RonnyCrack
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3-4 weeks ago, I was shocked by my UCJV while rewinding the roll backwards after a long print, to send through the cut portion of the job. I noticed later that the screen looked a bit different (slightly washed out/interlaced looking).
I can't remember if I just restarted the printer, or if I shocked myself again and the screen fixed itself - but it went back to normal nonetheless. A week or two and a few jobs later, I was rewinding the roll backwards again, and was shocked again, so I took a look at the screen, and yeah it seems it was directly caused by the shocks. I tried restarting the printer, and the screen went even further washed out, but one more reboot brought it back to only slightly washed out. Another week or two passes, and I'm printing a large job overnight. I wake up and it was interrupted in the middle of the night by a Y motor error. Okay... So I try to send a job through again at high speed, and it keeps failing after a few passes. Then I figured out "Normal" speed still worked. That kept me in motion for about another week, before Friday night at about 2am, immediately when I walked into my shop, and almost as if to mock me, the printer gets a Y motor error... Lol I caught it red handed. The head would still move left to right via controls on the printer, but I couldn't get a job to even finish a full pass on the slowest print speeds. I figured a restart might help, but since restarting it can't even attempt to move from it's home position, just throwing Y motor, and now Y current errors. From what I understand there should really be no circumstance in which I'm shocked by/am shocking my printer. And I was also told it's also unusual for a motor to go out that fast in a 3 year old machine. I'm worried that replacing the motor will be no help, because something else might be fried in there, slowly frying other components.
So do I spend $500 on a motor, and if it gets fried, then spend $1500 on a main board & another motor, and if those get fried... what's next? Do I roll around on a rug until I have enough static electricity in my clothes to power a house, and zap that bad boy? Lol
I can't remember if I just restarted the printer, or if I shocked myself again and the screen fixed itself - but it went back to normal nonetheless. A week or two and a few jobs later, I was rewinding the roll backwards again, and was shocked again, so I took a look at the screen, and yeah it seems it was directly caused by the shocks. I tried restarting the printer, and the screen went even further washed out, but one more reboot brought it back to only slightly washed out. Another week or two passes, and I'm printing a large job overnight. I wake up and it was interrupted in the middle of the night by a Y motor error. Okay... So I try to send a job through again at high speed, and it keeps failing after a few passes. Then I figured out "Normal" speed still worked. That kept me in motion for about another week, before Friday night at about 2am, immediately when I walked into my shop, and almost as if to mock me, the printer gets a Y motor error... Lol I caught it red handed. The head would still move left to right via controls on the printer, but I couldn't get a job to even finish a full pass on the slowest print speeds. I figured a restart might help, but since restarting it can't even attempt to move from it's home position, just throwing Y motor, and now Y current errors. From what I understand there should really be no circumstance in which I'm shocked by/am shocking my printer. And I was also told it's also unusual for a motor to go out that fast in a 3 year old machine. I'm worried that replacing the motor will be no help, because something else might be fried in there, slowly frying other components.
So do I spend $500 on a motor, and if it gets fried, then spend $1500 on a main board & another motor, and if those get fried... what's next? Do I roll around on a rug until I have enough static electricity in my clothes to power a house, and zap that bad boy? Lol
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