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Third party software and hardware support forums. => SmoothStepper USB => Topic started by: Mojito on October 16, 2009, 07:57:43 PM

Title: E-Stop issue
Post by: Mojito on October 16, 2009, 07:57:43 PM

Hello all,

What a deal for a Friday evening!  So what I have is a SmoothStepper connected to a C17 Master Control from CNC4PC, and also a C14 Dual relay board.  Everything works wonderful, all my axis's work, and everything else is going great until I turn off my coolant relay.   Every time I do that it trips the e-stop circuit of the C17 which stops everything!

Is there anybody else who has came across something like this? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Ryan

Title: Re: E-Stop issue
Post by: Hood on October 23, 2009, 05:24:39 PM

Increase the filtering in the SS config.
Hood

Title: Re: E-Stop issue
Post by: jasonjetski on December 13, 2009, 05:48:24 AM

 Hi Guys,
 Iam not sure if this is similar to my issue,but I use mach3 and smoothstepper.
 When I set it up and let it run,I normally go off and do something else.
What happens is nearly every time I switch an appliance on or off in the house,Mach3 just hangs.I don't know if that is the correct wording.
Anyway,all the steppers stop moving,No messages are shown on Mach3,but when I move the mouse then,I see the curser is an hourglass and won't clear itself until I pull the USB cable out.Then the curser returns,But I still need to restart Mach3.It doesn't do this everytime I switch an appliance on or off either.Just at the worst times normally.
 Is this enough clues?
 Regards Jason

Title: Re: E-Stop issue
Post by: Hood on December 13, 2009, 06:31:22 AM

Have you tried increasing the filtering in the SmoothStepper config?
Hood

Title: Re: E-Stop issue
Post by: Jeff_Birt on December 13, 2009, 10:42:17 PM

I would suspect that you have a noise problem. It is very unlikely that an appliance in your house is causing an issue unless it is a really big appliance connected to the exact same circuit. A more likely candidate is poor grounding or your spindle motor. One way to test to see if it is the spindle motor is to air cut a program and unplug the spindle. If it works fine then you have a spindle noise issue, if not then you perhaps have a grounding issue.

Title: Re: E-Stop issue
Post by: chrisjh on December 17, 2009, 12:54:42 AM

I had exactly the same issue.  Under "General Config" I changed Input Signal Debouncing/Noise Rejection to the following settings:

Debounce Interval ----> 500

Index Debounce ---> 30

I haven't had the EStop trigger when selecting the coolant relay on or off since.

Regards

chrisjh