Andy Evans
01-06-2014, 9:50 AM
Hi all,
I'm not able to get my Spirit to boot and saw some good advice being offered here previously and thought I'd give it a shot.
The issue seems to be with the x-axis. When I switch the machine on, it will boot normally up to the point where it starts to move the x-axis, then it will travel for about 3cm and stop, then nothing else happens. The same thing happened about a year ago, but after some basic cleaning and moving stuff around, it started worked again.
I figured this would be because of a problem with the motion system and checked and cleaned everything, and oiled all bearings. I found that one of the bearings on the tension pulley was pretty badly seized (clicking when rotated), but it became much smoother after I oiled it (but maybe not 100% good). But the problem still persists.
I can boot into the test mode after holding down the auto-focus key and I am able to move the x-axis using this - but the motion looks a little jerky and laboured.
I've checked every test and they are all fine, the limit switches respond as normal.
Could it be this one tension shaft bearing causing the boot process to lock up? It seems strange that it would stop working altogether when presumably its performance must have been poor for a while, and now it moves reasonably fluidly after oiling. Plus, isn't it normal for the unit to display a motor error if the motion system is impaired?
Thanks for any advice. I've called support from the place I purchased it in the UK, but as usual with them, no one is calling me back, and it normally takes a couple of weeks to get an engineer to visit (by which time I will be half out of business! - I've always been forced to fix issues myself in the past due to this).
I'm not able to get my Spirit to boot and saw some good advice being offered here previously and thought I'd give it a shot.
The issue seems to be with the x-axis. When I switch the machine on, it will boot normally up to the point where it starts to move the x-axis, then it will travel for about 3cm and stop, then nothing else happens. The same thing happened about a year ago, but after some basic cleaning and moving stuff around, it started worked again.
I figured this would be because of a problem with the motion system and checked and cleaned everything, and oiled all bearings. I found that one of the bearings on the tension pulley was pretty badly seized (clicking when rotated), but it became much smoother after I oiled it (but maybe not 100% good). But the problem still persists.
I can boot into the test mode after holding down the auto-focus key and I am able to move the x-axis using this - but the motion looks a little jerky and laboured.
I've checked every test and they are all fine, the limit switches respond as normal.
Could it be this one tension shaft bearing causing the boot process to lock up? It seems strange that it would stop working altogether when presumably its performance must have been poor for a while, and now it moves reasonably fluidly after oiling. Plus, isn't it normal for the unit to display a motor error if the motion system is impaired?
Thanks for any advice. I've called support from the place I purchased it in the UK, but as usual with them, no one is calling me back, and it normally takes a couple of weeks to get an engineer to visit (by which time I will be half out of business! - I've always been forced to fix issues myself in the past due to this).