should also be able to see the read head and m
Electronics Forum | Mon Apr 11 06:54:03 EDT 2011 | mosborne1
Wipe off your linear scales and clean your quadalign lense.
Electronics Forum | Mon Nov 26 02:09:55 EST 2018 | bukas
yes I am, today im going to try to load backup image on to HDD. this error occurs before any machine movement, so it might be SW error... at least I hope so
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 20 02:26:11 EST 2018 | bukas
hello everyone, I have this problem with one of my machines. it reports EMER error code: e804 "the scale of X axis can not be detected" has anyone encountered such error before? any idea what could cause it?
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 30 20:35:51 EDT 2020 | erici
Hi all, was wondering if you have any ideas on how to correct the problem we are encountering with our S25 machine. The machine is giving an X-axis counting error at gantry 1. I replaced the x-axis linear reader and the linear scale as well, but st
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 10 13:57:21 EDT 2023 | ttheis
We were able to get the machine to zero after 'scrubbing' the encoder head. We used a piece of paper towel and IPA and slipped it between the head and the scale. We moved it back and forth a few times to clean the head then blew out any remaining dus
Electronics Forum | Mon Jan 15 11:12:08 EST 2007 | jaimebc
I've had experienced this issues here with our GSM's Flex heads. Try this: 1.- Clean your linear scales with alcohol and a lint free cloth. Both the X and Y. This one has fixed the majority of our errors when one of the heads just stops for no apare
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 12 22:50:52 EDT 2022 | superlen
Poly, I've seen the same error occur with our GI-14 when the glass scale encoder is simply dirty. If you bought the machines used, they could have been stored in fairly dirty environment. Just clean the glass scale. (use caution). We use lint free cl
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 20 02:50:30 EDT 2012 | haiae
Thank you for your message. After many trying to find the error I found the cause. The reason is dirty linear scale glass for head one and after clean it the machine can homing easy. I hope this inform may helpful for user who are using contact machi
Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 23 11:37:43 EDT 2010 | flipit
I had 4 of these machines. They are good machines but I have seen this error often. Is the problem only on one head L or R? If so swap electronics L to R and see if it follows. You can even swap the Y motors. The items that could cause this prob
