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General Mach Discussion / Re: Good or bad stepper motor?

« on: April 15, 2007, 02:09:55 AM »

Hi
I will try all this in a few days, but first the wife wants a room painted. Now the problems start.
I will also post this on hobby cnc forum. The board is a HOBBY CNC 4AUPC.
No tuning post.
Get back in a few days

Roger

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General Mach Discussion / Good or bad stepper motor?

« on: April 14, 2007, 03:58:25 PM »

 I have finally got my machine working and cutting good. But there may be a problem with my motors.
140oz stepper 8 wire, Hobby cnc board.

At very low speeds you can here the motor turn its steps. Y axis seems louder that the X axis. The X gantry is built in steel but the Y is built in timber (main frame). I was thinking that is because ones set in timber and the others steel. So I removed the motors and held the to together on a board. Ran Mach3 then ran each motor at low speed. Doing about 20 rpm the vibration on one motor is twice as loud as the other.
Every thing is set the same for both motors.

Is this normal or do I have a doggy motor?
Cutting is fine at the moment.

Roger

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Missing steps

« on: April 13, 2007, 03:07:42 PM »

Brian

Changed to Sherline mode and run the same code. OK. Cut first time and no problems. Nice.

Now then. One more thing.
My Y axis motor sounds like its tight. When I turn the power of I can turn the shaft with my fingers. Vcarve has a door panel. I thought I would try this next. Run the code and got halfway up the door on a straight run then my Y axis stalled. Now I’m thinking that there could be something wrong with the motor also. All though the first cut of the bulls head was OK but then I did change to Sherline mode. Tomorrow I will swap over my X Y motors to see if it still dose it.

Thanks Brian

Roger

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Missing steps

« on: April 12, 2007, 02:24:23 PM »

Hi all

Un-checked the enhanced pulsing Hood and every thing stop all together so checked it back in and restarted.

I don’t know if the back lash is on I have never been there If its off at default then I would say its off. Its never been touched.
I will try Sherline mode tomorrow. It’s late and I have locked up.

Something to add my motor stall at 1500mm per min. It runs nice at 1000 but I have set them to 500.

Roger

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Missing steps

« on: April 12, 2007, 03:07:33 AM »

Hi Hood

I have slowed down the Vel andAcc two thirds and done another cut. The same happened. Enhanced pulsing? Should this be checked or unchecked? Ill have a look tonight.

Regards
Roger

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General Mach Discussion / Missing steps

« on: April 12, 2007, 02:48:21 AM »

Hi All
I thought I had done it but I didn’t. I have been messing and building my router now for about a year. I have now got to the stage were I can cut something. My setup was.

Hobby cnc board
140oz steppers 8 wire
X 20dia screw
Y 20dia screw
Z16dia screw all stainless steel.

computer was
500Mz process
256ram
and nVidia 64meg card
with win 2000

I have cut out shapes to see it working. It goes very good and is a good feeling.
Last week I downloaded Vcarve demo and put in the Bulls head sign test file.
I was amazed what this was doing. Then after 5-10 minutes I heard the motors stall and the DRO kept going then the motors started and cut well off line. So I looked through the forum to pick up some tips. I thought, computer. So yesterday I bought some bits and built a new one just for my machine.

Processor 3.3Gz
Ram 512MB
64MB nVidia card on board
win 2000

Last night set it all up and it was so quick loading and changing screens. But guess what, it done it again. Same code different position.

Roger