Ox
Diamond
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2002
- Location
- Northwest Ohio
I have a Total Control Products - Quickpanel Jr, HMI on a transfer machine that we retooled 25 yrs ago. We hardly ever run it anymore, and we got a hot job a few days ago, and when I went to fire it up, I found many spots in the touchscreen that don't want to co-operate.
At first I found that if I was up in the corner of my main target - that I could get it to latch in, but today it REALLY fought us, and I am scared that we may not get it to light up again?
When we finally got it to latch in today - I had just put a heat light looking at the screen, and my help kept pushing on it full time too, and shortly he got it. Well, after he left, I put the light back on it to see if that was going to be the key, but after some time on the light - it's not seeing my "touch", so maybe heat didn't help?
It's prolly not less than 60* where it sets.
It comes out of "screen saver" mode right away (touch) and much of the "buttons" area still works OK, but it's not perfect elsewhere, but certainly has a "hole" in it where we regularly push. It's beena year since we ran this last, and I don't know anything about it acting up before.
Worst is - I don't know how to cheat it? I mean - it's not like it feeds an actual INPUT on the PLC that I can put some other means of input to. I am pretty sure that it would just actuate an internal register - right?
Anyone have any experience with this?
Any work-arounds?
I haven't tried taking it out of the machine and tossing in the snowbank yet....
I just received the parts on Wednesday, and already the customer is freaking out that I won't have them all done by this Wed. Really hoping to not have to fetch a new touchscreen this week!
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox
At first I found that if I was up in the corner of my main target - that I could get it to latch in, but today it REALLY fought us, and I am scared that we may not get it to light up again?
When we finally got it to latch in today - I had just put a heat light looking at the screen, and my help kept pushing on it full time too, and shortly he got it. Well, after he left, I put the light back on it to see if that was going to be the key, but after some time on the light - it's not seeing my "touch", so maybe heat didn't help?
It's prolly not less than 60* where it sets.
It comes out of "screen saver" mode right away (touch) and much of the "buttons" area still works OK, but it's not perfect elsewhere, but certainly has a "hole" in it where we regularly push. It's beena year since we ran this last, and I don't know anything about it acting up before.
Worst is - I don't know how to cheat it? I mean - it's not like it feeds an actual INPUT on the PLC that I can put some other means of input to. I am pretty sure that it would just actuate an internal register - right?
Anyone have any experience with this?
Any work-arounds?
I haven't tried taking it out of the machine and tossing in the snowbank yet....
I just received the parts on Wednesday, and already the customer is freaking out that I won't have them all done by this Wed. Really hoping to not have to fetch a new touchscreen this week!
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Think Snow Eh!
Ox