unable to reset drivers

[chadagmsign]

Hey all,
I came in to work this am and was going to move the table and take off the sheet of color core to find out that my drivers will not reset. I did notice yesterday that I was getting more than normal comm errors in between toolpaths and tool changes. I checked both stop button to make sure they was not stuck. restarted computer. restarted shopbot but i am still unable to reset the drivers. Fan on the spindle is on and proxxy swithces are lit up but the control box does not have a readout on display. any help would be greatly appreciated!!.

Forgot to meantion this is a Alpha machine

thanks in advance!!

[steve_g]

Sure sounds like an E-stop is triggered... Might be worth your time to wiggle, pop and reset them several times.

SG

[chadagmsign]

went back and checked e stops again with no luck :/

[Brady Watson]

If you have the older style contactors in the control box, have you tried pushing them in by hand?

-B

[chadagmsign]

would I have to open up the control box in order to do this? if you could be a little more specific on the contactors i can attempt it.

thanks again

[Brady Watson]

Yes - You will want to turn on the power and IF you have the 4 contactors with grey rectangular center 'buttons' push them in until they magnetically 'stick'.

Call SB Support - they can help you.

-B

[steve_g]

2006 era PRT Alpha...

[chadagmsign]

I ended up talking to shopbot on the phone and they walked me through it. Come to find out it was the buttons in the stop box were loose. I was able to take the stop box apart and wiggle the buttons and find the problem.

thanks again!