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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #10 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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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2009, 07:06:42 PM »
not the backup, its the one you are using now I need. If you are using the standard Mill profile it will be called Mach3Mill.xml  You may not see the xml extension if you have windows default which hides them so look in C:\Mach3 for a file called Mach3Mill and the icon of it looks like a piece of paper with the globe on it.

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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2009, 07:15:01 PM »
here, I think.

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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2009, 07:17:59 PM »
Do you have the steps per unit right for the Y and Z, they are different than your X but that may be correct.
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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #14 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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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2009, 07:24:20 PM »
ok thats fine. I have looked through your xml and so far dont see anything major wrong. If you have seperate drives might be an idea to swap them around and see if the problem follows the drive as I am thinking it sounds like a hradware issue.
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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2009, 07:27:11 PM »
Can I do that by changing the ports and pins settings? It seems strange that 2 of the 3 drives would partially fail at the same moment.

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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2009, 07:30:32 PM »
You could change the pins, it would show whether its a software issue if you did that, if the problem followed the pins then its software, if not then hardware. I am off for some sleep (12:30 here ) so hopefully you will get some help from someone else if you cant find the issue.

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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2009, 07:36:52 PM »
Thanks, Hood, I will try to figure it out.
All the best, Bob

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Re: Buzzing steppers
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2009, 09:16:33 PM »
Did you try changeing the pins? If so, how did it go?

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