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General Mach Discussion / Re: Am I loosing steps?
« on: March 14, 2011, 03:18:25 AM »
That odd tick from a stepper is the symptom of lost (or additional) steps. On my machine one lost step would equal 0.003mm and you would be hard pushed to notice a few of those as an inaccuracy.
It is not recommended to use laptops with Mach unless a separate motion controller (such as Smooth Stepper) is used. There are many reasons why laptops cause problems and you could be lucky and locate the problem early on or you could be chasing this forever.
I would suggest you either get a SS or use a machine dedicated PC then use your IBM for internet / programming etc.
Tweakie.
It is not recommended to use laptops with Mach unless a separate motion controller (such as Smooth Stepper) is used. There are many reasons why laptops cause problems and you could be lucky and locate the problem early on or you could be chasing this forever.
I would suggest you either get a SS or use a machine dedicated PC then use your IBM for internet / programming etc.
Tweakie.