UponTheSquare
New member
Greetings,
I am hoping that someone in this community can help me with this issue....we just replaced all of our old (early 90's) Belanger equipment with Macneil equipment. Everything is working great with the exception of the 701 Superflex electric freestanding wraps (long arm)...which are working, but here is the issue (which Macneil technical support is unable to help with).
While programming the wraps into the Kesseltronics RtC, the following fields are available..
Location (no problem)
Front Boost run (recommended value in manual)
Rear Boost run (recommended value in manual)
*Main arm and boost pre-start (manual and tech support are no help)
Fold start (no problem, folding around mirror)
*Run pre-start (manual and tech support no help)
*Rear boost pre-start (no help anywhere)
*Main arm delay off (no help anywhere)
Unfold delay off (trial and error til it's unfolding at rear properly)
Run delay off (no problem)
As I mentioned, through trial and error we have been able to get them good enough to function at the time being, however, the fields with asterisks are foreign to us, and we would like to have them juuuuuust right before reopening, rather than "functional", particularly by the time winter rolls around in the Northeast, and we're running at 150 cph line speeds with cars a couple of feet apart.
If anyone is familiar with these wraps and/or the programming associated with them, I would appreciate a little (or a lot of) input.
The most helpful thing possible would be your own setup, ie: 185 distance from eye, X front boost, Y rear boost, Z main arm and boost pre-start, etc. so I have a known set of "ideal" or at the very least properly function values to work off of.
If no assistance of that nature is available, a "Glossary" of exactly what each of the fields means, explained for a dummy (10 years in the industry, first set of wraps, I know, I'm way behind the times), including when you want it to happen, and what is the measuring point (is everything from the switch, or as is (very vaguely) shown in some of Macneils illustration is there a '0' position at the wrap stand for certain values) ea. "rear boost pre-start is x and you want it to activate when the wrap reaches the rear of the car, or the center of the rear, or whatever, as measure from the stand to the point or the switch to the point" etc.
I know this is an extremely long winded question, but I've seen many before that didn't have enough information, so I'm trying to avoid that. I am working with an installer who has 30+ years of experience in the game, but hasn't dealt with this specific equipment/controller combination before, and Macneil's idea of tech support is emailing me the same f****** manual as I already have that doesn't have the information I need, or explaining to repeatedly over the course of a 15 minute conversation that the installer should know how to do it, and that Dan would be able to answer me, but he's not with the company anymore. (Repeated calls to Dan have been made with no response).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am hoping that someone in this community can help me with this issue....we just replaced all of our old (early 90's) Belanger equipment with Macneil equipment. Everything is working great with the exception of the 701 Superflex electric freestanding wraps (long arm)...which are working, but here is the issue (which Macneil technical support is unable to help with).
While programming the wraps into the Kesseltronics RtC, the following fields are available..
Location (no problem)
Front Boost run (recommended value in manual)
Rear Boost run (recommended value in manual)
*Main arm and boost pre-start (manual and tech support are no help)
Fold start (no problem, folding around mirror)
*Run pre-start (manual and tech support no help)
*Rear boost pre-start (no help anywhere)
*Main arm delay off (no help anywhere)
Unfold delay off (trial and error til it's unfolding at rear properly)
Run delay off (no problem)
As I mentioned, through trial and error we have been able to get them good enough to function at the time being, however, the fields with asterisks are foreign to us, and we would like to have them juuuuuust right before reopening, rather than "functional", particularly by the time winter rolls around in the Northeast, and we're running at 150 cph line speeds with cars a couple of feet apart.
If anyone is familiar with these wraps and/or the programming associated with them, I would appreciate a little (or a lot of) input.
The most helpful thing possible would be your own setup, ie: 185 distance from eye, X front boost, Y rear boost, Z main arm and boost pre-start, etc. so I have a known set of "ideal" or at the very least properly function values to work off of.
If no assistance of that nature is available, a "Glossary" of exactly what each of the fields means, explained for a dummy (10 years in the industry, first set of wraps, I know, I'm way behind the times), including when you want it to happen, and what is the measuring point (is everything from the switch, or as is (very vaguely) shown in some of Macneils illustration is there a '0' position at the wrap stand for certain values) ea. "rear boost pre-start is x and you want it to activate when the wrap reaches the rear of the car, or the center of the rear, or whatever, as measure from the stand to the point or the switch to the point" etc.
I know this is an extremely long winded question, but I've seen many before that didn't have enough information, so I'm trying to avoid that. I am working with an installer who has 30+ years of experience in the game, but hasn't dealt with this specific equipment/controller combination before, and Macneil's idea of tech support is emailing me the same f****** manual as I already have that doesn't have the information I need, or explaining to repeatedly over the course of a 15 minute conversation that the installer should know how to do it, and that Dan would be able to answer me, but he's not with the company anymore. (Repeated calls to Dan have been made with no response).
Any help is greatly appreciated.
