Electronics Forum | Tue Dec 12 04:49:43 EST 2023 | ttheis
Seems like a file was corrupted on the hard drive. Hopefully you have it backed up. We take a hard drive image of every machine on delivery in case of a hard drive failure or corruption.
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 13 14:33:06 EST 2023 | carl_p
I would start by checking the caps on the PC board. I used to have the same machine & they would fail every few years which could cause some random errors to appear on times.
Electronics Forum | Wed Nov 24 13:46:23 EST 1999 | STIMP
HI, I BELIEVE LOOKING TOWARDS MACHANICAL PROBLEMS WANT RESOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS.IT SOUNDS MORE LIKE A SOFTWARE OR MAYBE EVEN YOUR CARD GOING BAD. A MACHINE OF ANY BRAND DOES WHAT YOUR PROGRAM TELLS IT TO.IF YOUR PROGRAM SAYS PULL FROM DEVICE 7 AND YO
Electronics Forum | Fri Nov 19 07:45:59 EST 1999 | Claude Couture
Our Panasert MSH is randomly mixing up the parts placement. About 1 in 10,000 placement will be a wrong part. The wrong part may be any other part present on the feeder carriage. A chip resistor 0805 may be replaced by a minimelf or a sot-23. It is
Electronics Forum | Thu May 01 07:33:19 EDT 2008 | realchunks
Jim, You need to repair or by-pass the cover interlock. The machine thinks it's open and will not procede any further. They all do it, even the new models. Once you get past this warning - you will get the the RESET window - garanteed.
Electronics Forum | Thu May 01 06:35:51 EDT 2008 | kevinjm
Hi Jim, We had a similar problem with an AP-27. You could try to jumper the wires which lead in to the reed switch. Failing that you could swap out the opto module for this, in our machine it's located in rack 2-15. Rgards, Kev.
Electronics Forum | Wed Apr 30 16:00:12 EDT 2008 | tech13108
Hello, We have recently purchased an older MPM via auction and I am trying to get it running but not getting too far. When I power it up it goes thru a boot sequence then a screen appears on the monitor with a "warning cover not closed, close cov
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 05 11:35:58 EST 2008 | dphilbrick
I have been using an Advantek machine for years. It is a manual load and really works good. Rarely do we have problems. When we do its because we got parts from an egineer that dumped a tube of parts out on their desk to get one part and then put the
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 19 16:33:46 EDT 2008 | mac5
If you're having trouble with a specific board, double check your Pattern, Diameter, Color and Scan Area under the 'Mark Data' tab. You can also try setting the Pitch Tolerance to '0' in the machine configuration. Good Luck, Bill
Electronics Forum | Tue Oct 23 23:53:27 EDT 2007 | danielg
I have been had doing surface mount boards for a while and am now looking for a cheap fairly small footprint machine to help get more boards out. The problem is I don't know a lot about pick and place machines and there are so many different kinds s