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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Karen, unfortunately I think this most likely indicates a problem with the data acquisition board (DAB), and hence a service call. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>But possibly this is due to weak signals from the magnet on the rotor bottom passing over the Hall sensor, or perhaps even the overspeed sensor. Thus one thing to check is whether these errors occur when you use a different rotor. Definitely the magnet within the overspeed disk can get cracked if the rotor hits the spindle hard (which requires replacing the overspeed disk). Sometimes too the Hall sensor signal gets weak because the collar in which it is mounted slips downward on the drive (again requiring a service tech). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>I've also seen problems when the overspeed disk on a rotor got somewhat scratched and faded, so there wasn't enough contrast between the dark and shiny parts of the pattern (something which can be corrected by using a Sharpie on the dark segments). However I think that issue usually produces false overspeed errors rather than "waiting for speed" hangs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>Good luck,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'>John<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: RASMB <<a href="mailto:rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org">rasmb-bounces@list.rasmb.org</a>> On Behalf Of Karen Fleming<br>Sent: Monday, April 24, 2023 2:25 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:rasmb@list.rasmb.org">rasmb@list.rasmb.org</a><br>Subject: [RASMB] Perpetually "waiting for speed"</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We’ve had a lot of trouble with our XL-A this year, and the latest problem is that it is stuck at “Waiting for Speed” and will not scan Does anyone know why it is stuck. It is indeed AT SPEED.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The other error we are getting is RTE not running checksum error. What is this and what do we do about this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We’d really love to resolve this ourselves so we don’t have to call Beckman service.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Karen Fleming<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>RASMB mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:RASMB@list.rasmb.org">RASMB@list.rasmb.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://list.rasmb.org/listinfo.cgi/rasmb-rasmb.org">http://list.rasmb.org/listinfo.cgi/rasmb-rasmb.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>