Life Fitness E5 Service Manual page 14

Total-body elliptical cross-trainers

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"STRIDE" Blinking - Actuator Duty Cycle is On

The duty cycle is programmed into the unit to prevent the stride actuators from overheating due to overuse of the

product. The duty cycle is defaulted to OFF, but can be turned ON through the Settings Menu. For every second the

motor is running, there will need to be 8 seconds of off time to meet the actuator duty cycle. This feature can be en-

abled to prevent repeated overuse of actuator.

On the E5 cross-trainer there are 6 increments to the stride length and each increment takes 6 seconds of travel time.

Since the Activity Zone controls the stride motors, it can maintain the motor duty cycle to reduce over actuation.

The Activity Zone powers up with the maximum actuation time, entered in settings (45 seconds default), which is the

time the motor is allowed to run before it needs to be shut off to cool down. For every second the motor is active this

timer is decreased by one. For every 8 seconds (default) the motor is OFF, this timer is increased by one up to the maxi-

mum actuation time (45 seconds default).

Every time the Stride keys are pressed the Activity Zone will check the actuation timer to verify there is enough time to

move to the next increment (6 seconds). If there is enough time the motor is activated. If there is not enough time the

Activity Zone will ignore the key press and ﬂ ash STRIDE. STRIDE will blink until the OFF timer has been fulﬁ lled. Key

presses will continue to be ignored and STRIDE will continue to ﬂ ash until there is time to move one increment. If the

motor is running to a position and the opposite direction key is pressed, the timer is again checked to verify there is

enough time. If the new position has not been passed, the motor will continue to the new position and less time will be

required from the actuation timer.

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