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12. Trouble-shooting chart
The following section will detail procedures for checking your processor, should you encounter a malfunction.
Important!
Before setting, operating, cleaning, maintaining or repairing the processor, read the manufacturer’s opera-
ting and maintenance instruction manual.
Trouble description Possible causes
Remedies
Processor fails to split - no or low oil
- Check the oil and fill up, if required
- Multifunctional control lever is not
- Reset lever trigging mechanism
properly shift down to last step
- Control valve out of setting
- Provide new adjustment
- There is dirt of the trigging system
- Clean
- Oil is too cold
- Let the processor run a few minutes
till oil has warmed up
Splitter push-block
- Oil is too cold
- Let the processor run a few minutes
slides too slowly or
till oil has warmed up
powerless
- No or low oil
- Check the oil level and eventually fill-up
Splitter cannot
- Wrong setting of the wedge
- Make sure the wedge is set properly
complete splitting of
-Crooked, very branchy unpruned log - Switch the machine off and turn the log
around to find optimal position inside
the splitter trough
- Log diameter is too big
- Switch the machine off and remove log
- Operating pressure is too low
- Check and set the hydraulic system
Oil warms up
- Not enough oil in the line
- Check oil and eventually fill-up
- Ram does not slides back
- Check and reset ram stroke-end
Log pops up during
- Very branchy unpruned log
- Stop the machine, disconnect power
splitting
The electric motor does - Faulty power cable
- Check cable status
not start
- Faulty protection fuse
- Replace fuse
- Faulty switch
- Replace switch
- Broken motor
- Replace motor
- Emergency stop push-button pressed - Press to release
down
The electric motor turns - Inverted wires in power cable
- Change plug polarity
but in the wrong direction
(using a phase changer)
Conveyor belt slips to - Check stretching
- Eventually re-tension (adjust upper
the side
the side pulley)
Log sticks to the wedge - Wedge knives are dull
- Re-grind
after splitting
Logs don‘t get caught - Belt conveyor position is excessively - Adjust rake angle (reduce conveyor
by belt conveyor
upright
upright slope)
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