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Chapter 9 Troubleshooting
Overview
The following discussion may help you get your system to work.
Potential problems have been divided into groups as follows:
1. Installation
2. Communication
3. Stability and Compensation
4. Operation
The various symptoms along with the cause and the remedy are described in the following tables.
Installation
SYMPTOM
Motor runs away when connected to amplifier with
no additional inputs.
Same as above, but offset adjustment does not stop
the motor.
Controller does not read changes in encoder position. Wrong encoder
Same as above
Same as above
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CAUSE
REMEDY
Amplifier offset too
Adjust amplifier offset
large.
Damaged amplifier.
Repair amplifier.
Check encoder wiring.
connections.
Bad encoder
Check the encoder signals.
Replace encoder if necessary.
Bad controller
Connect the encoder to
different axis input. If it works,
controller failure. Repair or
replace.
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