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General Mach Discussion / Re: y axis problem
« on: May 12, 2012, 06:10:30 PM »
I thought I would post my findings incase anyone else has this issue. I decided to cut tick marks on a 2 inch disc since the Y axis would not be moving. The A axis moved 10 degrees as it was supposed to for the first cut. But it did not rotate properly to make the 20 degree tick mark second cut, and hardly even turned for the thirty degree tick mark. I went to the MDI screen and prompted G0 A10 and it rewound quickly to 10 degrees except it wasnt where the first cut had been made. After a trying a couple of MDI prompts with no problems and rechecking that the problem persists when running the program I thought to check the G540 for heat. Yep hot as a fire cracker. I cut a hole in the top of the controller box and installed a Dayton axial fan. the controll box already had slots for air flow but it didnt have a fan. Problem solved.