Originally Posted by raps  Machine: 1999 Fadal 4020 with 15k Spindle.
The machine has sat for over a month waiting for a servo drive. I finally installed last week and set the machine up to run its first job. About 15 minutes into the cylce the spindle just stopped (Error #8 Motor Overload) and has not wanted to come on again. I have tried the following to try and figure this out:
- Cleaned sensor at spindle
- Found a rely in the Air Pressure board out causing the AP light (low air pressure) to stay lite; changed that yet spindle does not start.
- Checked the voltage on my AMC spindle drive, everything seems to be in order.
- Double checked all my wires (maybe looase) on my axis cards and control board. Nothing.
I power this machine up,
I cold start,
I then proceed to S500M3 (and many other speeds have been tried), and the machine looks like it wants to go (I hear air going to the spindle), yet after a few seconds it kicks into to e-stop; Motor Overload.
Has anyone got any suggestions. Tomorrow I will try and swap my spindle drive, yet I am not convinced that this will help.
Help Please... |
This might sound silly or simple, but go into your card case and make sure all the bullet connectors are plugged in.
when ours was shipped one of the bullet connectors on card #14 came undone and I had the same errors. the spindle would try to run the we would get error #8
the tech told me that card #14 runs the spindle something, we checked it was undone powered down plugged in and it worked fine.. well except for a new issue that we found last night something totally unrelated.
Delw