Hi guys, I have a faro platinum and I'm determined to repair this myself and share possible repair methods so far I have managed to get to the main joint or second axis encoder, we sort of, it's hard to determine how they joined the two halves it looks to be adhesive although I don't think it would be wise to separate them at this point for fear of throwing off a calibration of some kind?
so down to my theory of why they fail it can be down to three failure modes as far as I'm concerned.
1, the first one being contamination on the encoder glass
2, fracture of the encoder glass
3, actual sensor failure possibly due to emitter being burned out due to age or esd damage
Please see pictures below, I will try some social engineering tomorrow to determine how faro separate the encoder joints, although I don't think they will share as its a pretty good earner for them £2500 a pop. failing that I may machine some access to get to the sensor PCB without separating the arm joint and get some cleaning done, looking at there patents it looks like a reflective bassed encoder disk vs the more traditional through disk type, so microscope may be required for checking and cleaning...
if anyone has any info about these this would be most helpful, as they are becoming more attainable for individuals especially ones with the classic encoder faults.
Please ignore goblin foot
so down to my theory of why they fail it can be down to three failure modes as far as I'm concerned.
1, the first one being contamination on the encoder glass
2, fracture of the encoder glass
3, actual sensor failure possibly due to emitter being burned out due to age or esd damage
Please see pictures below, I will try some social engineering tomorrow to determine how faro separate the encoder joints, although I don't think they will share as its a pretty good earner for them £2500 a pop. failing that I may machine some access to get to the sensor PCB without separating the arm joint and get some cleaning done, looking at there patents it looks like a reflective bassed encoder disk vs the more traditional through disk type, so microscope may be required for checking and cleaning...
if anyone has any info about these this would be most helpful, as they are becoming more attainable for individuals especially ones with the classic encoder faults.
Please ignore goblin foot