Jim Bennett
03-05-2012, 9:23 PM
About 2 weeks ago, the brake on my Sawstop activated when I was turning on the saw (blade was not moving). I took it into my local woodworking store and they contacted Sawstop and then sent in the brake to Sawstop. I just heard from Sawstop today and, after downloading the data from the brake, they said:
"the most likely reason that the brake activated was due to electrical noise in the contactor relay assembly... The current brake cartridge software (rev13 - serial number end in -D13) has a fix to avoid future incidents."
After doing a Sawmill Creek search, I see this has been mentioned before in previous threads. However, I do want to commend Sawstop for their customer service that got back to me quickly and are sending me a replacement brake.
The other thing I learned: My local woodworking store was out of stock on the brakes except for one marked "demo". So I bought the demo brake in order to keep working. Yesterday I was cutting some tenons and the saw shut down. If I turned off the power, the computer would do the diagnostics, the green light would come on, and the saw would work again . . . for about a minute. Needless to say this was kind of frustrating. I learned from Sawstop that the demo brakes are not supposed to be sold and are programmed to only let the saw run for 60 seconds. Amazing how much is packed into that little brake system.
"the most likely reason that the brake activated was due to electrical noise in the contactor relay assembly... The current brake cartridge software (rev13 - serial number end in -D13) has a fix to avoid future incidents."
After doing a Sawmill Creek search, I see this has been mentioned before in previous threads. However, I do want to commend Sawstop for their customer service that got back to me quickly and are sending me a replacement brake.
The other thing I learned: My local woodworking store was out of stock on the brakes except for one marked "demo". So I bought the demo brake in order to keep working. Yesterday I was cutting some tenons and the saw shut down. If I turned off the power, the computer would do the diagnostics, the green light would come on, and the saw would work again . . . for about a minute. Needless to say this was kind of frustrating. I learned from Sawstop that the demo brakes are not supposed to be sold and are programmed to only let the saw run for 60 seconds. Amazing how much is packed into that little brake system.