I was called to an Inclinator Elevette that is 20 years old. The lift had bad rocking and clinking. The auxiliary rail rollers were destroy and falling apart.
Power the lift off to replace the lower rollers and when powered the lift back on it now won’t respond. Prints weren’t left with the controller and inclinator won’t provide tech support.
The board has lights and drive powers on. When you give the lift the call the drives internal fan powers and makes sound from controller but the lift fails to move or begin to move.
Any ideas printed. Controller picture attached
The drive is dead. The most wild thing fixed it. I found a customers YouTube video who used a blow dryer. I simulated the same thing with a heat gun. Just gently supplied warm air around the drive. After about 45-60 seconds the drive turned on and lift ran fine.
There must be an internal component of the drive that has failed and when heat is applied it’s “jumping” said component to allow the drive to turn on.
I have a video of the whole process if you want to see it shoot me your email.