SC/CJ 500 problem carriage separation

Check your wire tension - if it is too loose the cutter tends to "whip" and get flicked from the heads. Most likely this is your problem. Cheers

 

I can't remember the error I got but I was getting a buzzing sound from the carriage and if you touched the wire or put a bit of pressure on the carriage the buzzing will stop. I tried to slightly tighten the wire tension and went too far and got a error message that sounds like your error. All I know is you couldn't do anything after that. I managed to get the tension back to get the error to quit. Still get the buzzing but don't want to test my limits again.

 

Sorry Jacob, I answered your PM first before seeing this. Just for others to see what I did this is the bulk of it:

I thought I could adjust the tension while the unit was on and while it was buzzing so that I could adjust until the buzzing quit.

What happened is when you release the two screws on the area by the pully that you see in the front left edge, the tension also releases. Then when I turned the screw on the side (where you remove the cover to get at) I did not know how much to turn it. I went too far and once I tightened things back up and tried to use the carriage to read the roll edge on setup, it gave me that internal error ( I think like yours ) and nothing would work. It just kept beeping and the only thing I could do was to power down. (not sure if that was the right thing to do) After that I went back and loosened the tension back off and tried to line it back up where the marks were on the front two screws. I could see where they were before I did anything so I got it close to that and turned the unit back on and the error was gone and the carraige would line up and catch again. Before it was not lined up with the error.

I still get the buzzing so I am back where I was but at least it works. Some day I might get brave enought to try it again but this time just adjust the tension a little ( 1/4 turn ) and see what happens.

I might be wrong but when my carriage did not line up my tension was too tight. Not sure what happens when it's too loose.

Seems like with the buzzing you can pull the wire either way and it will stop the buzzing so I am not 100% sure what will be the best to try next.

Keep me informed if you find something out.