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Long story short. My SMII started running into the pit during a clean only program - I now think it was having a bad day and had a dirty LDS sensor. But in looking for the problem I found the duster was literally only just touching the lane. I had felt the cleaning of the lanes had been poor of late and now I know why. As far as I know no one has reset the duster mid roll and the remaining lanes shown seem to match the roll. I have increased the current (not default) first unwind from 13 to 18 and this now puts the duster on the lane with a little slack in it. (Checked with machine on lane, ready to go). Clearly I will need to check the unwind of the cloth when a new roll is fitted and adjust the default first unwind if needed. However there have been some other odd problems which may be connected and some advice would be appreciated.
A while back I found that I was consistently getting around 15+ lanes worth of cloth left on the roll when the counter reached zero. I thought perhaps the size of the cloth had been increased and/or I was far more efficient at fitting it. (We use Kegel EZcore). I increased the lane count accordingly.
The machine has an intermittent fault of not unwinding the cloth on the first lane of a session, ie brings up the message "duster out" after pressing the red start button. Menu out and re-start usually clears the problem. It only ever does this on the first lane of any session and only once in maybe four sessions. I have investigated this problem and the relevant led on the control module lights every time and the wiring seems AOK so I suspect a motor fault.
Can anyone see a connection between these problems?
Could the failure to unwind be anything other than a failing motor?
If I increase the default first unwind time at the next cloth change do I need to make any other adjustments?
If you've read this far thank you and thanks in advance for any advice
A while back I found that I was consistently getting around 15+ lanes worth of cloth left on the roll when the counter reached zero. I thought perhaps the size of the cloth had been increased and/or I was far more efficient at fitting it. (We use Kegel EZcore). I increased the lane count accordingly.
The machine has an intermittent fault of not unwinding the cloth on the first lane of a session, ie brings up the message "duster out" after pressing the red start button. Menu out and re-start usually clears the problem. It only ever does this on the first lane of any session and only once in maybe four sessions. I have investigated this problem and the relevant led on the control module lights every time and the wiring seems AOK so I suspect a motor fault.
Can anyone see a connection between these problems?
Could the failure to unwind be anything other than a failing motor?
If I increase the default first unwind time at the next cloth change do I need to make any other adjustments?
If you've read this far thank you and thanks in advance for any advice
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