AlarmAlignment Module — Home Position Sensors (S5/S6)

HC10824 — Alignment module vertical home-position sensor S5 not connected or malfunctioning

Agfa CT error code, reported by the Alignment Module.

What HC10824 means

On DryStar 5500 (Type 5364/100) and DryStar 5503 (Type 5364/300) CT systems, status code HC10824 indicates: Alignment module vertical home-position sensor S5 not connected or malfunctioning. The code originates in the Alignment Module — Home Position Sensors (S5/S6) section of the Alignment Module. Severity level alarm (Alarm).

Reported action: Check the connections to sensor S5, then connector P27 on the MEC board — reconnect or replace whichever isn't OK. If the connections are fine, check the wiring from S5 to MEC/P27 with a multimeter and fix it if faulty. If the wiring is good, power off the printer and replace S5; if the fault persists, the MEC board is defective and needs replacing..

Raised on the Drystar 5500/5503 when the alignment module's vertical home-position sensor S5 is not connected or is malfunctioning. The printer shows "Call service". Filed alongside the equivalent horizontal home-position code, HC10825, and the homing time-out code HC11208 that also involves S5.

Full troubleshooting for HC10824

The complete diagnosis, cause tree, and step-by-step remedy for the Alignment Module — Home Position Sensors (S5/S6) subsystem are documented in the FSELIB Activion16 (TSX-031A) service manual — re-authored, web-first, with real figures.

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Related Alignment Module — Home Position Sensors (S5/S6) codes

HC10825Alignment module horizontal home-position sensor S6 not connected or malfunctioningHC11208Alignment homing time-out on sensor S5 or S6 after a door or tray closesHC10053Themis board CPU too hotHC10100MEC PCB test failedHC10814Drum passed sensor S24 not connected or malfunctioningHC10815Drum entry sensor S23 not connected or malfunctioningHC11000Firewire cable between Crius and Themis boards not connected or faultyHC1100124V actuator power not available on the MEC board
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Source: AGFA DryStar service manual — HC error catalogue (FSELIB authored corpus). Reference information re-authored by FSELIB — not a copy of the OEM manual.