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General Mach Discussion / Newbie with an intermittent slave axis direction reverse
« on: October 15, 2013, 08:01:28 AM »
Hello All!
Glad to be here. After years with a Techno Da Vinci machine, with a sealed in German steel controller, it's liberating to find Mach 3 which came with my older K2 5050 craigslist purchase.(it's HUGE in comparison)
All is wonderful, except, when jogging or running a long gcode, the machine racks as the Y axis goes one way and the A axis another. The machine homes properly (most of the time), jogs ok most of the time and runs the code until the occasional y axis code sends the axis heading in opposite directions.
Wires and connections look ok, and the guy who sold it to me, said it ran well. So where does the newbie begin? US Digital encoders? Gecko Servo Drives? The ever mysterious Parallel port on an old laptop?
Thanks,
MitchellT
Glad to be here. After years with a Techno Da Vinci machine, with a sealed in German steel controller, it's liberating to find Mach 3 which came with my older K2 5050 craigslist purchase.(it's HUGE in comparison)
All is wonderful, except, when jogging or running a long gcode, the machine racks as the Y axis goes one way and the A axis another. The machine homes properly (most of the time), jogs ok most of the time and runs the code until the occasional y axis code sends the axis heading in opposite directions.
Wires and connections look ok, and the guy who sold it to me, said it ran well. So where does the newbie begin? US Digital encoders? Gecko Servo Drives? The ever mysterious Parallel port on an old laptop?
Thanks,
MitchellT