Originally Posted by
pokey2
Hi Everyone,
I have a Partner 1G that is giving me some trouble. I have read forums, schematics, and called Milltronics and Yaskawa tech support. All of that has led me to ask for help here. Here is how the story starts:
I was cutting some parts and stopped for a break, when I returned to the machine it was in emergency stop mode. I hit reset and it went directly back into emergency stop mode with "Axis excess" error on Z axis along with the Z axis slowly creeping down every time I hit reset. I did some reading and tried holding the reset down to force the machine to move because I had trapped a tool on a vice. This didn't do anything but produce more "Axis excess" and driver fault errors on which ever axis I tried to move. Next, I opened the back to take a look and found an "EF3" fault on the Yaskawa G5. After some research I found that EF3 is external fault on terminal 3. I traced terminal 3 to pin 11 of X out on the card cage. Couldn't really figure out more than that. Next, I had someone hit reset while I watched the Glentek cards. This is where I found the HS/ECB error LED staying on for the Z axis card. Again, I did some reading on what this meant and didn't get to far. I disconnected the two connectors from the Z axis Glentek, booted the machine and still got all errors other than the HS/ECB LED which I expected. I tried swapping out the CR1B relay with no change. I really don't know what to do next, any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks