Confused

[Terry Wade]

Last week I had an issue with my Nice Cut 100 watt laser, the emergency stop switch failed. I ordered a new switch and installed it expecting the laser to come back to life but it didn't. I have taken my volt-ohms meter and traced power through the machine. I have power coming into the machine, I have power through the breaker on the machine, I have no power at the emergency switch I just installed. Before I had power coming to the emergency switch but not on the downstream side of the switch, the contacts in the switch had gone bad and switch was extremely hot. I don't understand why I have no power to the emergency switch now. What else do I need to look for? I thought about the power supply but I expect it to be downstream of the emergency switch so I don't think that is the problem. Any ideas?

Thanks
Terry Wade :confused:

[Terry Wade]

Finally the mystery is solved. I had a friend of mine come take a look at it just to put another set of eyes on the situation and to see what I wasn't, and we found a couple of loose connections that once tightened gave us power again. I would have never thought that these connections could come loose, I mean that the laser doesn't vibrate that much. But evidently enough to cause the problem. Very good to have the laser back up and running. It was driving me nuts.

[Kev Williams]

Couldn't guess at the number of bad connections in one form or another that have made various parts of my life hell over the years ;)

Glad you got it taken care of!

[Terry Wade]

I can identify with that Kev, this wasn't the first time in my life this type of stuff happened and I have been asked by friends to look at stuff for them. After this I will about once a year pull the plug and grab my screwdrivers and be sure every screw on the machine is TIGHT, no more loose screws, it causes me to have loose screws.