Vector Shuttle Problems

[twoclean21]

I have a problem with one of my Vectors every so often bringing the shuttle to far to one side of the vehicle. It will wash the car normally, but only be to far to one side. All of the I/Os seem to be working fine, so this is driving me crazy. I had a problem with a bad factory gasket placement on the carriage encoder cover and a ton of water got in there. I cleaned up the encoder and sealed it in with silicone liquid gasket. Seemed to run fine after that for a while. I don't think that has anything to do with my new problem, but who knows?

 

[MEP001]

I don't think it does, because an encoder error will always shut down the machine. If the machine still shuttles side to side normally as it washes but is not centered, more than likely the side sensor is failing.

 

[John Spokas]

Tom,

If this is the east bay it is probably due to the higher mounting of the entire machine. I have one site that I service that was installed about 6" higher than spec and we had to modify the side sonar mount in order to get the sonar closer to the floor which placed it into the middle of the sonar sensing envelope.

If sonars are mounted outside of the their ideal sensing range you will get intermittent failures sensing the floor AND both sonars (PS vs DS) probably will not see the floor exactly the same especially if you are outside of the sensing envelope accounting for measuring too far to one side.

 

[twoclean21]

Hello John

Thanks John, so what do we do to get rid of the problem? It only happens sometimes. And by the way did you end up coming up to our wash the other day? Thanks again for your help. - Tom

 

[MEP001]

Our machine was mounted a bit too low, and during hot weather it mis-sizes cars. Yours would do the same thing in cold weather if it's mounted too low. You could fix that easily by devising some way to lower the sonar where you could raise it back up in the summer.