First off, I just wanted to let everyone know that I changed my name on here to my real one. You may remember me as "Farley AMF 70/90 XL". Now on to my problem.
My setup is 82-70's SS Chassis Omega Tek conversion no pind. and we have expander boards with Qubica scoring. The combo motors are Nationals - and the sweep motor has a solid state external switch (the white and orange one). Up until now this lane has no problems out of the oridinary, this is my 5th season at this center.
My lane 11 has been acting up for the last week or so. Of course this never happened when I was there, but the description I got from the counter guys was this... When someone would throw a ball on 1st ball, the sweep would go to 1st guard and just sit there. They said the way they got it to run again was to take out the fuse on the outside of the chassis and put it back in and it would run. They said the fingers appeared to be open and that's why they went to the fuse. Sounds like a GPS problem to me, but never happened when I was working.
What DID happen to me Thursday night was this... The machine was interlocked so I hand cranked the table up and the sweep didn't run, just buzzed. Out of curiosity I gave the chassis a bump and the sweep did run, but didn't start again on the next cycle, and still won't. When I bumped the chassis, I saw some arching in the contactor (AB style) the contacts did look worn so I took a known working chassis from the next lane (10) that has the push button Seimens contactor and tried it. Same result. I put the chassis from 11 on 10 and had problems with the sweep stalling, again I noticed arching in the contactor. I found that the screw was missing in the upper contacts, so I put one in. Now the chassis from 11 works fine on lane 10, but 11 still just buzzes. I even got the chassis from lane 12 (which works fine on 12) same result. I got my test cable out, plugged in the table power cable to it and plugged it into the sweep and ran it from the cam switches. The sweep motor runs fine when running off of the table power plug. (I tried this many times just to be sure.) I did the opposite and tried to run the table motor off of the sweep power plug and it won't budge, just buzzes. Next I replaced all of the C1 sockets on the machine, still same result. Next I changed the capacitors, same result. I even swapped the sweep caps. with the table caps. just to further exclude them from this problem. Still no luck. I then replaced the sweep power cable with an all new one. Same result, sweep power plug won't run the sweep or the table motor, but the table power plug will run both motors just fine. To my knowledge......... none of the other employees did anything to "fix" this lane without telling me, but I haven't ruled it out. I think the next thing I'm going to try is put in new wires that go back to the switches in the rear control panel. I hope I've been detailed enough, any ideas? Something I've overlooked? I'm just getting frustrated and wonder if I've forgotten about something obvious. I also wonder if the problems in the 11 chassis were related or caused something else to fail, or if it is just coinsidence.
Charley
My setup is 82-70's SS Chassis Omega Tek conversion no pind. and we have expander boards with Qubica scoring. The combo motors are Nationals - and the sweep motor has a solid state external switch (the white and orange one). Up until now this lane has no problems out of the oridinary, this is my 5th season at this center.
My lane 11 has been acting up for the last week or so. Of course this never happened when I was there, but the description I got from the counter guys was this... When someone would throw a ball on 1st ball, the sweep would go to 1st guard and just sit there. They said the way they got it to run again was to take out the fuse on the outside of the chassis and put it back in and it would run. They said the fingers appeared to be open and that's why they went to the fuse. Sounds like a GPS problem to me, but never happened when I was working.
What DID happen to me Thursday night was this... The machine was interlocked so I hand cranked the table up and the sweep didn't run, just buzzed. Out of curiosity I gave the chassis a bump and the sweep did run, but didn't start again on the next cycle, and still won't. When I bumped the chassis, I saw some arching in the contactor (AB style) the contacts did look worn so I took a known working chassis from the next lane (10) that has the push button Seimens contactor and tried it. Same result. I put the chassis from 11 on 10 and had problems with the sweep stalling, again I noticed arching in the contactor. I found that the screw was missing in the upper contacts, so I put one in. Now the chassis from 11 works fine on lane 10, but 11 still just buzzes. I even got the chassis from lane 12 (which works fine on 12) same result. I got my test cable out, plugged in the table power cable to it and plugged it into the sweep and ran it from the cam switches. The sweep motor runs fine when running off of the table power plug. (I tried this many times just to be sure.) I did the opposite and tried to run the table motor off of the sweep power plug and it won't budge, just buzzes. Next I replaced all of the C1 sockets on the machine, still same result. Next I changed the capacitors, same result. I even swapped the sweep caps. with the table caps. just to further exclude them from this problem. Still no luck. I then replaced the sweep power cable with an all new one. Same result, sweep power plug won't run the sweep or the table motor, but the table power plug will run both motors just fine. To my knowledge......... none of the other employees did anything to "fix" this lane without telling me, but I haven't ruled it out. I think the next thing I'm going to try is put in new wires that go back to the switches in the rear control panel. I hope I've been detailed enough, any ideas? Something I've overlooked? I'm just getting frustrated and wonder if I've forgotten about something obvious. I also wonder if the problems in the 11 chassis were related or caused something else to fail, or if it is just coinsidence.
Charley
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