Hello everyone and many thanks to all the people who contribute to this extremely helpful forum.
So here is my story.
Printer (VS-640i) worked fine, except not so loud noises made by a scan motor. About a month ago it stopped during printing (twice) with "motor error ..." but I could print again after rail bearings lubrication, which probably reduced the resistance. After 3 weeks of flawless printing, the noise became lauder, so I decided to change the motor.
Here's what happened after replacing it with a new one (OEM or at least looks like one):
- first power-on: some noises from motor, no movement, "motor error ..." on display (sorry, don't remember the digit codes)- then I could only turn it off in the back;
- second power-on: similar noises together with rhythmical up/down movement of cutting knife, "service call 0330";
- third power-on: similar to second one but with "service call 0109".
At this point I decided to switch back to the old motor, to check if it's a new motor's fault. Unfortunately (almost) nothing's changed.
Now every time I turn on, I only get a quiet clicking from the motor (without movement) and one of the errors (0330 or 0109) - no up/down knife movement anymore.
Mechanically all seems to be fine: I can move the carriage by hand freely without noise. Also all the connections I could visually check seem fine.
Definitely something went wrong electrically because of motor changing (or I did something wrong). Seems it's all related to the servo board (mentioned knife behaviour, engine clicking, error types).
Considering I'm not a qualified technician, is there anything I could do now to confirm what's broken or at least to narrow down possible causes?
Or should I just order a new servo board?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
So here is my story.
Printer (VS-640i) worked fine, except not so loud noises made by a scan motor. About a month ago it stopped during printing (twice) with "motor error ..." but I could print again after rail bearings lubrication, which probably reduced the resistance. After 3 weeks of flawless printing, the noise became lauder, so I decided to change the motor.
Here's what happened after replacing it with a new one (OEM or at least looks like one):
- first power-on: some noises from motor, no movement, "motor error ..." on display (sorry, don't remember the digit codes)- then I could only turn it off in the back;
- second power-on: similar noises together with rhythmical up/down movement of cutting knife, "service call 0330";
- third power-on: similar to second one but with "service call 0109".
At this point I decided to switch back to the old motor, to check if it's a new motor's fault. Unfortunately (almost) nothing's changed.
Now every time I turn on, I only get a quiet clicking from the motor (without movement) and one of the errors (0330 or 0109) - no up/down knife movement anymore.
Mechanically all seems to be fine: I can move the carriage by hand freely without noise. Also all the connections I could visually check seem fine.
Definitely something went wrong electrically because of motor changing (or I did something wrong). Seems it's all related to the servo board (mentioned knife behaviour, engine clicking, error types).
Considering I'm not a qualified technician, is there anything I could do now to confirm what's broken or at least to narrow down possible causes?
Or should I just order a new servo board?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.