Type 27 pcu units

[aabarnes1]

can you chaps give me some feedback on your experience of these units please, ie. life count(real life- not manual) machines fitted to and rebuilding. many thanks for your help on this.We seem to be having a lot of sc355,s and grey background faults after 20k or so.

[MFPGUY]

can you chaps give me some feedback on your experience of these units please, ie. life count(real life- not manual) machines fitted to and rebuilding. many thanks for your help on this.We seem to be having a lot of sc355,s and grey background faults after 20k or so.

It sounds like a pcu for the ld122, ld225 generation; what model is it. The error is related to id sensor? Did you replace the whole unit or replaced parts? Provide some additional info.

[Llama God]

Indeed, more info would help! What models of machines are you putting them into? The newer models will take these PCUs but they need to have a dev initialisation done on them as there is no flag sensor on the back of the machine.

We've had no problems with them really - they normally do between 60k and 80k and the dev can do roughly 120k if you replace the drum and blade with B0399510 and AD041114 respectively.

[zyqwiz]

Do you mean Type 1027? The ones Ricoh supply now are remanufactured - we had loads of problems with them the first time they came out. Could be a dodgy batch.

[aabarnes1]

We've put them into 1027, 1022 and 2022, even into a 3030.They used to last upto 80or 90k

[Llama God]

I'm going to 2 MP3010s tomorrow and I'll be fitting the 1027 PCUs. Slam the buggers in, initialise the dev and awaaaaaaaaay

[Shadow1]

They took them away from us Ricoh Direct techs - we would put them in everything they would fit in - they were cheaper to replace as a unit than just the parts to rebuild the new machines, not to mention the time, and we usually have to replace them after 2 pm's anyway, but now the units are 4 times as expensive.

Now the customer has to order them if they actually have a 1027 machine.

Generally they last well over 70k, and if you can get them for anywhere near the old price they're not really cost effective to rebuild.

When Ricoh took them out of the tech part list we discovered the B039 PCU's we took out had a few extra screws that made them MUCH easier to rebuild than the old 1027 we had replaced them with. Bummer.

Then we discovered the developer drive gears and all the seals didn't last for crap, and we didn't feel so bad.