:-( Help!

Production is at a standstill....

I have a Gerber Sabre 408 and am having great difficulty in troubleshooting a "spindle i/o error". I send the job out to the sabre, press start and the error comes up. The spindle doesn't start up.

Same day, prior to the error message, the spindle would continue to rotate after a job had finished - while idle. Not with the same speed as during a job but still with good momentum. ???

Anyone out there have some insight? Tech support doesn't seem to know where to go with it.

Production is at a standstill....

I have a Gerber Sabre 408 and am having great difficulty in troubleshooting a "spindle i/o error". I send the job out to the sabre, press start and the error comes up. The spindle doesn't start up.

Anyone out there have some insight? Tech support doesn't seem to know where to go with it.[/QUOTE]

On our fanuc controller we had that come up when the spindle encoder went south. I am not familiar with your setup, but turn the spindle by hand and see if you are reading rpm. our setup is a 5v encoder, so our wiring can not be near ac wiring, or our encoder counts do not add up. THere is a master indexing spot, and then 1024 spots read in quadature for 4096 counts. Something to check.

Our setup also has an error line from the spindle encoder to the plc. If the error line goes low, ( say from no power to the encoder ) we get an error.

we also get an error if our spindle motor encoder and spindle encoder do not match. Usually cable problem, like disconnected.

I hope these ideas are helpful