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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: June 02, 2009, 11:26:11 AM »

Well... it's me again....

since I put a fresh English windows xp everything seems to be correct, so the moral is do not put anything you don't need in your mach partition

thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 23, 2009, 04:10:41 AM »

Well...

I have changed the stepper and the driver and the problem persists.

Have tested with the oscilloscope and the driver continues to receive pulses when mach3 goes nuts, but the DRO does not updates correctly but haven't been able to reproduce the problem consistently, so I can´'t give a base to investigate the problem.

Now I am going to install a second hard disk with a fresh english windows XP installation and will install only mach3 on this disk just to see if this solves the problem.

will give some news in a few days.

Regards: Octavio

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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 11, 2009, 11:16:48 AM »

it is licenced, will send you a privete message

Octavio

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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 11, 2009, 11:02:41 AM »

have already changer the driver, but will try to change the stepper as have an spare one

will get back with results, but as the fail only happens from time to time will take some days to have an asnwer

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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 11, 2009, 10:48:04 AM »

I thought about noise, but that will trigger an step here and there, but when the system "gets crazy" it keeps moving at the same speed ( it doesn't matters it it is F30 F100 or F55 ) and noise from steppers is as smooth as in any other move.

When the system doesn't get crazy, most of the times it works perfectly, the result is as expected and have never seen lost steps. Have put a micrometer and repeated movements up to two hundred times and repeatability is correct.

So is that I am lost, thinking about incompatibility with any other soft, antiviral or so.

Thanks for your efforts

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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 11, 2009, 09:57:17 AM »

I have seen the machine moving up to 3mm more than expected, my machine is a proxxon mf70 ( a toy I know ) and it has 1mm movevent per turn so it is up to three complete turns ( approx ) at 4 microsteps that makes about 2400 steps.

Also there is no way of mechanical slip, the stepper has a flat in its axis and the "long screw" ( cant rememnber the english word ) has also a mechanical blocking, in short , no way for a mechanical slip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 11, 2009, 08:30:55 AM »

The DRO does not reflect the offset and it is not lost steps, it is a lot more steps sent to the controller, also the z movement is made very slow and the machine has a lot more torque than really needed.

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General Mach Discussion / extrange behavior in Z axis

« on: May 11, 2009, 08:07:43 AM »

Dear friends, something weird is happening me from time to time.

I will explain

I create a piece in cambam and export gcode, i verify the g code by hand ( you know what i mean ) and also with a couple of simulators, also in mach the gcode seems to be correct...

Well the problem is that sometimes, can not reproduce the problem consistently, the z axis gos lower than expected, lets say that the progarm says to go z-10 and ig goes to z-13 and from then on everything is done with this -3 offset, so when it is instructed to go to z1.5 it is really on z-1.5 and... piece damaged, mill broken, etc...

The explanation given is just an example, it can have -3 added or maybe -1.0935 or whathever, the problem is that z goes down more than expected, but if the gcode is reexecuted it will work correctly and maybe tomorrow it will fail again but in a different line of code.

I have only seen this problem with the Z axis

Any clues?

Sorry about my english :-)