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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Jugster on December 15, 2013, 10:48:48 PM
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Hello
Its been a busy week but I just wrapped up some much needed revisions to my router. I built this machine about three years ago. Of course there were a few things that have been eating at me but I never had really addressed them. I changed my motor tuning on my z axis and slowed my rapids down and everything was good short of being a little slow. I had originally used and acme lead screw with an acetal anti backlash nut for z. A couple of weeks ago we had an IAI motor burn up, so I salvaged the lead screw and off I went. Originally I was running a 425 oz in motor. I opted to go with a 906 oz in for the new lead screw and a digital driver both of which I purchased from Keling INC. I had purchased other items from them so I decided to use them again. I had a higher voltage power supply that I had never used, so that saved me some extra cash. I got all my retrofit plates made last week and started installing at the first of this week. Last night I had everything wrapped up and wired and decided to call it a night. This afternoon I got the new motor calibrated and tuned. Wow what an upgrade. I am enclosing some before and after to picks to show the changes. The only issue I had was when I was increasing my speeds on the z axis in the motor tuning I started having problems with my shuttle pro. I restarted Mach and it displayed no shuttle found. After I rebooted the computer it started working again. Once again when I went into motor tuning it had another fit. Now this shuttle pro has had a rough life. Its been dropped numerous times. It just seems odd that it was fine until now. I cloned my configurations and made the changes so I would still have my original settings. Would any of this cause this problem? I rebooted and got it back working but when I went to jog after the program ended it was dead again. Manual control of the machine via the keyboard is still functional. I swapped usb ports once and got an error on the device manager. This made me think it was a shuttle pro problem. Rebooted the computer and plugged it back in and it recognized at that time. I was just debating on getting a better pendant or is this a problem I have created. Three years into to this stuff and I learn something new everyday. One step forward and two steps back!!!! As always thanks for the help.