Hi.
I purchased a 1999 VF0e back in March. Overall it has been pretty good to me. However, Pretty much since I got it, I have been getting alarm 123 spindle drive fault. (of course, not when I looked at it before purchasing) I have done some research, and it seems like some other people have had similar issues. Up until last week, I would simply turn the machine off and turn it back on. Sometimes that would work for hours, days, or several weeks with no further issues. Fast forward to last week... I was fighting the thing all day, but could still get it to run. The next day it would not power on at all. I would power the machine on, release the E stop, reset, and the alarm 123 would pop up. reset again and you could hear the spindle drive make a noise, then the alarm would not clear. I had someone else reset it while i looked and the "power fault" light flashes until the reset button is released. I Checked the buss voltage on all of the servo amps and it read 340-350 volts. The parameter/ diagnostics screen showed 350 volts as well. So after checking all of this, I contacted Zaritron:
Zaritron
He was the one walking me through everything listed above to check. He came to a conclusion that it was 90% chance a bad spindle drive with a small possibility of it being something with the servo amps. He recommended I send back the drive and all 4 servo amps. I did that. He said he put the drive on the machine and it was faulty. He put the servo amps on the machine and said they were 100% functional, but recommended a refurbishing of each one to replace capacitors and clean out the 20 years of dust/ debris. I agreed that was probably a good idea. So I disconnected everything, labeling all wires before doing so, so that i knew exactly where they went to put everything back together.
I got everything back from him today. connected everything 100% exactly where it was before.
Turn the machine on, and I get the same alarm when hitting reset and you can hear the spindle drive making the same noise when the reset button is pressed. Shut the machine off, opened the electrical cabinet, turned it back on again. This time upon hitting reset I heard a lour "POP" noise. Looked in the back, the fuse orange light was lit up on the X servo amp.
Any ideas of things I should check/ try? I'm no expert on fixing machines by any stretch, but I'm stumped I have not turned anything on since and killed power going to it.
I purchased a 1999 VF0e back in March. Overall it has been pretty good to me. However, Pretty much since I got it, I have been getting alarm 123 spindle drive fault. (of course, not when I looked at it before purchasing) I have done some research, and it seems like some other people have had similar issues. Up until last week, I would simply turn the machine off and turn it back on. Sometimes that would work for hours, days, or several weeks with no further issues. Fast forward to last week... I was fighting the thing all day, but could still get it to run. The next day it would not power on at all. I would power the machine on, release the E stop, reset, and the alarm 123 would pop up. reset again and you could hear the spindle drive make a noise, then the alarm would not clear. I had someone else reset it while i looked and the "power fault" light flashes until the reset button is released. I Checked the buss voltage on all of the servo amps and it read 340-350 volts. The parameter/ diagnostics screen showed 350 volts as well. So after checking all of this, I contacted Zaritron:
Zaritron
He was the one walking me through everything listed above to check. He came to a conclusion that it was 90% chance a bad spindle drive with a small possibility of it being something with the servo amps. He recommended I send back the drive and all 4 servo amps. I did that. He said he put the drive on the machine and it was faulty. He put the servo amps on the machine and said they were 100% functional, but recommended a refurbishing of each one to replace capacitors and clean out the 20 years of dust/ debris. I agreed that was probably a good idea. So I disconnected everything, labeling all wires before doing so, so that i knew exactly where they went to put everything back together.
I got everything back from him today. connected everything 100% exactly where it was before.
Turn the machine on, and I get the same alarm when hitting reset and you can hear the spindle drive making the same noise when the reset button is pressed. Shut the machine off, opened the electrical cabinet, turned it back on again. This time upon hitting reset I heard a lour "POP" noise. Looked in the back, the fuse orange light was lit up on the X servo amp.
Any ideas of things I should check/ try? I'm no expert on fixing machines by any stretch, but I'm stumped I have not turned anything on since and killed power going to it.