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I finally figured out why the night shift Haas keeps alarming out at 2am, and it was a $4 part
So last Tuesday, our night shift guy calls me at 2:15am saying the Haas ST-20 won't run a single cycle without throwing a 179 overload alarm on the live tooling. I drag myself in thinking it's a big spindle issue, maybe a bad drive board that's gonna cost us thousands. I pull the cover off the turret and there's a chip wedged in the tool holder seat, just one little stringy aluminum curl from the job we ran Monday. The coolant nozzle was knocked about 5 degrees out of position, so it wasn't flushing the seat and that chip sat there baking all night. I grabbed a new nozzle from the bin for four bucks, tweaked the angle, and it ran the whole rest of the shift with zero alarms. The funniest part is our setup guy swore up and down it was a parameter issue and spent two days messing with the load monitor settings before I even got there. Anybody else got a ghost alarm story that turned out to be something stupid simple?
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