Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 19 09:52:45 EST 2014 | brendansales
Dear Rob, Got to the maintenance menu, under the Motor section, I selected Z motor and tried to initiate motor, there was no movement on the machine and I had the error message as below: F-MOT-MSETDYN Z/12: Position counter dead I suspect that ser
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 13 00:43:06 EST 2014 | brendansales
Centering motor about to fail or has failed. > Centering motor about to fail or has failed. Hey Rdubya, Thanks for your help! Apparently that was not the problem. The Midas head had to be all the way down below the lower locking solenoid. After
Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 11 14:42:49 EST 2014 | rdubya
Centering motor about to fail or has failed.
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 13 09:52:03 EST 2014 | rgduval
Start by getting into the maintenance menu, and manually installing the Servo program for all MOTs. If they install fine, you can check the Z-motor while you're in the maintenance menus. Make sure that the z-locks are unlocked before checking the
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 20 13:25:18 EST 2014 | brendansales
Dear Rob, Thank you for your quick response! There were Z locks on the Midas head area, 2 little solenoids like you mentioned. Previously I had the first error code (F-AXIS-C/9) and after fiddling around, randomly manual unlock the Z locks it came
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 20 13:16:15 EST 2014 | rgduval
Hi, Brendan, It sure sounds like it to me. But, with the Z axis, there could be one other thing to check. On my old TP, there were z-locks...two pistons that pointed sideways around the head travel. Initializing the z-motors did not move the z-
Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 20 13:56:18 EST 2014 | rgduval
Brendan, Unfortunately, I no longer have MYData equipment in my shop (I moved to a new company), so, I can't help with finding part numbers. I do know that you can buy the motor/counter units separately on the open market..and, I think you can buy
Electronics Forum | Fri Oct 16 11:32:03 EDT 2015 | azdback
What is your error code?
Electronics Forum | Fri Sep 18 10:58:04 EDT 2015 | adventurelights
Thanks, have checked the vacuum tube and ribbon cables. They seem to look ok. Theta motor seems to be woking. I'm leaning towards the theta encoder going wanky. Is that possible?
Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 01 15:25:09 EDT 2015 | adventurelights
Which encoder did you replace? The one sitting on top of the midas shaft and below the small board or the one attached t the motor next to it? I don't even know if the first one is an encoder.
