I am trying to finish up my X2 cnc conversion and am having trouble getting my motors tuned. I just finished three hours of futile trial and error. I didn't want to have to ask for help, but I surrender.
I am using a kit I got off EBay from Longs Motor, with 23HS motors. I learned after the fact that their documentation is lacking, to say the least. I have it all set up and running, but when I try and tell Mach where to go, it doesn't want to go where I tell it. I have tried switching the dip switches on the drivers and the config in motor tuning to no avail.
I went to the setup screen and tried calibrating that way, but the setting Mach3 gives me is over the limits. I started at 2000 120 4 and up to 3600 steps per, but the movement never changed. Trying to move just on inch gives me about 5/16ths and 2 inches gives me about 25/32's.
My ball screw is .2 ipr, so I figure that at 400 steps per rev, which is the lowest my motor will go, I am at about 2000 steps per unit, so it must be the acceleration that is wrong.
Can someone point me to where I can find an explanation that will help me fix it? I searched the forum and got a gazillion hits, but have to research after every post I look at and that is too much for my current state of patience. I just don't know what I am doing wrong here.
Thanks in advance and sorry for not seeing what is probably very obvious.
Dan