Electronics Forum | Thu May 20 10:01:23 EDT 2010 | jmw
Just a slight correction....the quad align card is located at the back rear right of the machine (in a cage). If it is a cyber-optics 4c machine....the laser align card is in the front card rack to the far left.
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 23 14:26:52 EST 2008 | operator
I have seen the bad alignment error many times and never had to replace the head for it. It usually has something to do with the laser windows being dirty or cracked. Also it could be your profile settings. Make sure all of these things are perfect b
Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 23 15:13:54 EST 2008 | tbkonrad
It's not the z pickup or profile bot thanks for the help, I think Mike is right. I have used these profiles hundreds if not thousands of times in the past and never had an issue. Also it was different components and different profiles almost every ti
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 09:21:37 EDT 2016 | bobpan
Everytime I have seen an offset like that it was dirt on the quad-align lens.....try cleaning it off with alcohol and a lint free cloth. If this does not fix it....you may have dirt inside the quad align itself. I am assuming you have checked to ma
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 15:13:47 EDT 2016 | bobpan
If there is dust (on the glass) off from the center of the lens it will add it to the part when scanning it and place off. I have ran into this twice.....I fixed it once by breaking the lens on the quad align and blowing it out.....another time I hel
Electronics Forum | Wed May 25 22:32:28 EDT 2016 | stevedc
So, I haven't used my Quad 4C for a while and when I started everything back up to run a new board it appears that the Quad align is in need of calibration. When I pick up a component and do an LAE measurement on it it shows the part center location
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 15:16:28 EDT 2016 | bobpan
oh ya....i forgot....to verify this....turn off all the extents for the parts and just pick them and place them....if they are very close to where they should be then it is the quad align causing the problem....this is how you can verify it. Copy the
Electronics Forum | Thu May 26 17:45:36 EDT 2016 | stevedc
Thanks for the thoughts. I will try a few things tonight so see if I can clean anything from the windows. As always, thanks for your thoughts and time :) BR, Steve
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 09:27:56 EDT 2016 | bobpan
Glad I can help....if you have any other questions...go to my web page @ www.precision-repairs.com Bob
Electronics Forum | Fri May 27 00:18:15 EDT 2016 | stevedc
Soooo.... I started to take the laser off last night to clean it and decided to put it back on to do some more measurements to see if anything obvious turned up and lo and behold it is not good !!! Most likely cause I can think is that you were righ
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