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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: octavioa on October 11, 2011, 03:11:42 PM

Title: Help with Motor Tuning
Post by: octavioa on October 11, 2011, 03:11:42 PM

Help

My K2 2514 mill is as follows:

3 - axis X,Y,Z
X - Kelig K23H286 425 oz-in
Y - same
Z - Kelig K23H276 282 oz-in
All 3 wired Bipolar (parallel)
Lead screw on all 3 axis 10 TPI
Using Kelig KL5042 Drivers on each motor
MACH3 set to 25000 kernel speed

I have set the micro-stepping to 1/8 which means
1600 turns/rev
In MACH3 - Motor Tuning - I have set the steps per
to 16000

Problem is when I send a command to travel 1" in
any direction, it only moves .2"

Any help would be appreciated.

Octavio

Title: Re: Help with Motor Tuning
Post by: BR549 on October 11, 2011, 07:09:10 PM

Sounds like you have metric and imperial modes mixed up somewhere.

(;-) TP

Title: Re: Help with Motor Tuning
Post by: Balhousie on October 11, 2011, 11:41:24 PM

When I reset my micro steps i had to reset my StepPerMinute setting in the setup page. I'm guessing this is your problem.
Regards, tonyNZ

Title: Re: Help with Motor Tuning
Post by: octavioa on October 13, 2011, 06:16:06 AM

Thank you both for your attempts to help -

But it was the dumbass operators fault - me.

It appears that the DIP switch for the micro steps is opposite
logic - up is off - down is on.

All is well now.