Every 15-20 seconds or so.
I pushed the red OFF button with no change.
I’m defiantly a severely broken record, but I’m that means there’s too much vacuum pressure and it’s trying to purge the filters but can’t cause I’m assuming small resin infused particles have been almost baked on there and so they’re unable to just blow it off like usual
When I found the Felder with the suction line off, someone had placed it in cleaning mode (black control set to the left). This causes a periodic “thumping” and the green button will not start the collector. I’m sure that is the condition the OP reported. He probably didn’t know to move that control to manual before pressing the green button to start the collector.
In his defense I can’t find a manual online and the only good video is our very own maintenance video. Unfortunately we don’t describe that control or how it should be set.
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scrounged this up…
PDF page 29 (doc page 23) shows the controls, I think…
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That manual doesn’t seem to match our controls. Just to close out this thread for future searches; how do we use the three settings on the black control knob?
Left / clean: collection disabled, filter cleaning “thumps” of air
Middle / automatic: ??
Right / manual: ??
Which of the middle or right are the normal operating setting for our use?
Right for manual at the moment. Future plan is to have automatic blast gates in the new configuration from what I understand.
As luck would have it, I happen to have a .pdf version of the correct Felder RL350 manual. I uploaded it to the wiki, and linked to it from the Tools section.
(Filename says RL250. File covers three models including the RL350 that we have).
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Blast Gates? I don’t follow on that? But as with the current setup the black knob should be used in some sort of this fashion, when the yellow light comes on or when you just generally want to purge the filters of dust, red button for off, then black knob to the left, normal operation where it will purge itself if needed black knob to the right
The machine was supplied with automatic blast gates
Yea I know but I don’t see how they’ll be feasibly implemented in the new woodshop, like I understand and am very familiar with the concept but the logistics is where say huh? Cause we’d have to hook them up to anything that’s “hot” current speaking so either we splice each tools cord, or we have them open in groups that are plugged into a box that’s then wired into one plug allowing the group to open when 1 is turned on, both of which seems dicey at best
Rather than wired in, I’d guess these have a current sensing device attached external to the cord.
If they do, kudos to them cause that’d be awesome! I was assuming they’re just the ones with solenoids that have to be basically spliced Into the live line but if they’re external im eager to see them in action cause that’s gonna be a kick ass setup for the woodshop