Our Stratum is not behaving.
When I first got here, we had a lot of issues with the coater. Pits, Runs, etc. Took it a part, cleaned filters, nozzles, tanks, etc, and it went from a 50% rework rate to about 10. Given where we came from.. I was relatively happy.
Til last week.
Last Wednesday, the coater began to turn itself off every time the cure cycle would kick on. Cheapest (but still $$) thing to try was replacing our bulb (which was about 3months old) and pray to the lab gods that it was a bad bulb. Tech agreed.
Which seemed to be the case.. till today. It is doing it again.
Which then seems to point towards a power issue. Whether it is in the machine.. or potentially building is the concern now. There are some signs that we may have a building issue due to the number of electical/computer things we have replaced over the past year.. in all brand new equipment. We also have a fish tank that is supposed to have a multi-color light show.. that does get reset to just clear quite frequently which would happen if it ever lost power..So there is an argument to be made for having an electrician come out.
However, I am also well aware of what that can do to a machine. With this being our second blown bulb in a week.. it leads me to wonder if there is an issue with the machine itself.
If you were a young start up that no longer was under your 1yr warranty period... would you pay to have a tech come out to check the machine out, install some line conditioners and monitor the situation? Call an electrician to have them test? Would you still want the tech to come if your past experience was that they didn't have a clue and just changed parts to see if things might get better? Any other ideas or suggestions?
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