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Tangent Corner / Stepepr Motor Noise?
« on: January 11, 2011, 10:49:25 AM »
HI,
This is probably a stupid question, but this is my first venture into CNC so I don't know what to expect at this stage...
I have set up an old emco cnc5 with new steppers and a Gecko G540, the gecko is plugged into the emcos original 50v supply.
Everything seems to be wire correctly and the steppers are responding to Mach 3 and moving.
My question is: when the G540 is powered but the steppers are stationary how much noise should the stepper motors be making? Both of mine hum quite loudly and one has a fast ticking noise? If I swap motor cables the ticking swaps to the other motor so it seems to be to do with the differect signal coming form the g540, but should the motors be audible form just the holding current?
The other thing I noticed is when he G540 powers on I can't have a radio on in the house the g540 creates too much interference is this normal and is there any solution?
(not sure if this is the right forum to post this in maybe there is a gecko forum somewhere?)
Advise appreciated :-)
Thanks
Joel
This is probably a stupid question, but this is my first venture into CNC so I don't know what to expect at this stage...
I have set up an old emco cnc5 with new steppers and a Gecko G540, the gecko is plugged into the emcos original 50v supply.
Everything seems to be wire correctly and the steppers are responding to Mach 3 and moving.
My question is: when the G540 is powered but the steppers are stationary how much noise should the stepper motors be making? Both of mine hum quite loudly and one has a fast ticking noise? If I swap motor cables the ticking swaps to the other motor so it seems to be to do with the differect signal coming form the g540, but should the motors be audible form just the holding current?
The other thing I noticed is when he G540 powers on I can't have a radio on in the house the g540 creates too much interference is this normal and is there any solution?
(not sure if this is the right forum to post this in maybe there is a gecko forum somewhere?)
Advise appreciated :-)
Thanks
Joel