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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pierce delay for plasma
« on: February 18, 2011, 05:04:44 AM »
which one Matt?
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What would the belt do to drop steps? Too tight/too lose? I didn't do the belts up extremely tight, but they aren't loose either.
Basically, I have 2 belts to move the X axis, with 2 steppers on each belt (4 steppers in total)and presumably the other two are wired onto channel X on the controller board?
2 of these steppers are wired onto channel A on my controller board, and slaved.
I can see that microstepping is not working exactly as one might naively expect and I'm seeing an effective "average" single step size of around a micron which is double what it "ought" to be.Lost me there John. Microstep errors are non-accumulative so in your case with a microstepping factor of 8, the average should be an 1/8th of a full step.