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General Mach Discussion / motor tuning
« on: May 14, 2009, 02:50:20 PM »
I can't get the motor tuning screen, nothing happens. I am trying to setup with a smoothstepper if that makes a difference. The problem I have is numerous to start with.
I had it on a laptop with a parallel port and everything worked fine but slow, would burn wood. (it was a loaner computer).
bought a smoothstepper, put everything on a different laptop and everything looked fine, except I got crop circles, errors in the g-code, and distance differences, rapids to fast for the motors.
I could run the same g-code on my house computer, no error, no crop circles. I think that is gone now, I think I am getting sleep deprived.
Now everything is 1/2 or 1/4 the size it should be. I can't get the motor tuning screen, I click on it and nothing happens, the drop down just goes away, and if I use the settings window to adjust the steps, the rapids are way to fast for the machine.
I had it on a laptop with a parallel port and everything worked fine but slow, would burn wood. (it was a loaner computer).
bought a smoothstepper, put everything on a different laptop and everything looked fine, except I got crop circles, errors in the g-code, and distance differences, rapids to fast for the motors.
I could run the same g-code on my house computer, no error, no crop circles. I think that is gone now, I think I am getting sleep deprived.
Now everything is 1/2 or 1/4 the size it should be. I can't get the motor tuning screen, I click on it and nothing happens, the drop down just goes away, and if I use the settings window to adjust the steps, the rapids are way to fast for the machine.