Spoken to few KONE testers and technical personnel in South East Asia. KONE V3F16L drive typically have short life span ranging from 1 to 4 years. But the average is less than 2 years. The common error codes are 0026 (Drive Fault) and 0103 (Brake Resistor). Drive Ready LED on MAP panel would not go on.
Once stripped of its housing, by physical inspection, there is no damages. Components & PCB appear to be in good shape.
There were cases where tester began to commission the lift, the drive went K.O. and delayed the lift hand-over to client.
I am suspecting KONE is being unethical in charging drive replacement at exorbitant price. They sell Monospace really cheap but recovers profit from spare parts, where the main income comes from drives replacement.
A lot of monospace customers are pissed off with KONE.
Can anyone identify problem at V3F16L? Is there anything can be done? If there is runtime limiter in the software, then ... there is nothing we could do.
Kindly share your experiences.