Technogym EXCITE Run 500, Service Maintenance Manual

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RUN EXCITE-2008: Service & Maintenance Manual - rev. 1.3
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6.14. “GRADIENT NOT WORKING” MESSAGE ON THE
DISPLAY
If the elevation does not work and there is no error message on the display, the elevation
movement may have been disabled in the configuration menu. For further details, refer
to paragraph 9.2.12. “Enable up/down motor”.
Check parameter PAR 09 is settingAT UL
15 (1,5 Sec.).
This parameter defines the time window within which the inverter expects to receive a
sufficient number of pulses from the elevation motor, before generating an error
condition.
1. This error message indicates that the machine is unable to control the elevation motor. The
error is produced when the inverter does not receive pulses from the motor encoder, after
having enabled it. In this case the machine disables any movement and sets the parameter PAR
07 to 1.
2.
The error message may be caused by a problem with the lower limit switch. In fact if the limit
switch malfunctions or accidentally remains in the open-contact state, rather than in the
normally closed state, the error is not generated immediately but will occur as soon as the
elevation is increased beyond 1%. At this point, the elevation function will be locked out and
parameter PAR 07 set to 1.
3.
The error message may be due to a misalignment of the elevation motor encoder. In fact, if the
encoder of the elevation motor is not correctly positioned, the motor will fail to produce a
pulse. At this point, the elevation function will be locked out and parameter PAR 07 set to 1.
When the machine is switched on again, the parameter PAR 07 is automatically reset to 0 and the
machine performs the reset procedure. If the error does not happen anymore, supposing it was
generated by a noise, the machine restarts to work properly.
It might also be helpful to refer to the theoretical explanation of the elevation control,
provided in paragraph: 3.3. “Elevation motor drive”.