Error Message:

ALE: Plates are sticking together. Please open the plate cover and separate the plates. Press RESUME to continue.

Applies to:

• Trendsetter_400/800_Auto
• Trendsetter_NEWS

Operator Action:

The plates in the device are probably sticking together, preventing the loading sequence to complete. Please open the plate cover and try to separate the plates. Close the plate cover, then press the Resume button to contine the loading sequence.

Service Information:

If this error is reported, the picker wrist is having trouble moving out, most likely because the plates are stuck together.

If there are problems during a pick, the firmware does extra steps to try and figure out the real problem. For this error to be reported, the picker will have tried to grab the plate, but couldn't wrist out with it, either because it popped off while the picker was wristing out, or because the wrist didn't move out within the allowed time. The picker wrist will have moved back in to try and grab the plate again. If, after the second try, the picker still can't wrist the plates out, this error will be reported.

The wrist cylinder may be faulty, but after the wrist failed to move out the first time, the vacuum will have been released. After releasing the plate, the wrist moved out properly.

Cause:

• The plates are sticking together, causing the picker to have trouble moving the wrist out.
• The timeout value for the wrist motion (aldly pwod) could be too short.
• The wrist cylinder may be sticking, or moving slowly.

See Also:

• NVS: al vpi
• NVS: al lpe
• NVS: al pse
• NVS: aldly pwod
• Error: E_ALE_BAD_WRIST_SENSOR
• Error: E_ALE_BAD_WRIST_CYLINDER