Hi, I'm Jason with Tormach. We have a quick tip video for you guys today.
It's possible for your Tormach machine to get stuck in the reset condition.
This is something we can real quickly resolve. So we'll just go ahead and walk you
through that procedure. So as you can see, we're working on a PCNC 440. When I
tried to reset this machine, I'm gonna go ahead and press reset again, it gives us
an error message saying that the machine cannot be brought out of the reset
condition. The most common cause of this problem is going to be a limit switch,
whether the machine is sitting on a limit switch currently, or you know a
more rare scenario would be that the limit switch is starting to fail. So what
we're gonna do is just kind of give the machine a quick look. You can see that
our z-axis is all the way up, our Y is all the way to the back, our X is also
jogged all the way over the limits, and we look on our status page, here you can see
that our limits, which are displayed with a couple different LED lights. We have an
XY limit on this PCNC 440, and we have a Z limit, and our X&Y lights are
illuminated. So that's telling us that the machine is seeing an input from our
limit switch. So we're probably sitting on one of the switches. If your machine
is sitting in the center of the travels, if it's sitting right out in the middle,
and you still see your limit switch lights turned on, at this point we may
need to start troubleshooting the limit switch to see if it has failed. You can
reference your manual for procedures and how to do this or if you
need further assistance you can contact technical support. In this scenario
we're gonna go ahead, and you can see we're sitting all the way on the back,
and kind of in the corners of travel. So we're gonna jump to our settings page.
and we can have our enabled limit switches button here. We're gonna go
ahead and uncheck that box. This gives us a warning message stating that
it's gonna change how the machine references and that you can temporarily
disable these to jog the machine off a limit switch, and some other useful
information for you. So just go ahead and say OK. At this point we can hit reset
and the machine should come out of that reset state. So we're gonna jog the
machine just gonna kind of jog it down off of the switches. We're gonna check
our status page. We can use the F1 key for a shortcut. And if we look now our X,Y,
limit light is turned off. So we know that we've
successfully pulled a machine off of that switch, and we should be able to
re-enable those switches and then bring the machine back to its normal
referencing state. I'm going to go ahead and re-enable our limit switches, and
then we can reference the machine. So you can see we got extra...we always reference
Z first, and then we do Y, and X, and then the machine will come out. One thing to keep
in mind while you're doing this, and looking at your specific machine at home,
is the limit displays may change depending on what kind of machine you
have, so whether you have an 1100 with a door switch on an
enclosure. Just depending on the machine and the accessories the display will
change a little bit here, but it all functions the same, whether you're on an
1100 or a 15L or any of our machines. So at this point now
you can see that our machine is out of the reset condition. We've re-referenced
all the axes, so we're ready to go ahead and start making some parts. In the
scenario that your limits which is actually failing and you're unable to
get those status lights to turn off, we can run the machine with the limit
switches disabled. It does change how the machine is going to be referenced so
we'll just kind of quickly show you how to work through that as well. So in this
scenario we're going to go ahead and assume that our limit switches failed so
we'll want to do is just jog the machine to the corners of travel where it
would normally reference. We want to jog with Z all the way up, and while you're
doing this you have to keep in mind that your limit switches aren't active and
aren't working, so you the controller is gonna ignore them. So we just want to jog
it and you can visually look at your switches and see that you're getting
real close to them. At this point, when we reference the machine, it's not
going to jog any of the axes, it'll just reference where it's currently sitting.
So this gives you that ability to run the machine even with a failed limit
switch, so you can keep your shop running, and keep your machine productive while
you're waiting for those parts to be replaced. Thank you guys for watching. I hope you
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