This doohickey broke I think.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Of course at 4:55 pm with only 4 shirts left to print my press stops indexing. I look down and this dohickey i believe is what controls its is not functioning. What should I be looking at doing? I have to go home now but I will have to get dirty tomorrow and see what I can find.

[jvanick]

that's the 'shock' for the indexer... it pretty much 'smoothes' out the index stroke.

if it's not indexing, more likely you have a bad solenoid or bad prox switch somewhere.

what are the idiot lights saying?

[Prosperi-Tees]

I wish it had idiot lights, it probably would help me feel like less of one.

[jvanick]

I thought the gauntlett had like 4 or 5 leds on the control panel that showed what the plc was thinking?

[Prosperi-Tees]

The only led lights on t he front panel are showing if you had a flash assigned to a station, other than that the little plc window doesn't say much, maybe I can dig down into the menus and hope for some sort of diagnostics.

[Homer]

G those lights should be blinking in a sequence, like heads 2 and 5 lights should be blinking if you are in mid index.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Never seen that Homie in the 2 + years I've had it.

[cbjamel]

What year Gauntlet S.
Shane

[Prosperi-Tees]

Off the top of my head I believe a 96.

[Prosperi-Tees]

Control panel looks like this, lights never flashed since I owned it and the lcd screen only has worked intermitenally but the press really has been trouble free for the past two years except for a sticky valve every now and then until now, and I'm dead in the water unless it's a simple wire or something like that as I'm not mechanically inclined at all. Tried replacing a Mac valve once and that was a big fail. Got a bum knee so makes it hard to get down there.

[Binkspot]

There are lights on the PLC to indicate function inside the box.
If it just stopped it could be the selinoind valve on the indexer or coil, prox switch, safety cable, e stop button, safety circuit, etc.

[Prosperi-Tees]

How do I go about testing these things?

[ScreenFoo]

I'd +1 the safety cord, especially.  One that's intermittent will make you very, very angry.

[Prosperi-Tees]

All the safety cords seem to be fine, and they were all new 2 years ago, I'm at a loss and have no clue what I'm even looking at

[Prosperi-Tees]

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