IronReb
Stainless
- Joined
- May 26, 2011
- Location
- Shreveport/Louisiana USA
Hope some one can help narrow down this problem.The machine is a 1999 Haas SL30.About a month ago everything was fine and dandy then out of the blue in the middle of the day I got a turret fault alarm,noticed that when the turret indexes to the next position it takes a bit longer for the turret to lock into position,if it takes a bit to long that when the turret fault alarm pops up.
After about 20 minutes of OHH Crap it cleared up and ran fine till this last week.Machine will run fine all day then out of the blue the same problem comes back,the turret will index to the next position and stall before locking into place which pops the alarm.I can go around to the back of the machine and manually work the solenoid and get her to work enough to do my job but it's still lagging on locking the turret,just not enough to pop an alarm and has got pretty regular now.
On a side note,the A axis (turret index motor) will hummm ever so often and the A axis load meter flickers load of 3-6%.I can index turret and stop that for a bit,but it will still come back from time to time.Had a local repair guy look at it today and he's thinking it's something with the A axis encoder causing it to error on me.The guy is a good mechanic but has never been into a Haas turret so I am kinda worried about letting him guess his way into it.
Any Haas users ever have this issue?
One more thing with this model,about every six months or so I have to untighten the shcs holding the turret on and realign the tool pockets to X axis center line by .006"-.010" to keep my tools on center line,is that normal?
After about 20 minutes of OHH Crap it cleared up and ran fine till this last week.Machine will run fine all day then out of the blue the same problem comes back,the turret will index to the next position and stall before locking into place which pops the alarm.I can go around to the back of the machine and manually work the solenoid and get her to work enough to do my job but it's still lagging on locking the turret,just not enough to pop an alarm and has got pretty regular now.
On a side note,the A axis (turret index motor) will hummm ever so often and the A axis load meter flickers load of 3-6%.I can index turret and stop that for a bit,but it will still come back from time to time.Had a local repair guy look at it today and he's thinking it's something with the A axis encoder causing it to error on me.The guy is a good mechanic but has never been into a Haas turret so I am kinda worried about letting him guess his way into it.
Any Haas users ever have this issue?
One more thing with this model,about every six months or so I have to untighten the shcs holding the turret on and realign the tool pockets to X axis center line by .006"-.010" to keep my tools on center line,is that normal?