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ronh55
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RE: Kinetix 5500 won't enable, MSO errors and the drive shows safe torque off

Label is fine for a bench with nobody in reach. The day it gets guards, the relay goes in and the jumper comes out.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Line-fed screw conveyor motor burned out, panel builder skipped the overload

Open the third one before it teaches you the same lesson.

3 weeks ago
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RE: 1769-OB16 transistor outputs dying one by one on a relay panel

The old panel's card is relay outputs, I'd bet. Look at the number.

3 weeks ago
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RE: ET 200SP inputs on the last two modules drop to 0 whenever the guard door opens

Guard inputs on a supply the guard switches off. Seen that circle before.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Conveyor restarts by itself when the guard door closes, no reset press, GuardLogix cell

Good. And the reset button goes where you can see the whole cage.

3 weeks ago
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RE: Motor rewound twice in a year on a VFD with a 60 m unshielded run

Went with a dv/dt filter at the drive output and pulled shielded VFD cable through the existing conduit, shield bonded both ends. Drive locked out and...

3 weeks ago
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RE: GuardLogix THRSe two-hand control faults on sync unless both buttons hit together

Front block for the channels, rear block for the lamp. Always.

3 weeks ago
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RE: PowerFlex 525 F059 Safety Open on a machine with no safety circuit

S1 and S2 are the two safe torque off inputs and each wants 24V from S+ before the drive will put out anything. No 24V, no torque, and with a run comm...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Two E-stops and one guard door, safety relay or Compact GuardLogix for a small cell

Right, finn, that is the difference. And yes it can. olly, for what you've described: both E-stops and the door in series, two channels, into one dua...

3 weeks ago
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RE: S7-1500 mixer sequence restarts from step 1 after every E-stop reset, batch dumped

Whatever the code ends up doing, the relay stays exactly as it is. E-stop drops the contactors and the valve supply through K1 and K2, the PLC never g...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Conveyor restarts by itself when the guard door closes, no reset press, GuardLogix cell

Then it's doing what it was told. Automatic restart means the function re-enables the moment the door closes, no human in the loop. Fine for a hatch n...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Line-fed screw conveyor motor burned out, panel builder skipped the overload

Draw it out. Breaker, contactor, overload relay, motor. The overload sits between the contactor and the motor, its heaters carry the motor current, an...

3 weeks ago
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RE: GuardLogix THRSe two-hand control faults on sync unless both buttons hit together

Right button, then. The instruction wants the NO and NC of one button to change together, that's how it knows the button is real and not a wire fault....

3 weeks ago
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RE: Motor rewound twice in a year on a VFD with a 60 m unshielded run

Nameplate says nothing about inverter duty. Standard TEFC, class F insulation, that's all it gives you. Carrier is on default on the 40, 4 kHz, and no...

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