Thanks!
Well, the procedure in the book says to first calibrate the mech aligner with the beam sensor, but that exceeds the X travel. I guess you can just eyeball it off the nozzles and then use trial and error. While poking around on the machine, I found out the whole rear feeder plate was loose! I'm guessing they had this off to swap something before selling me the machine. But, there is no offset for the rear feeders, the mech aligner offset was out of range, too.
The first reason I couldn't initialize the program was that you need to set the head for mechanical aligning to IC, not standard. (Maybe others work, too.) Isn't AANC an auto nozzle changer? I don't have that, or vision, or Z. I have jaws on all 3 heads. The head offsets are all consistent to some reference, but the beam sensor probably was moved at some time, so they no longer align to that. I'm fixing that offset in small steps.
I don't think you can teach it with the nozzle directly, it wants the beam sensor to be used for all coordinate entry except feeder teaching, which works off the camera.
Anyway, I set head 2 for IC, and removed the jaw chuck. (Right now, head 3 has a tiny nozzle in it and won't pick up anything bigger than a flea. Since I won't be placing fleas, I'm going to make a better nozzle for big chips, and remove the jaws but keep the chuck body on there, I'm sure it helps keep the nozzle holder centered.) I moved the aligning station to a place where the beam sensor could get to the center, and the whole thing worked in general. Not perfect alignment, but it made it through all the steps without croaking. I think I'll put the aligner station back and figure the offsets to it from nozzle 3.
I'll have to learn how to use the CALIB utility.
There's so much the manuals don't cover!
Thanks,
Jon
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