Seaman
Aluminum
- Joined
- Nov 25, 2009
- Location
- Ronceverte, WV
I've owned FADAL's for more than a decade and haven't experienced this yet, hope someone can help me out.
Issue: Perform normal cold start, go to part home position and the machine doesn't move and goes into restart. CS menu comes back up. This is going to be difficult to walk through, but I'll try to do a thorough description. After the fault, if you go straight into jog mode, there is a following error building up. No movement though. If you move the axis, it jumps and then moves. So the commanded move is processing in the CPU, but the axis isn't moving. This is even after a reboot. Swapped CPU board, program module, removed expanded memory, installed new power supply, re-seated all boards, confirmed all voltages. Nothing has changed.
Here's the kicker, after the machine warms up, or runs for some time, it operates just fine. If you run the machine for a good day, it will fire right up the next morning. Let it sit a week, then it won't start up for 10-15 minutes of jacking around. It's like something is needing a recharge to function properly. Only thing I've experienced is the battery on the CPU board. This one is less than 3 yrs old and still reading 3.6v. Is there anything else in the drive circuitry that can loose a charge during idle time that would prevent it from working immediately?
In short, all the drives boot up, can CS the mill, and operate manually. It won't go into automatic operation until it "warms" up. This has my factory trained FADAL tech baffled too.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Dave
Issue: Perform normal cold start, go to part home position and the machine doesn't move and goes into restart. CS menu comes back up. This is going to be difficult to walk through, but I'll try to do a thorough description. After the fault, if you go straight into jog mode, there is a following error building up. No movement though. If you move the axis, it jumps and then moves. So the commanded move is processing in the CPU, but the axis isn't moving. This is even after a reboot. Swapped CPU board, program module, removed expanded memory, installed new power supply, re-seated all boards, confirmed all voltages. Nothing has changed.
Here's the kicker, after the machine warms up, or runs for some time, it operates just fine. If you run the machine for a good day, it will fire right up the next morning. Let it sit a week, then it won't start up for 10-15 minutes of jacking around. It's like something is needing a recharge to function properly. Only thing I've experienced is the battery on the CPU board. This one is less than 3 yrs old and still reading 3.6v. Is there anything else in the drive circuitry that can loose a charge during idle time that would prevent it from working immediately?
In short, all the drives boot up, can CS the mill, and operate manually. It won't go into automatic operation until it "warms" up. This has my factory trained FADAL tech baffled too.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Dave