One of the best resources for Rexroth servo motors and servo drives is the manual itself—after all, the point of a manual is to give you all the information you need to operate and troubleshoot your Rexroth equipment. Manuals are the first place you should look when you have an Indramat or Rexroth drive and… Read more »
Rexroth error codes are a handy heads up from your IndraDrive that something has gone wrong. Sometimes it’s a matter of overheating or a broken cable or another mechanical, physical issue. Sometimes, as with Rexroth error code F2057, it’s more of a programming error. What does Rexroth error code F2057 mean? An F2057 error means… Read more »
Industrial motion control, including servo motors and drives, are set up to stop if continuing to work would be dangerous to the machinery or to the people operating it. Fortunately, Rexroth Indramat drives don’t just stop and leave you wondering what’s going on. They communicate with you, sharing their inmost thoughts, or at least the… Read more »
Rexroth servo motors, drives, and controls are remarkably self-sufficient. They don’t need to be oiled or cleaned (though the legacy components that live in cabinets have to be kept in their cabinets so they stay clean) or given a rest or updated or adjusted. They do need electricity, though. You could think of it as… Read more »
F277 is a relatively low information error code, which is fine because there isn’t much you can do with it. The official description is “Current Measurement Trim Wrong”, which is pretty uninformative. The verbiage in the manual is not much more help. So what is that F277 error? The short answer is that F277 is… Read more »
You’ve tracked the problem down to a Rexroth device — or it may say “Indramat” or even “Rexroth Indramat.” In any case, it’s showing you an error code. Now what? First question: do you have the manual? Rexroth electric motion control is the best motion control on the planet. Servos, drives, and controls often work… Read more »
Your Rexroth electric motion control system can throw plenty of error messages. Perhaps one of the most frustrating is F9003: the watchdog error. A watchdog timer is designed to alert you to software or firmware issues. The program will normally reset the watchdog timer regularly. For Rexroth, that timer is set in milliseconds, so the… Read more »
If you see error message F229 on your Rexroth Indramat drive, you’ve encountered a quadrant error. Don’t worry about the quadrants. This is a hardware error. But you can’t tell just from this message which piece of hardware is causing the problem. You could have a defective encoder cable. This is a common problem, since… Read more »
IndraDrive C Error Codes fall into eight classes: F2xxx: non-fatal error F3xxx: non-fatal safety technology error F4xxx: interface error F6xxx: travel range error F7xxx: safety technology error F8xxx: fatal error F9xxx: fatal system error E-xxxx: fatal system error “processor exception” You can tell which kind of error you’re looking at by the first two characters… Read more »
Workplace safety is a primary priority in factories these days. Of course, safety has been regulated in U.S. manufacturing for at least a century, but consumers are now more aware and retailers are more insistent. As a result, machine makers including Rexroth have an even stronger focus on safety. But we also know that it’s… Read more »