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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: aquatix on March 30, 2009, 08:33:28 AM

Title: Z axis is dead
Post by: aquatix on March 30, 2009, 08:33:28 AM

Hello everyone,

Everything was fine until I started my SyilX4 Mill today and the Z axis is not moving.
The DROs show movement but it doesnt move.

All other axis operate normaly and in manual mode the Z also works fine.

I did not change any settings !

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Title: Re: Z axis is dead
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on March 30, 2009, 09:26:32 AM

Have you checked that your GCode program does not have the feedrate set too high ? (there is probably more load on the Z axis than the X and Y).

Tweakie.

Title: Re: Z axis is dead
Post by: Hood on March 30, 2009, 02:13:30 PM

Whast do you mean by manual mode, is that jogging via keyboard?
Please attach the xml for the profile you are using.
Hood

Title: Re: Z axis is dead
Post by: aquatix on March 30, 2009, 05:16:00 PM

No I mean with the handheld controller that it works ok.
From mach3 moving the cursors  I only get movement for X Y C and not for Z eventhough the DROs show movement.

Title: Re: Z axis is dead
Post by: Hood on March 30, 2009, 05:22:28 PM

Is it still through Mach when using this handheld controller or is it a totally independant thing that does not require Mach?
Hood

Title: Re: Z axis is dead
Post by: aquatix on April 02, 2009, 11:38:41 AM

It is handheld controller externally from mach3.

Anyways I solved the problem reading through some older posts.

It was the  serial cable. I bought a new one and everything was back in order!
It seems that only pin 16 (Z for SyilX4) was damaged.

Thank you