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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z axis not repeatable
« on: December 05, 2014, 12:18:57 AM »
Thanks for the feedback. I discovered what the problem was by accident. I have a new machine that I just finished building and was testing the axis movement and getting ready to do the calibration of number of steps. It took around 10000 steps to move one inch and the machine that was having the problem had 2032.*********xx steps per unit. I looked at the gecko drives on the machine that was having trouble and it was set to half step mode. I changed it to 10 microscope and ran some tests. Problem solved. The older machine was using the older gecko drives that have jumpers to set the step mode. The newer machine has newer gecko drives that default to 10 microstep. Needless to say that axis runs much smoother now.
Thanks for the help!
Tim
Thanks for the help!
Tim