233 Jog Handle Cable Fault

[Machineit]

I have a 1996 VF-2. Yesterday it threw a fault, 233 Jog Handle Cable Fault, and it crashed a center drill into a piece of aluminum. No big deal, cleared it and it worked fine.

Today it threw the fault again, but no crash just shut off the servos. This time just after I was jogging the table. Cleared it again and found no problem. Then a few minutes later it threw the fault while running a program.

The cable has not been harmed of moved, so could this be the jog handle encoder going bad?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[KenFoulks]

Yes, the jog encoder could be going bad. The encoder cable from the SKBIF to the Mocon may also be failing.