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SmoothStepper USB / Re: If you have noise issues this might be worth a try
« on: February 01, 2012, 01:03:11 AM »
I would like to say a big thank you to all who have contributed to the solution of this frustrating issue.
I was on the point of ditching my SS as it was more trouble than it was worth, but it is now working a box of fluffy ones.
The SS would error simple by turning on the Dust collector or even my vacuum cleaner. I was too scared to go near the dam thing while it was cutting in case it failed and even then it still stopped for no apparent reason.
I did the removal of the Capacitor and resistor from the board and there was an instant improvement. I could still trip the SS with my Dust collector but it was now hard to do and I had to flick it on and off in a way it would never be used to do it. In real world testing the SS would still fail intermittently but nothing like it did previously and I was able to work in my workshop again without fear.
Just before I found the mod I had ordered some ferrite cores for my USB cables and they turned up in the mail 2 weeks after I did the mod. I had nothing to loose so I clamp a ferrite coe on every end of the USB cables and 2 on the one going into the SS. If it's worth doing, it's worth over doing.
That was a month ago and I haven't had a single failure since.
I passed my findings onto a few other people who were having problems and it has fixed their issues as well.
I can recommend the mod to anyone have issues and also adding Ferrite cores for good measure
I was on the point of ditching my SS as it was more trouble than it was worth, but it is now working a box of fluffy ones.
The SS would error simple by turning on the Dust collector or even my vacuum cleaner. I was too scared to go near the dam thing while it was cutting in case it failed and even then it still stopped for no apparent reason.
I did the removal of the Capacitor and resistor from the board and there was an instant improvement. I could still trip the SS with my Dust collector but it was now hard to do and I had to flick it on and off in a way it would never be used to do it. In real world testing the SS would still fail intermittently but nothing like it did previously and I was able to work in my workshop again without fear.
Just before I found the mod I had ordered some ferrite cores for my USB cables and they turned up in the mail 2 weeks after I did the mod. I had nothing to loose so I clamp a ferrite coe on every end of the USB cables and 2 on the one going into the SS. If it's worth doing, it's worth over doing.
That was a month ago and I haven't had a single failure since.
I passed my findings onto a few other people who were having problems and it has fixed their issues as well.
I can recommend the mod to anyone have issues and also adding Ferrite cores for good measure