D Dubeau
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Jan 29, 2007
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
We have a VF5 here that's starting to become a bit problematic to use, and was wondering if anybody else has had, or heard about these issues before to point us in the right direction to fix them. We had a Haas tech out a couple months ago, but were unable to replicate the problem when he was here, so it was fruitless. It started acting up again today, and I managed to get some video of it and sent to the HFO, but it's not enough to figure out the issue they say. Randomly throwing parts at it is not a direction we'd like to take...
The cycle start button becomes unresponsive, but the control "beeps" as if it was pressed. It will do that with other buttons as well, but the cycle start seems to be the most problematic and what I captured today. Sometimes while setting up jobs, it will beep when you press buttons such as tool offset measure, part zero set, or keying in numbers to shift an offset, but won't register what you pressed. For example picking up the edge of a block and pressing part zero set won't do anything, but the control will make the "beep" when you press the button. Obviously this can become a problem if you're not paying attention.
The other issues are
-The remote jog handle no longer works. It started becoming problematic last year, and was shutting off the spindle during jog moves, and now is just completely unresponsive. Being a VF5 this really sucks for setting up jobs.
-Sometimes while manually jogging with the MPG it is intermittent and notchy. It will jog a bit, stop, then continue etc. Very annoying, and when it starts doing that almost unusable.
-The last and most troublesome is that while toggling between x,y,z jog directions in hand jog mode on the control it will suddenly start moving in the direction you pressed as if its on jog lock or the button is stuck down but it's not. If you switch to a different direction it will start moving in that direction too. Jog lock is NOT toggled on the control, nor was the button pressed. The speed it takes off is slow and not related to which resolution of jog distance you've set, thankfully... Obviously this presents a dangerous situation while setting up jobs, and thus far has cost me an edge finder, another tool, and a vise jaw.
Operation while running programs off of a USB is flawless, and the machine operates as it should. Thankfully we're not super busy and can schedule work through the other machines we have, but have a looming 4thaxis production job that we're looking to run in it long term and would like it fixed before that.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Dan.
The cycle start button becomes unresponsive, but the control "beeps" as if it was pressed. It will do that with other buttons as well, but the cycle start seems to be the most problematic and what I captured today. Sometimes while setting up jobs, it will beep when you press buttons such as tool offset measure, part zero set, or keying in numbers to shift an offset, but won't register what you pressed. For example picking up the edge of a block and pressing part zero set won't do anything, but the control will make the "beep" when you press the button. Obviously this can become a problem if you're not paying attention.
The other issues are
-The remote jog handle no longer works. It started becoming problematic last year, and was shutting off the spindle during jog moves, and now is just completely unresponsive. Being a VF5 this really sucks for setting up jobs.
-Sometimes while manually jogging with the MPG it is intermittent and notchy. It will jog a bit, stop, then continue etc. Very annoying, and when it starts doing that almost unusable.
-The last and most troublesome is that while toggling between x,y,z jog directions in hand jog mode on the control it will suddenly start moving in the direction you pressed as if its on jog lock or the button is stuck down but it's not. If you switch to a different direction it will start moving in that direction too. Jog lock is NOT toggled on the control, nor was the button pressed. The speed it takes off is slow and not related to which resolution of jog distance you've set, thankfully... Obviously this presents a dangerous situation while setting up jobs, and thus far has cost me an edge finder, another tool, and a vise jaw.
Operation while running programs off of a USB is flawless, and the machine operates as it should. Thankfully we're not super busy and can schedule work through the other machines we have, but have a looming 4thaxis production job that we're looking to run in it long term and would like it fixed before that.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Dan.
