Thanks Ed for the ideas,,, I have been using the router in its table since I bought it back in 2001 and its not shown any problems like this before. I understand what you are talking about with the voltage drop.
The job I am running on it now, is making moldings, and they are only 30 inches and 22 inches long, and not quite 1 inch thick. If I go and start now after its been sitting all night, I can run maybe 7 - 10 molding before it shuts down,,,, and then I let it set for maybe 15 minutes and start again,,, and can get only about 2 to 4 cuts and it shuts down again. Sounds to me like an over heating problem but you put your hand on the router and its hardly warm at all, so that stumps me. I find it hard to believe that routing just a couple of 22 inch cuts will over heat the machine. I feel no play, nore feel any grinding sensations while you turn the shaft by hand, to indicate bearings on their way out and with the time I have acutally used this machine,,, I find it hard to believe that the bearings are wearing out already. When I started to make these moldings,,, and I need a lot of em.. I ran maybe 75 of the shorter ones of 22 inches and about 70 of the longer 30 inch ones with out a problem, and I ran them as fast as I could,,, one after another and all of a sudden,, it started to shut down.. And I have had the problem ever since. Nothing else has changed as far as the power is concerned. I built the house myself and wired it myself so I know the wiring is good, It was done with 12/3 to all the plugs and there was not very many plugs per circut. Not much else was running in the shop when the problem developed so I do not feel like it was starving for current.
Any way I am waiting for Hitachi to reply to my emial so maybe they can enlighten me. It just ticks me off that this project has to come to a screaching halt while I deal with this router
But I appreciate your ideas and if you think of anything else... let me know, Thanks again.
Terry |