Electronics Forum | Mon Jun 12 23:52:58 EDT 2017 | aemery
Don, either you have a faulty park sensor or much more likely the vision gantry Y axis is not reaching the sensor. Possible issues, one of the two VY drivers cards is failing; one of the VY forcer motors (air bearings) is failing; to much air leakin
Electronics Forum | Sat Jul 16 18:24:11 EDT 2016 | aemery
Scratches do not necessarily mean bad! Usually the forcer motor fails before a platen. The motors become weak or don't evenly distribute the supplied air, which causes them to tilt and drive into the platens. Mechanical misalignment of the VY forcer
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 26 21:56:53 EDT 2004 | pdeuel
The camera is not driven from the motor cards. The camera is attached to what is called a forcer. For the Y axis there are two of them. One is wired backwards from the other. one of the forcers is connected to a flex chanell for the air and electrica
Electronics Forum | Mon Sep 25 12:50:42 EDT 2006 | chris g
Daxman, The diagnostic results didn't look very pretty. Especially on the vision x standard deviation. Any time there is an asterisk, that is a bad thing. The failure number for all axis, excetp theta, is .0002. Could need more air flow to the x
Electronics Forum | Mon Jul 30 17:32:34 EDT 2007 | chrisgriffin
When you teach the "teach boardstop Y" make sure the camera is seeing the leading edge of the board and not too close to the rails. It should calculate the pre-stop position correctly. I assume you have thoroughly checked the sensor. Also check th
Electronics Forum | Tue Aug 16 22:51:06 EDT 2016 | aemery
Sorry I didn't catch your message sooner! 20k is way to much. The odds of you having 3 bad platens and 3 bad forcer motors would be very unlikely, unless the machine was sitting outside or something. If it is a 10 year old AP then I assume it must
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 11 17:49:11 EST 2004 | pdeuel
We are having a problem with our AP-24x printer. When the vacuum motor spins up we get a 60 hz buzz into the DC drivers for the forcers and the stencle wiper. We also indicate a main power drop from 115 vac to 80 vac. The vacuum motor checks out good
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 28 19:28:54 EDT 2017 | aemery
Giao, These style of MPM's use stepper motors, but no feedback like an encoder or a resolver. In other words all axis positions are assumed after "Reset" of the machine. Because of this style of drive system there is the potential for the vision ga
