Troubleshooting Archives - Wicked Edge Automation LLC

11 Mar

Robert Springer Posted in HMI Design No comments

Tank Control Troubleshooting

This customer had a problem with a tank that had filtered water coming in and suction pumps removing the water to maintain a set level in the tank. If the tank level got too high if would overflow and waste the good waater which is the situation we entered this project it. So we evaluated […]

04 Oct

Robert Springer Posted in Legacy Equipment Replace No comments

Phantom’s Boat

We had done a retrofit of old DC Drives and RC Components for a Theater on Phantoms Boat. It had PMI Motors and Aerotech Drives. Which was changed over to modern RC Components and a new drive. We still controlled it with PWM with some tricks. Even though most will tell you you cant do that. […]

07 Mar

Robert Springer Posted in Drive Programming / Configuration No comments

Drive Conversion/ Troubleshooting

Here we had a bad Siemens drive that was being replaced with a PowerFlex 4 and when we got it running more problems were found that the stabilizing pin on the brush mechanism for the turntable broke and ripped the wires out. Nice little mess to deal with.