gauntlet index print issues

[ericheartsu]

I'm waiting for a call back from our in town tech, but our gauntlet just started doing this thing where it'll index, raise up to the head, and stay there till it errors out.

It will not print, single or double, and when looking at the fork it starts sliding back towards the start position.

any idea what's going on?

right now we are manually indexing and manually printing from the control panel, but it will not cycle

[Northland]

Just a guess.... table up sensor is out of whack. Out of adjustment -or- bad ??

[ol man]

sounds like a proxy sensor has gone out.

[ericheartsu]

they all light up, and they print fine when manually doing it...

how do i test for a bad proxy?

[3Deep]

Look for a burn mark on it, thats how I found mine was bad, it would light up and flood but would not do a print stroke.

Darryl

[ol man]

Honestly I would just switch it out to check -- we have plenty of spares.

Spare part are a life saver -- need one? order two.

[244]

I'm waiting for a call back from our in town tech, but our gauntlet just started doing this thing where it'll index, raise up to the head, and stay there till it errors out.

It will not print, single or double, and when looking at the fork it starts sliding back towards the start position.

any idea what's going on?

right now we are manually indexing and manually printing from the control panel, but it will not cycle

The center shaft proximity sounds like it went bad. It is the one that reads that the table is up and start print mode.

[ZooCity]

Before I bought ours (not running yet) I dry cycled it for about 20 min and checked it out and it was doing something similar where it was cycling fine and then it would just stop. Sounds very similar.  Like others said, probably the prox sensor, it just isn't getting the signal to start the next cycle.  I'm actually ordering three today so I have fresh replacements plus a backup.  At least I hope that's the case with ours! Let us know how you get on with this. 

[ericheartsu]

Before I bought ours (not running yet) I dry cycled it for about 20 min and checked it out and it was doing something similar where it was cycling fine and then it would just stop. Sounds very similar.  Like others said, probably the prox sensor, it just isn't getting the signal to start the next cycle.  I'm actually ordering three today so I have fresh replacements plus a backup.  At least I hope that's the case with ours! Let us know how you get on with this.

am getting on this train tomorrow. Thanks all for the pointers. Good thing i have a tech coming next week to repair our other press.