Hello, everyone!
Nowadays I am working with HEXAGON Dea and during last 3 weeks I started to notice, that sometimes, after switching on a new program, CMM goes into emergency mode. After pressing Motor On it does't give the opportunity to work, due to the fact that it loses its own home position. For example, on the position, where X has to be 0, it shows- minus 5238.93849303232. So, because of that it is impossible to calibrate or to work with machine in such condition. To switch off machine for night used to help, but nowadays this problem starts to appear more often and it becomes worse and worse.
UPD: Unfortunately cleaning of scales didn't help to solve the problem. Machine still loses its home position (I forgot to say, only in X direction). It has 3 legs on both sides, so if to imagine that zero position is near the 3rd leg, now it goes in between the 1st and the 2nd legs, stops there and switches "Emergency stop" in controller box (quite loud sound). The code of mistake is "
Level 3: Axis X error (0x34) Please Reset Emergency".
My questions are- what can be the main problem and how to solve it?
Thank you
We used to have a DEA Epsilon and would often get very similar behavior. We would clean all 3 scales, and reboot. That worked up until one of the scale readers went bad. If you are getting intermittent problems, then it is not the reader --- if the problems are constant (like it NEVER homes) then it may very well be the scale reader. It's easiest to start by cleaning the scales, though. Good luck.
Thank you for your help!
Actually now it never goes home, that is the biggest problem. It also quite often says that tip is deflected... I also think that all data which is got using such machine is incorrect. I will try to clean it now and write about results. Dust bunnies were cleaned 2 months ago.
UPD: Unfortunately cleaning of scales didn't help to solve the problem. Machine still loses its home position (I forgot to say, only in X direction). It has 3 legs, so if to imagine that zero position is near the 3rd leg, now it goes in between the 1st and the 2nd legs, stops there and switches "Emergency stop" in controller box (quite loud sound). The code of mistake is "Level 3: Axis X error (0x34) Please Reset Emergency".
Thank you for your help!
Actually now it never goes home, that is the biggest problem. It also quite often says that tip is deflected... I also think that all data which is got using such machine is incorrect. I will try to clean it now and write about results. Dust bunnies were cleaned 2 months ago.
UPD: Unfortunately cleaning of scales didn't help to solve the problem. Machine still loses its home position (I forgot to say, only in X direction). It has 3 legs, so if to imagine that zero position is near the 3rd leg, now it goes in between the 1st and the 2nd legs, stops there and switches "Emergency stop" in controller box (quite loud sound). The code of mistake is "Level 3: Axis X error (0x34) Please Reset Emergency".