Gravity wants to pull the drive arm vertical, which pulls the doors open. Looked for a slanted track, and dished belts.
Operator is an HD85
Are these types supposed to have pinch torque, when there is no demand?
You're probably out of adjustment mechanically...
I'm looking at it right now. Hangar track seems titled. Gonna put a level on it.
I adjusted everything as best as I could, got the doors to stay shut. But then they were banging the strike! Did a door learn run, still banging. Increased close slowdown distance, increased final distance, decreased close force at all positions, etc, etc, in other words tried tweaking each and every adjustment available in the close direction that could possibly keep the doors from slamming shut. Tried multiple learn runs, tweaked adjustments ad infinitum. No luck... Never had a DMC do this before, we have always been able to adjust them. In fact on this operator, the open adjustments respond as you would expect, no problem getting the open fine tuned.
It's just like the door operator had no ability to slow the doors down, once they were set in motion, no matter what adjustments were made. I concluded that the door board didn't have the ability electrically to slow the doors in the close direction, once they had been accelerated.
Will try a new board tomorrow, if available.
This was a contributing factor to the open drift. Thanks.
The safe-edge retractor and clutch retractor work off the same roller. Takes a lot of force to accomplish that. So we made sure it was fully on the flat spot, plus we tilted the flat spot slightly, just to make sure it wouldnt kick open.
Hmm, ok. I'll take a look at that!
Thanks for the info!
I still think the board is bad. Because regardless, even if there is some mechanical issue, you should still see some effect in the adjustments, but there was none at all. Even going to extremes, close adjustments could not keep the door from slamming the strike. The only close adjustment that had any effect at all was the overall close speed. But if that was turned down low enough to reduce the slam, then the close speed was at a snails' pace, and not acceptable. It shouldn't be this way. The close slowdown distance should have at least SOME kind of effect on the close, even if there is a concurrent mechanical problem. So the evidence still points to the board, although there might needs be additional mechanical work to be done.