Lintronic 530/560 issue

[dcsharp]

Hi,

Hoping someone can assist here, we regularly maintain all our own machinery on site. However we have run into a hiccup here concerning the spinner motor (under the polygon mirror). We have had the bearings replaced and now the machine is throwing up errors.

First of all between init 1 and 2 we get a Tako Write error, and later on we get a recorder timeout. Stranger yet the machine is currently outputting film but attempts to cut are producing a recorder timeout error, also sporadically the machine will refuse to output jobs and just through up the same error.

 

[DonBlock]

It's simple, start looking for a new machine. As you have found out, you just can't replace the bearings in such a precision motor and it work. If you were to be able to output films and look at them carefully, I'm sure you would see banding. You could try to find a replacement motor, but the cost may be as much as a replacement. Not to mention that it is going to be a used motor and so the condition and longevity of it would be unknown.

You may actually have to PAY someone who knows what they are doing to fix it for you.....

 

[dcsharp]

Please note whilst we are well familiar with the machine, we did not do the motor work ourselves, this was done by a specialist electric motor repairer. The machine is now cutting fine but producing a wavy result on initial jobs. Holding the connector on the motor is now the only way to get the machine to start so possibly pcb issue.

 

[DonBlock]

While the motor may have been repaired by a motor repair shop, which is what I figured, the precision of the motor has lost it's integrity. I have never seen or heard of these motors being repaired and working correctly. The effect that you have described, wavy result, is a direct result of the motor not spinning smoothly and in balance. If this is the size of machine that you need, I would look for a used one that has a proven good output and keep the one you have for other spar parts.

 

[dcsharp]

Whilst I am enquiring as to what is available second hand here in NZ, we are still playing around with the 560. Output 2 or 3m of perfect film this morning, cut, ran another 2 or 3 small screen print films and cut again. Then ran out 3 more pieces of film, the first one out was wavey, the second and third seps were perfect.

 

[dcsharp]

I highly doubt the fault is mechanical as surely the defects would be at least semi uniform, if something was warped even slightly then surely you'd get at least some form of pattern, but it appears entirely random.
Taking that and the tako error at the start would surely indicate an electrical issue or contact issue between the motor and circuit board (or an issue with the tachometer of course).

Then again I'm not a technician (unless you count how many times we've repaired/serviced the two imagesetters, ctp system, plate and film processors, epson wide format printer and countless computers.... O and that stupid little scrap of paper that states that I am a qualified computer hardware technician... but technically in regards to these machines I am not qualified!!!!!)

 

[dcsharp]

Machine is repaired, thanks for the help!

 

[rbailleu]

what did you do to fix it.

 

[ashokkrjain]

Lino 560 error tako

Lino 560 error tako

Machine is repaired, thanks for the help!

in between init 1 and 2 we get a Tako Write error, and later on we get a recorder timeout.
in lino 560 imagesetter.