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General Mach Discussion / Iissues with my cnc router
« on: February 01, 2014, 02:33:06 PM »
Hello,
Can some one give me guidance on what I may be doing wrong.
I had purchased a cnc router and after having it for a few years I wanted to add a 4th axis
I purchased all the components that I needed and I matched exactly what I had existing in the machine.
stepper motor- Sure step STP-MTR 23079
stepper driver- Geckodrive G201
I matched the wiring as I saw it wired on the other motors and drives and I went into Mach 3 and enabled the 4th axis.
This is what I did so far:
Under ports and pins I enabled the A axis using step pin #8 and dir pin #9 step port 1 and dir port 1
Input signals A home enabled Port#1 Pin #14
Toolpath config A rotations enabled
I turned off the A axis inhibits under the settings tab
I tried to use the rotary and it worked but all 3 other axis when they move have a kind of grinding moaning noise.
I looked at the driver and miss read the power requirements and thought maybe there wasn't enough power, the power supply was on the low end but it was in the requirements.
Now I have a power supply on the middle to upper end and I still have the same problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Greg
Can some one give me guidance on what I may be doing wrong.
I had purchased a cnc router and after having it for a few years I wanted to add a 4th axis
I purchased all the components that I needed and I matched exactly what I had existing in the machine.
stepper motor- Sure step STP-MTR 23079
stepper driver- Geckodrive G201
I matched the wiring as I saw it wired on the other motors and drives and I went into Mach 3 and enabled the 4th axis.
This is what I did so far:
Under ports and pins I enabled the A axis using step pin #8 and dir pin #9 step port 1 and dir port 1
Input signals A home enabled Port#1 Pin #14
Toolpath config A rotations enabled
I turned off the A axis inhibits under the settings tab
I tried to use the rotary and it worked but all 3 other axis when they move have a kind of grinding moaning noise.
I looked at the driver and miss read the power requirements and thought maybe there wasn't enough power, the power supply was on the low end but it was in the requirements.
Now I have a power supply on the middle to upper end and I still have the same problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Greg