Greetings,
Just finished my Joes CNC Evo. Happy with it so far, but his a few snags last night. Noticed that I had to be losing steps big time. My circles were looking like eggs! Yes, I have a noisy 2.2kw chinese spindle, but I have nice shilded wire and have connected the ground pin to the casing. I have several times had EStops thrown when the spindle's not running. Not sure what's going on, but I went ahead and jacked the Debounce up to 2000. Seems to have fixed it to some extent. The EStops aren't happening any more, but i was still losing steps both on X and Y (dual drive). So after some reading, I put the Y and X on Step Low Active (supposed to help?) It did! Now it appeared I was only getting lost steps on X, but not Y. So I disabled Step Low Active on X and it seems good so far, but of course every time I go to run a job I'm nervous.
LOOOONG STORY to ask this one little question.....Does anyone know of any wizards to test for lost steps. I have 2 home switches installed, X and Y, nothing on Z. I'm thinking like a wizard that would home the machine, then move it some number of steps out, then return it, ideally it should be the same number of steps back to the switch, but if it's more/less, it could tell you so you would know you still have an issues somewhere? Does it exist, and where?
Thanks!!