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Troubleshooting, Maintenance & Installation

Maintenance Procedures

The most basic maintenance should be obvious: keep it clean. Clean off the chips, wipe down the table, sweep the floor, etc..

Clean the filters over the cabinet and console cooling fans. Electronic parts don't like heat.
If filters are torn or missing, replace them. Electronic parts don't like oil, dirt, chips, or any mixture of the three.
Clean the chips from the way covers, especially if you have flexible (bellows or rolling blind type) covers. If you let the chips build up they will obstruct axis movement and cut up the covers, allowing coolant, chips and debris onto your ways.
Sweep the chips off the floor, so you will be willing to walk all the way around the machine now and then. Then walk around and inspect for cut/torn way covers; cracked conduit; cables with cut or damaged insulation; etc..

How To Back Up Configuration and Parameters

How to Clean Servo Drive Logic Power Connection

This procedure is recommended every 2-3 years for all M10, M20, M40, M50, M60, M39 and early M400 controls. This will fix and/or prevent intermittent jerks and "full power w/o motion" and "position error" stalls.

Troubleshooting

Position Loss Troubleshooting

Tips and procedures for isolating position loss issues, including mechanical slippage, encoder failures, and programming errors.

Installation and Field Modification

How To Swap Compact Flash Cards

How to Swap a SERVO1 or QUADDRV servo drive

How to Remove and Replace a PC104-bus CPU7 board

How to Replace the LCD backlight tube in an original M400

How To Wire a DC Motor Cable MS Connector

Convert a 4-axis control from 24VDC clamp to 120VAC clamp

This procedure is needed if you have a pre-2002 4-axis control, wired for a rotary table with a 24VDC clamp solenoid coil, and you want to use a current Centroid rotary table which has a 120VAC clamp solenoid.

Convert a 1993-1994 M40 control for programmable spindle speed

This diagram shows wiring connections to convert an early 1994 Supermax M50 to use a GS3 inverter and programmable spindle speed, using the SPINOVER board connected to the original 15/15 PLC.

This conversion could also apply to 1997-2001 M39 controls which used the same PLC board.

Replace a DC3IO with a DC3IOB

This procedure explains issues you may encounter if you need to replace the DC3IO combined servo drive and PLC unit in an existing control with the newer (2009 and later) DC3IOB unit.

Installing a new MATX power supply in a 2004-2010 Uniconsole

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