I have a 40 taper VF-5 with a Renishaw OMP 40 spindle probe and have been having some issues with it lately. It functions as it should, except when doing a web, pocket, or bore probe cycle. While going through these cycles, during the rapid movements, all the lights on the probe flash at once and the controller beeps until the rapid movement is done.
I can deal with lights and beeps. The thing that frustrates me is that after probing, when rapiding up to do tool change, the lights and beeps come back (yes, after the probe is shut off). To fix this, I simply run another probe cycle and return to Z home at 25% rapid and it seems to do all right. Starting to drive me nuts though so if anyone has any ideas of what could be wrong, I'm all ears.
I've tried replacing the batteries and cleaning the lenses for the optical sensors to no avail.
Thanks for looking!
-Dave