How To Tell The Difference Between a Servo Controller and a Servo Drive or Amplifier?
Have you ever noticed that the terms servo controller, servo drive, and servo amplifier are often used interchangeably? This can be confusing!
Have you ever noticed that the terms servo controller, servo drive, and servo amplifier are often used interchangeably? This can be confusing!
Small yes, but oh so important! That’s your servo controller! What are your options if your servo controller stops functioning during machine operation? Are your servo controllers repairable? Is replacement the answer? It all depends!
WON’T POWER UP 🙁 Ugh! Have you had this happen to your formerly reliable display equipment? It’s a frustrating, but not uncommon problem. From metalworkers to fabricators to scientists – work can come to a sudden stop when your display unit won’t power up.
Are you getting error codes? Drive won’t enable? Servo motor won’t move? Not getting the proper voltages to your servo motor? The problem could be inside your servo drive! Servo drives can and DO go rogue! But there are signs to look for to see if your servo drive might need […]
Small but mighty, servo drives are critical players on the industrial playing field. These drives are common in CNC machining, factory automation, and robotics . The Teknic SST-1500-561 servo drive is a frequent flyer – meaning there are a lot of them out there working hard (see photo). If your […]
Is your Charmilles operator keyboard having problems communicating? Has your F2 key gone bad and refusing to do anything? Keys broken off altogether? If so, you could have a nasty case of what we call “HUKS”! That’s short for “Hard Use Keyboard Syndrome” – a common “infection” in industrial settings […]
We repair industrial and commercial touch screens regularly here at ACS. Some have had a tough life, pounded by pens or sometimes dented or even punctured by something sharper. Many displays have lost vibrancy or developed annoying lines. Others have worn-out touch areas, or the sound functions are failing to […]
Did your Ingersoll Rand Controller 22173579 stop controlling? Quit on the job? This is frustrating! We get it – it’s a time consuming, costly annoyance to deal with a damaged or malfunctioning controller. Good news! These Ingersoll Rand controllers are pretty well made and usually repairable! This is often true […]
Many power supplies can be repaired! That’s the good news! So, what’s the bad news then? The bad news is that your power supply might not be WORTH repairing.
TRUE or FALSE? H20 + ELECTRONICS = Nightmare. Are water-damaged industrial electronics repairable or always “toast”? The truth is, this is very often a true equation. Water is definitely one third of the Evil Triad (water, heat, dirt) that can spell disaster for electronic equipment like this Omron NS8—TV00B-V2 HMI.