Canister Bay Components - Stratasys Fortus 900mc User Manual

CANISTER BAY COMPONENTS

The Fortus 900mc system has four operating material bays - 2 model and 2 support. The upper two bays hold
model material; the bottom two bays hold support material. While building, two canisters will be active. An active
canister has material filament loaded to the liquefiers (steady green LED).
• Inactive canisters can be replace without pausing the system.
Each individual canister bay has a material drive block and a drive lever
engage (and disengage) the drive block with the canister. The drive block feeds the filament from the canisters
to the liquefiers.
• The drive block is located above the canister which drives the filament up to the liquefiers.
• The drive block is spring loaded and moves up and down on guide pins. The spring provides
positive pressure for the drive block against the top of the canister.
• The drive block contains a material sensor. The sensor is used to communicate to the system
when material is available to be loaded to the liquefiers.
Figure 2-17:
There is one colored LED light above each canister. The LED indicates the canister condition for each bay
(Figure 2-16):
• Green – Steady. Material filament has been loaded into the liquefiers. You cannot remove the
canister when the LED is a steady green.
Green – Flashing (Ready state). Filament has been fed into the canister drive block but is not
•
loaded into the liquefiers. You can unload canisters if necessary.
• Red – Steady. The canister is empty. You can unload the canister if necessary.
• Red – Flashing. The canister has a load failure or a smart-spool-chip read/write failure. You can
unload canisters if necessary.
• Off. No canister is present, or the canister is present but the filament has not been fed into the
canister drive block.
Drive Block Lever
LED Indicator
Drive Lever
(Figure
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2-17). The drive lever is used to
Drive Block