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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: dlbjcksn on November 10, 2010, 10:05:07 PM

Title: Motors work right when windows starts up and then stop after a minute or two
Post by: dlbjcksn on November 10, 2010, 10:05:07 PM

I recently bought mach 3 and a Fireball cnc maching with motors from Probotix.  I am having trouble getting the motors to run. 

If I start up windows and fire up mach 3 right away and jog the motors they run perfectly and nice and smooth.  Then after a little while they start making alot of noise and move in jerky steps.  I tried going through the windows xp setup on the machsupport website and it still acts weird.

I am running it on a desktop computer with a 1.8ghz AMD Athlon XP 2200 processor and 1GB of RAM.

Title: Re: Motors work right when windows starts up and then stop after a minute or two
Post by: Hood on November 11, 2010, 02:22:18 AM

What does the driver test look like when you run it? What kernel do you have set?
Hood

Title: Re: Motors work right when windows starts up and then stop after a minute or two
Post by: RICH on November 11, 2010, 05:21:31 AM

Post info on the motor drives  or controller you are using.
RICH

Title: Re: Motors work right when windows starts up and then stop after a minute or two
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on November 11, 2010, 11:57:23 AM

dlbjcksn,

Is anything getting hot ?

Tweakie.