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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z axis motor going crazy (need help)

« on: June 20, 2017, 09:02:36 PM »

I think that it might be a heat problem, it had been really hot here for the past few days and I have been running my machines a lot. I have two of the same machines and one started having this problem a few days again, just today my second machine is having the same problem... you think it could be caused by the heat? I will switch out the motor for a new one to see if the heat just killed the motor, I hope it didn't affect my driver. But I need to get things up and running fast I run a small business off of these machines and I need them up and running! If anyone has suggestions for me to try please let me know!

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General Mach Discussion / Z axis motor going crazy (need help)

« on: June 19, 2017, 09:23:36 PM »

I have had my machine for a year now and have been running it a lot though out the year. I have had not problems till a few days ago my z axis motor started to act up. It basically will go up sometimes then it will go down! then it will got down when is is supposed to go up then up when it is supposed to go down. Then it will work fine for a split second then do it again.... I re-wired everything so it is not the wiring, I then went into motor tuning and turned everything way down and it is still going crazy. Is my motor bad? do I just need a new motor? has anyone else had this problem?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: problems with Zeroing my machine. TRIED EVERYTHING NEED SOME HELP!!

« on: October 13, 2016, 01:09:06 AM »

I guess I could try and change the resistors on the new machine to 2.8k ohm and see if that will help. But I don't see why it would make that big of a difference.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: problems with Zeroing my machine. TRIED EVERYTHING NEED SOME HELP!!

« on: October 13, 2016, 01:07:13 AM »

It is the x axis and the y axis that are off they both will be off but the z axis is just fine. My motors at 2.8 current rating and I have 2.2k Ohm Resistors, 1/4 W, 5% resitors going from pin 1 to pin 5. I know that I should have 2.8k ohm resistors but on my old machine I had these resistors and my motors would get really hot so I switched them out for 2.2k and it works great.

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General Mach Discussion / problems with Zeroing my machine. TRIED EVERYTHING NEED SOME HELP!!

« on: October 12, 2016, 10:07:39 PM »

Alright at the beginning on this year I build a cnc machine using the gecko g540 and mach3. I got it running and it has been running just about every day with no problems! I just recently build another machine exactly like the first one but with this on I am having a heck of a time. I have it all set up and started to run my first program on it and it started to fade of to the right of the work piece about 1/4 of an inch. I stopped the program and zeroed my machine and when it went back to zero it was off about 1/4 of an inch from where it should have zeroed. So I have check and made sure that my rails are good and not binding or anything then ran it again and the same thing happened well then I check my bearings and my pulleys and made sure the belt was good and not off. After this I ran it again and it still did the same thing! So I thought it might be my stepper motor so I had a new one laying around and replaced it with that one and ran the program again. It didn't make a difference it did the same thing it was off about 1/4 of and inch when I went to zero it. I have checked the motor tuning on mach3 it should all be the same as my other machine because I just copied the xml from that machine to the new one. I am just out of ideas! I have no idea what it is doing and why it is doing it. Could it be mach3? has anyone else had this problem?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Got a new computer now my machine wont work.

« on: May 03, 2016, 02:09:55 AM »

Alright thanks for your help I will get one of these then.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Got a new computer now my machine wont work.

« on: May 03, 2016, 02:01:41 AM »

If I puchased this product https://www.inventables.com/technologies/usb-motion-controller would it enable me to run mach3 with my windows ten from a usb?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Got a new computer now my machine wont work.

« on: May 03, 2016, 01:19:23 AM »

really? what would prevent it from working on windows 10?

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General Mach Discussion / Got a new computer now my machine wont work.

« on: May 03, 2016, 12:29:34 AM »

Alight so I have mach3 and am running my cnc mill with a gecko g540. I have been running this with an old xp computer and wanted to upgrade to a better computer that is running windows 10. So I bought one and whiched everything over to the new computer and had no problem installing mach3 and I imported my XML file so that all the setting would be the same. But when I open up mach3 and go to move the machine nothing happens! I have tried everything! I have changed the parallel port mode in the bios to EPP and then to ECP and then to PS/2. Non of this worked so I tried messing around with the ports in mach3 but nothing seems to work! when I start up my computer I can here the motors engage but when I open up mach3 nothing! I have been working at this all day and can not figure it out. Does anyone have any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need some advice!

« on: April 23, 2016, 05:29:35 PM »

Thanks guys! This helped out a ton! Ill have to play around on it to see what works. Ger21 yeah it is 27,000 rpms and 30ipm. The final pass wounds like a really good idea!