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I have a problem with a feeder that will not start up properly. When you 1st turn the feeder on you hear some clciking sounds (index pin poping up and moveing forward and back) When I turn one of my feeders on the index pin pops up but never goes back down and therefore doesn't no perform the forward and back motion. The feeder is now stuck like this untill I remove power from the unit.

All that has happened to the feeder is all connections where removed from the PCB so we could machine a peice out from the front of the feeder and everything placed back in exactly the same place.

Also on this feeder we noticed a part has been added in (see picture) (maybe a DC to DC converter) has anybody seen anything like this and if so could you explain what this is for. I have opened up 4 feeders and this is the only one to have such a mod. "nd attachment show where wires are connected.

Luke

Hi there, is there anybody out there that has any RV4s feeders for sale or know of anywhere or anyone who is selling? I'm fine for the 8mm lanes, it's any other sizes I am looking for?

We put garden gazebos over the top of our machines to keep the light out. I tend not to have problems when its dark, more so when it is light.

In the callibration menu there is an option "Set Center - Camera 1" does anybody know what this option does? I have a problem with my on the fly camera(see my previous post) and setting an offset for the camera seems to do nothing so hopefully this "Set Center" is what I need to do

Has anybody had any sucess withthe on the fly camera offset? I seem to be putting massive offsets in and nothing happening?

Thanks mike, iv had a little play about this afternoon and your correct there is an offset in the factory settings (never wanted to go in there, always thought it returned the machine to factory settings) I'll be trying to fine tune this in the morning.

Thanks again for the help (this forum is amazing!!)

I have a problem with my "on the fly" camera. When the machine takes a picture of the component with the "OTF" camera the image on screen shows the tool is in the dead centre of the component but in the real world it is actually picking towards one side of the component. Everything pictured using the fixed camera is fine.
The only thing I can think of happening between the machine being fine and me having this problem is that the lens of the camera fell off and we had to remove the camera to fit the lens back on and then reposition the camera.
Could this have caused the problem or does anybody have any other ideas of how to fix this problem or even what the cause could be?
Any sudjestions would be helpfull as im at a loss to what is happening

Thanks alot, ill do some searching and see what i can find. Typical its working again now but am sure it wont be too long before it gives up all together

Does anybody know where i can get a replacement FID camera from? Mines seems to have died. All i can get is a light grey image. Any help will be helpful

Thanks for the speedy reply.... What would be the best way for me to reprogram the eeprom? should i read back the data from the eeprom of another feeder unit and reprogram the faulty one with what i have read back?

Has anybody had problems with the addressing of the feeders? i have a feeder that works fine in position H (dip switch set 1=OFF 2=OFF 3=OFF) but in position G (dip switch set 1=ON 2=OFF 3=OFF) the feeder will not work. Iv had the feeder apart and there are no broken cables and the dip switch works fine, anyone have any other ideas to try?

Obviously i can still use the feeder but a little annoying having to move feeders around after setting the job up.

Nice one guys, combination of playing with the settings and picking from a little lower down has sorted things 

Could anybody tell me the original CDF values for a sot23. i think iv changed something but dont know what Every sot23 ends up placed on a slight angle and has to be adjusted with tweezers.
Thanks in advance.

Does anybody know what the "prog rotate" option does in the CDF file. I have played about with it and it doesn't seem to do anything. Ant one have any ideas?

Thanks for the reply, it turns out that the actual motherboard of the pc has failed meaning the port that the ISA board plugs into doesn't open all the time. Have a new motherboard on the way so hopefully this will sort my problems