How to Troubleshoot a FCS300-ES Atom… Guide ID: 10 - Release: How to Troubleshoo…[major] 2015-02-13

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How to Troubleshoot a FCS300-ES Atomized
Spray Pattern
This guide looks at four different spray pattern problems and offers possible corrections.

Written By: Technical Writing

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Step 1 — Incomplete Area Coverage

 The fluid flow is too slow for the path

speed.

 Increase the fluid flow in small

increments or reduce the path
speed until you get a uniform
coating.

 Move parameters can be changed

in PathMaster in the Machine
Parameters window.

 You can open or close the valve

stroke adjust to change the fluid
flow. If your system has a pump, you
can change the pump speed to
change your fluid flow. Refer to your
pump manual for more information.

 You can view the pump and flow

monitor settings in the "Pump" and
"Flow Monitor" tabs in Portal.

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Step 2 — Wavy Edges

 The fluid flow is too great for the

path speed.

 Decrease the fluid flow in small

increments or increase the path
speed until you get a uniform
coating.

 Move parameters can be changed

in PathMaster in the Machine
Parameters window.

 You can open or close the valve

stroke adjust to change the fluid
flow. If your system has a pump, you
can change the pump speed to
change your fluid flow. Refer to your
pump manual for more information.

 You can view the pump and flow

monitor settings in the "Pump" and
"Flow Monitor" tabs in Portal.

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Step 3 — Additional Fluid at Path Start or End

 The valve is on for too long before the robot moves. Decrease the "On" value.

 The valve is on for too long at the end of the path. Change the settings so that the valve stops
dispensing sooner.

 The Valve (tool) "On", "Off", and "Wait" settings are in the Dispensing Parameters section of the
Teach or Edit windows of PathMaster.

 Default parameters can be set in the Tool Configuration window of PathMaster.

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Step 4

 The line should be straight with little

or no waviness. The area should be
completely covered between the
edges. Higher viscosity materials
may have edges with a wave shape.

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