Hi I have been using a neoden4 for four months. Built over 1000 boards big and small with 0402 to QFNs. After the machine is dialed in it works very well.
I would like to thank everyone here who posted very helpful hints to over come the same problems I initially ran into.
Today things went bad, after two hours into my latest build I notices black shaving on the bed, so I shut down the machine to inspect the issue. It seemed to shut down just fine, I unscrewed the side panel and the belt has the outside rubber worn down to the threads in a line, but no tear yet. So I thought that is ok for now and will get a replacement from support. So I turned on the machine, and that is when the bad stuff happened.
Not sure if its related but want to post the symptoms to see if any else had this issue.
It boots, but when homing its off and starts to shudder as it gets close to 0,0. Then it goes back to the rest area, like normal boot up, but really never gets to the far side (exit side).
So I know something is wrong with homing, when I try to mount a program it say x/y need initialization. Would have been nice for it to say at boot time initialization failed.
So if anyone has had an experience with this failure mode, please comment. I am contacting support which is good, but sometimes the solution is very long in coming due to time shift and bringing them up to speed. This forum solved all my past issues that are closed now, still have a few, but working around hem just to get things done. An open s/w running on this machine would be terrific.
Thanks
Mick