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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 07:19:54 PM »

I'm pretty sure I do -- they have a 3/8th screw and the x has a 1/2. And they all worked perfectly this morning.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 07:15:01 PM »

here, I think.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 07:03:18 PM »

I'm set up in inches, and I would guess that it moved about 10/min. Re: the xml, is it the backupxml in the mach folder?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 06:56:10 PM »

No volt meter, but checked Config and the Enhanced Pulsing is enabled. The G1X2F10 moved very slowly and made a clicking sound.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 06:46:18 PM »

They moved but they sounded terrible.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 06:35:06 PM »

I don't know how to do that, but if you'll give me the steps I will try it.
Bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 06:31:29 PM »

Hi Hood,
They were working fine and sounding good at about 40 inches per minute w/ an acceleration of about 30/sec/sec, but I just reset them all the way down to 10 in/min and 6/sec/sec, then all the way up to 60/40, and several stops in between. The result was various tones of horrible.

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General Mach Discussion / Buzzing steppers

« on: January 03, 2009, 05:38:24 PM »

The latest puzzle....my y and z stepper motors seem to work ok when they are following Gcode but I can't jog with them -- they just give off a loud buzzing noise. Anyone know what the cause might be?
Thanks, Bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: License not activated?

« on: January 01, 2009, 01:21:10 PM »

Hi Hood,
Yeah, I have the step over set backwards, which should speed things up immensely. By the limit amount of Gcode, I meant is there a limit with the license activated? Mine is now, and I ran about 16000 lines last night, which is about 10% of what I want to do. I understand that I can break it up and do it in shifts, but that complicates it.
Thanks and Best Wishes for the New Year,
Bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: License not activated?

« on: January 01, 2009, 02:12:06 AM »

Thanks again, Hood....that fixed it. Is there a limit to the amount of Gcode you can load? Also, I think I may have the step over concept backwards. If you set the step over for 5%, does that mean you are cutting 95% new material with each pass?
All the best, Bob