Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 23 20:13:19 EDT 2016 | ttheis
UPDATE: For anyone experiencing similar issues it looks like it is bad axis control card(s.) It would make sense since that is what the message said... A red "fail" led was overlooked on one of the cards apparently. I had this same issue with anothe
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 22 14:50:11 EDT 2016 | ttheis
A friend of mine has a used gsm1 but when loading up UPS it gives an error indicating it did not receive a request to load the machine model in the allotted time. Photo is attached of the message. Any suggestions what to look at? The machine is runni
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 22 22:42:18 EDT 2016 | ttheis
Apparently the machine is now completing initialization but when attempting to zero axis' it has a time-out waiting to change modes. Machine status page shows an error reading "initialization failure for motion control board."
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 01 19:42:40 EDT 2016 | marcelll
Usually, that type of error is comming from a damage HDD Corrupted sector or something similar You can reload the firmware but don't forget to backup everything, specially the calibration & mapping files
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 20 13:13:20 EDT 2016 | ttheis
Hi Guys, Yesterday one of our two gsm1 machines just stopped moving and let down the board mid-production. The epc computer continued to respond but no messages were displayed when palming up or down. I tried local IO and it said no IO was configure
Electronics Forum | Fri May 06 17:03:03 EDT 2016 | ttheis
A similar issue happened with our second machine the other day. I noticed on both machines that the "BM" light on the sys68k cpu force board goes out when this happens. Does anyone have any insight on what this means?
Electronics Forum | Fri May 06 20:22:02 EDT 2016 | ttheis
I found this in the Force SYS68K CPU-30 manual: ------------ "BM" LED If the CPU board is the current VMEbus master, the green BM LED is lit. This provides the user with a convenient visual indication of the status of the VMEbus. ------------ So th
Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 17 11:13:06 EDT 2008 | daxman
You had mentioned that your volumes will be low? How about the mix? will you be changing over to different products a lot? How many different products will you be running? Will feeder setups be done by the operators or will you have a another departm
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 19 15:29:25 EST 2004 | JB
"Wondering if there's an easy solution to save a product along with component database to disk, and load the product directly from there?" The program that you have on your GSM should be the last known good program right? So why would you want to sa
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 21 06:18:15 EDT 2014 | digar
We had this. The anti-backlash nuts were binding. > We took them apart, chased the threads with a tap > and re-assembled with slightly less pre-load. > Hasn't been a problem since. > We had this. The anti-backlash nuts were binding. > We took t
