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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Little Help Please.

« on: March 08, 2010, 11:31:33 AM »

Hi guys,
O.k , I'll try your suggestions and take notes. Hopefully a little luck will be on my side. I'll let you know what happens, good or bad.
Thanks for all the help so far.
cdntoolmaker

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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Little Help Please.

« on: March 08, 2010, 10:41:05 AM »

All three motors are the same size. Their settings are very close when you look at the graph and it does run smoothly after the initial nudge to get it going.
cdntoolmaker

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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Little Help Please.

« on: March 08, 2010, 10:32:21 AM »

I don't think its the accel rate because I have been running this Deepgroove1 Taig for almost 4 years and it just started to happen. As for swapping out the drivers I think that's a little advanced for me as I am a toolmaker not an electrician. I can check voltage and for loose connection's but that would be the extent of it.
cdntoolmaker

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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Little Help Please.

« on: March 08, 2010, 09:34:00 AM »

Hi guys,

Thanks for the suggestions and information. Over the weekend I went through each connection and everything seems fine, there were no loose wires. What I did notice was when the up and down keys are pressed you hear the hum of the motor trying to move and when you give the hand wheel a touch or a slight nudge it starts to move. It is the same going up or down and at all areas of the column not just one spot. If I do this a couple of times it seems to warm up so to speak but then all of a sudden it stops engaging again when the button is pressed unless you give the hand wheel a nudge again. It almost seems that it is not getting enough initial torque to get it moving because when it's moving it sound and feels smooth all the way up and down the column.
Any ideas of what I can do or check next.

Thanks,
cdntoolmaker

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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Little Help Please.

« on: March 05, 2010, 05:16:21 PM »

Hi Hood,
Thanks for the responce. I can check for loose connections, but what do you mean by noise? How do I find and correct it?
Thanks,
cdntoolmaker

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General Mach Discussion / A Little Help Please.

« on: March 05, 2010, 03:49:25 PM »

On my Taig mill when jogging my Z axis using the up and down arrow keys the motor intermittently freezes almost like it is binding and sometimes the up goes in the minus direction. Also the Z axis will not start moving unless it is jumpstarted by hand. Does anybody have an answer for these problems or any suggestions? Just a final note about the binding. When the controller is off and no power is to the motor I can freely turn the headstock up and down using the hand crank. I am having no problems at all with X & Y axis. Please could someone help me....

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Upgrading Lazycam Pro

« on: October 06, 2007, 03:24:24 PM »

Thanks for your comments. I think I'll do the same. Install the new and let it replace the old.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Upgrading Lazycam Pro

« on: October 02, 2007, 05:56:36 PM »

Hi Everyone,
I'm a new to CNC and Lazycam.  I have purchased Lazycam Pro and have been doing pretty well with it. My question is how do I upgrade?
Do I just download the latest release of Lazy and it will replace the older version or do I have to do something first or after? I hope this is not a stupid question.  If it is sorry, but I had to ask it anyway. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Mike