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Post by Admin on Jan 10, 2015 3:49:09 GMT
If someone was of a mind to, and had an APPS that ran priority mail, they might realize that bit 7 input on RIOB3 for each auto induct DCC is the input from the green clear fault button on entrance gate to each induct. On each of the inducts 2 and 3 If you were to put a wire on that bit, another on the 24 volt dc output from that DCC, run the pair for each station out to the induct 1 entrance tied to a mounted box with one (clear fault) button for each of stations 2 and 3, you would be able to clear all the sensor jams from the inside stations without breaking your back going in to clear them constantly. Most of these inside jams are caused by sliding/odd shaped mail and hitting the clear button will cause the induct to reorient the mail and get it on the sorter(back to semi). The mail actually moves faster as well, because the preceding stations are not down and not processing, because you will rarely have to go into the inside stations anymore. Actually I installed this at my site(both side 1 and 2, 1 year ago and it works great(When running Priority/First class mail)(not recommended for magazines). THIS WAS ALREADY SUMBITTED AND APPROVED FOR EIDEAS, so it may come to your site as a change order, but you can get a jump on the installation. Eliminated probably 95% of trips to the inside stations. Any questions LMK
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Post by Rick Grata on Jan 19, 2015 15:47:09 GMT
When I used to monitor the APPS on tour one I've used it many times, works great and saves time.
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Post by Clint Duskin on Feb 17, 2015 22:27:09 GMT
I had been wanting to do the remote start for Apps faults for several years and finally got it done over a year ago. I started with a buzzer and switch to turn off buzzer in parallel with a light. This goes to (30027 T1 of output module #4) and a Start/Reset button (30019 goes to T5 input module #2) (the Lamp and button are all in one)of FSD MCC. Then as stated above I have the three blue light reset buttons going to each induction line. Not only do you see the jam much faster as the light starts flashing right in front of you; you just reach up and reset. If it does not reset you know it is a VFD or a "bridge". Had a suggestion to put in the access button for lines 1 and 2 so when you need to go get a jam on lines 2 or 3 the access would be granted before you get there. Some are wanting me to come up with the VFD reset now. Our second Apps does not have this and everyone is spoiled. The buzzer works great if you are not sitting at the desk and need to know when a jam occurs.
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2015 1:16:27 GMT
Hey Clint, Good stuff! We have a desk on one end(supervisors take over the main terminals) and I also set up cameras and monitors to watch the Traffic control area, since those jams dont report on the SMS console. Say, have you tried to set up the auto induct VFD's so they don't error out on OL1 errors? Playing with a higher current setting doesn't seem to help. There is a param setting to stop the OL2 errors from happening, but since a small amount of friction can mkae belt 5 go down on Ol, I was wondering if you have done any experimentation on this?
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Post by Clint Duskin on Feb 19, 2015 0:52:36 GMT
No I have not studied that. Looks like I should. Never understood why with all the overbuilding that is done for the USPS they made those fault out with a sneeze.
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