Kevin Wilkins
Cast Iron
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2003
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
My TM-1 is acting up. For a while now when I start up I've been zeroing the machine in single axis mode to keep from getting a "Y Axis Drive Fault" error message. Sometime I get one in sigle axis zeroing but I can clear the alarm and try again and it's been OK.
The Haas techs came out back when that first happened and it's not a loose screw on the Y axis as the value at which the machine zeros is always within the very small tolerance range. They thought the encoder on the moter might be crapping out and as those are expensive, advised waiting until it totally died.
So tady suddenly while a program was running the machine stopped dead with the fault 162 Y Axis Drive fault. Bummer. I was able to clear the error and get the machine back and running but while jogging in the Z axis, I suddenly got the Y Axis Drive Fault!
I check the Y axis spindle in emergency off and I can turn that easily by hand, so the motor isn't binding.
Anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
The Haas guys are going to come out when they are in Berlin next and they think it might be a fault on one of the boards maybe... I hope it's not the friggin' motor.
Thanks for any help in advance!
The Haas techs came out back when that first happened and it's not a loose screw on the Y axis as the value at which the machine zeros is always within the very small tolerance range. They thought the encoder on the moter might be crapping out and as those are expensive, advised waiting until it totally died.
So tady suddenly while a program was running the machine stopped dead with the fault 162 Y Axis Drive fault. Bummer. I was able to clear the error and get the machine back and running but while jogging in the Z axis, I suddenly got the Y Axis Drive Fault!
I check the Y axis spindle in emergency off and I can turn that easily by hand, so the motor isn't binding.
Anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
The Haas guys are going to come out when they are in Berlin next and they think it might be a fault on one of the boards maybe... I hope it's not the friggin' motor.
Thanks for any help in advance!