Good afternoon everyone. We have as one of our CMM's, a "ONE" machine and as of late as we crank up the speed of run of any of the proven PCDMIS programs to near 90-100% the machine stops and displays this error, "TR-FG 117, Y Amplitude Error" Any ideas what's going on with this? Usually this is tech support question but we're hoping a "quicker" response then thru the normal tech channels. Thanx.
+1 The scales are probably dirty. This happens at our shop all the time. We have 2 "ONE" machines and both behave exactly as you describe.
Just clean the scales. If it persists, you will have to call service and get them to walk you through resetting the voltage of the scale reader...(DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CLEAN THE READER!)
+1 The scales are probably dirty. This happens at our shop all the time. We have 2 "ONE" machines and both behave exactly as you describe.
Just clean the scales. If it persists, you will have to call service and get them to walk you through resetting the voltage of the scale reader...(DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CLEAN THE READER!)
That's an interesting note for the scales being dirty. This one time in band camp we had some dirty scales, the CMM slammed the Z rail into a 750 pound part fixture and slid it about 12 inches before stopping. This was due to contractors polishing the shop floor, the CMM didn't know where it was when all this took place, as stated from the service tech. I hope it is as simple as dirty scales for ya, but in our case no matter how many times we cleaned everything it never stopped until the tech changed out the card in our controller.
That's an interesting note for the scales being dirty. This one time in band camp we had some dirty scales, the CMM slammed the Z rail into a 750 pound part fixture and slid it about 12 inches before stopping. This was due to contractors polishing the shop floor, the CMM didn't know where it was when all this took place, as stated from the service tech. I hope it is as simple as dirty scales for ya, but in our case no matter how many times we cleaned everything it never stopped until the tech changed out the card in our controller.
I will definitely keep an eye out for that behavior. Hope we don't have that issue.
I just had the same error.
This week I had 5 stops because of the Amplitude error.
I have cleaned everything very properly (axes, scales). Turned down the speed.
Nothing worked, until I cleaned the probes AND the TP200 shank with "bubblegum" from Renishaw.
Now it seems that my problems are gone.
No errors the whole day.
At my previous job, the B&S Global I ran had this issue occasionally until it got so bad I couldn't get through a program. It ended up being the controller card.
It wasn't the scales that was dirty, but the readout that was to "tight".
I had a technician adjusting it, together with the other 2 scales, and now it runs like a charm.
Every Friday I clean the scales. Place the "tower" in one end, and cleans the scale and everything else from the middle to the ende.
Then I move the "tower" to the other end, and repeats the procedure.
I was told that alcohol or stuff like this might wipe of the "gold" on the scale so that they can't be read.
So guys, you where on the right path, but it ended up in a software adjustment.
+1 The scales are probably dirty. This happens at our shop all the time. We have 2 "ONE" machines and both behave exactly as you describe.
Just clean the scales. If it persists, you will have to call service and get them to walk you through resetting the voltage of the scale reader...(DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CLEAN THE READER!)
+1 to this.
Yep, Its 99% of the time a dirty scale. Get some alcohol and a rag and clean it. I think I still have my notes in my email from how to reset too, but I would definitely have a service guy walk you through it
