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General Mach Discussion / Re: Suddenly Goto Zero isn't working right...

« on: December 09, 2010, 12:28:00 AM »

And you were all right... my max speed was set to about 27 in / minute and with microstepping to 16000 pulses per inch... it was just too dang fast... but only since the weather got colder... :-)  When I bought the mill in the summer time it worked fine

It's all working now though,  thanks to you all

--marcel

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Suddenly Goto Zero isn't working right...

« on: December 08, 2010, 08:45:26 AM »

ok, so that's interesting...

G0X4Y4 (it's a small mill).. The X moves 4", the Y stalls about 1/2 way
G0X4 the x stalls about 1/2 way
G0Y4 the y stalls about 1/2 way

G0X4Y4 (second try) Both axis stalled about 1/2 way.

sometimes I'm lucky and it will succeed, other times I'm not..
I'm beginning to suspect hardware... the computer is rather old..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Suddenly Goto Zero isn't working right...

« on: December 08, 2010, 12:10:00 AM »

Trying again.. changing the file name to protect the guilty..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Suddenly Goto Zero isn't working right...

« on: December 07, 2010, 10:55:14 PM »

Hmm Ok, something weird happened... I attached the file and hit the post button... but my message didn't appear to get posted.  When I tried a second time, it says my attached file already exists..

Forum seems to be acting flakey for me today...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Suddenly Goto Zero isn't working right...

« on: December 07, 2010, 03:43:46 PM »

I don't think that is the issue,  Like I said, it works fine during any milling operation or manual jog or in the "test" screens. 

The only thing that doesn't work is when I hit the "goto zero" button.

Everything else works fine..

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General Mach Discussion / Suddenly Goto Zero isn't working right...

« on: December 07, 2010, 12:09:06 PM »

I'm a relatively new Mach3 user (a month or two).  Things have been great! except...

A few days ago, goto zero stopped working correctly.  it drives the Y and Z axis correctly to the zero, but the X axis stepper just "buzzes" and doesn't move.  During actual milling operations all works fine, it's just the go to zero that fails.

Andy ideas??

--marcel