Happy Tuesday, everyone. We made it through Monday. I just finished assembling my Xr last Friday and started cutting on it this weekend. Sunday, it ran fine, and it ran most of the day on Monday, but after about 6 hours of cutting on Monday, the driver for the Y2 motor went out. During the last cut, water splashed onto the control box for a couple of minutes (slow cut near the edge with 5/8 material). A few minutes later (still cutting), the Y2 motor stopped working for a second. After power cycling the machine, Y2 got power back, so I finished up the cut. After finishing the cut and taking the gantry back, I unloaded the table and set up the next sheet. After that, the Y2 motor had lost power again. I thought that maybe it was the heat and it overheated because it does get hot in the shop (90+ sometimes), but after coming in this morning (65 degrees), Y2 still has no power. I’ve already swapped the leads to confirm it was the driver, as well as opened up the control box to test the driver itself, and it does appear to be down, as I’m not getting any voltage across any of the outputs.
With all of that being said, I have 2 questions:
- Could it have been the heat that fried the driver? Most of our other machines have safety switches that shut down the drive if it is getting too hot to prevent it from destroying the driver.
- If it was the water, where have y’all moved y’alls control boxes so that water doesn’t get splashed on it or what have y’all done to protect it?
