What would explain the wait in our UR5e spacer-loading video?

JackCarter1037 · 26 Jun 2026, 01:49 UTC

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JackCarter1037
Our imported UR5e package stops intermittently while loading aluminium spacer blocks, and after 51 days my Alibaba seller ticket still consists mainly of a phone video and requests for more information; I want to make the next reply specific enough that somebody can investigate instead of asking me to film the same pause again.

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FarahBarnes0591
Replying to JackCarter1037

Where is the spacer when the pause begins, Jack? Your description could mean before pickup, during the transfer or after placement, and the useful evidence would be different in each case.

12 points
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HazelArcher0397
Replying to JackCarter1037

I sympathise with the filming loop. I once sent a longer clip that still missed the only message support needed. More seconds were not more information. Can the person saving your machine messages identify which occurrence the video shows?

1 points
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JonasBrooks0807
Replying to JackCarter1037

And don't lump every pause under one cause. Same visible stop can hide different waiting conditions.

13 points
JA
JackCarter1037
Replying to JackCarter1037

Farah, the block is already in the receiving fixture; Hazel Archer, the clip time matches one saved occurrence and its screen says waiting for fixture confirmation, although the phone view doesn't show the fixture indication.

10 points
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PriyaIO
Replying to JackCarter1037

Then ask for the active step and the source of that confirmation in the installed logic. A text message names the application's expectation, not necessarily the reason the input is absent. Include revisions so support reads the right definition.

11 points
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HazelCarter1006
Replying to JackCarter1037

Does the saved occurrence include the fixture input history, or only the message text?

20 points
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DavidCarter1041
Replying to PriyaIO

Priya, would you include the preceding completed step too, so support can see what the program believes happened before this wait?

14 points
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JackCarter1037
Replying to JackCarter1037

Hazel Carter, only the message was saved; our maintainer has since retrieved the controller event export but it doesn't contain that input history, and David, the active step follows the placement request but doesn't itself prove the fixture received the block correctly.

20 points
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PriyaIO
Replying to DavidCarter1041

David, yes. Jack's distinction is important: preserve the preceding command and its reported result, without promoting either to a physical observation. The missing input history is now a specific capture gap.

14 points
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AlexBell0646
Replying to JackCarter1037

Who can collect that history when Jack is not there? Put their name in the ticket.

16 points
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Warren_Carr
Replying to JackCarter1037

And what happens to the work meanwhile? Fifty-one days is a lot of somebody waiting by a phone. A named diagnostic contact and an update date are reasonable asks, even while the cause is unknown.

8 points
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Abigail_Bailey
Replying to PriyaIO

Has the seller actually named the condition behind that message yet?

17 points
JO
JonasBrooks0807
Replying to Warren_Carr

Warren, agreed. A better report shouldn't quietly restart the support clock from zero.

12 points
JA
JackCarter1037
Replying to JackCarter1037

Alex, maintenance cover will collect it; Warren, we are using our existing manual route and purchasing now owns the support chase; Abigail, the seller identified the expected fixture input and has arranged a diagnostic session with our maintainer.

10 points
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FarahBarnes0591
Replying to JackCarter1037

That is enough to make the session purposeful. I would have the maintainer compare the physical indication with the signal history at the same event; otherwise the camera and the exported bits could still be telling stories from different pauses.

10 points
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HazelArcher0397
Replying to FarahBarnes0591

Farah, especially if someone sends a photograph after the fault has cleared. Ours looked very reassuring by then. Wrong moment, excellent photograph.

9 points
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JackCarter1037
Replying to JackCarter1037

The session found the fixture indication remained present while the controller-side confirmation dropped; maintenance traced a loose terminal in the interface enclosure under isolation and corrected it, but we haven't completed the agreed repeat check yet.

6 points
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PriyaIO
Replying to JackCarter1037

That supports a specific interface finding. Keep the before-and-after trace and the repeat-check conditions; don't assign every older unrecorded stop to that terminal merely because it was loose.

-2 points
JA
JackCarter1037
Replying to PriyaIO

Agreed, Priya. The ticket names the traced occurrence and correction, with repeat checking still due; I have left the older pauses unclassified instead of declaring fifty-one days explained by one terminal.

12 points

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