Mechsoldier
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2014
- Location
- Sumner, WA
I have a tree 310, I bought it at auction supposedly broken. I disassembled everything, cleaned the boards, reassembled, and was able to get rid of the E-stop error.
Then I rebuild the coolant pump (or more appropriately cleaned the calcification out of it and reassembled).
Current problems are that the display is sometimes garbled when firing up the machine. If I let the machine stay powered up for an hour or two, the display will fix itself. I figured it was some capacitor problem or something, so I opened up the control box with the display and the controls on it, I measured voltage at the board where it says +15v for CRT and it was only 11v. I flipped the control off and then back on, it instantly went up to 15v and the display works. Sometimes I can fix it by flipping the switch after a warmup period, others it works fine, others I just have to wait.
Secondly, I had to edit the machine settings so that the feed rate override knob turns the rapid down because I kept getting servo errors. It appears that the oil pump isn't working properly, so I have to manually pull up on the plunger to oil the machine. That's fine and all, and I can now see oil on the spindle when it moves up and down, and also on the ways (how is that spelled?), but still get a servo error on any of the 3 axis as well as a axis overtravel. So let me explain, it rapids toward the home in X (which is how I test it since this is dangerous in Y and Z as it's at the end of its travel when going home and I don't want to mess up the ball screws), it gets to X 0.0, overshoots it, throws an alarm, and slowly coasts to stop at about X -1.0.
I haven't been able to figure that out, I've just been upping my feed rates in Bobcad so I can set the knob at 50% and be at the proper cutting feed rate while slowing my rapid down. Please help.
Then I rebuild the coolant pump (or more appropriately cleaned the calcification out of it and reassembled).
Current problems are that the display is sometimes garbled when firing up the machine. If I let the machine stay powered up for an hour or two, the display will fix itself. I figured it was some capacitor problem or something, so I opened up the control box with the display and the controls on it, I measured voltage at the board where it says +15v for CRT and it was only 11v. I flipped the control off and then back on, it instantly went up to 15v and the display works. Sometimes I can fix it by flipping the switch after a warmup period, others it works fine, others I just have to wait.
Secondly, I had to edit the machine settings so that the feed rate override knob turns the rapid down because I kept getting servo errors. It appears that the oil pump isn't working properly, so I have to manually pull up on the plunger to oil the machine. That's fine and all, and I can now see oil on the spindle when it moves up and down, and also on the ways (how is that spelled?), but still get a servo error on any of the 3 axis as well as a axis overtravel. So let me explain, it rapids toward the home in X (which is how I test it since this is dangerous in Y and Z as it's at the end of its travel when going home and I don't want to mess up the ball screws), it gets to X 0.0, overshoots it, throws an alarm, and slowly coasts to stop at about X -1.0.
I haven't been able to figure that out, I've just been upping my feed rates in Bobcad so I can set the knob at 50% and be at the proper cutting feed rate while slowing my rapid down. Please help.