Today it started to vibrate, shake and wouldn't move in any direction, and before that the roughing pass started to repeat what it had already done and then started to move off of the board etc.
just crazy stuff that it had never done ever before. I noticed that the X and Z location settings were accurate on the screen, but the Y axis reading of it's location on the table was not correct.
I had an Art code error late last week that prevented any of the motors from moving due to a communication problem with the profile file in the Mach3 software. I got that fixed last night
with the person who sold me the machine. While we were in the process of correcting the issue, he had me go into the config file related to the motor settings (steps, velocity and acceleration).
he set the X,Y and Z all to the same settings: 4000 steps, 100.02 velocity and 20 acceleration
Are these the correct settings for my machine? or should they be set differently given the following specs of my machine:
CNC Router Table Specs
- X travel 36 inches
- Y (gantry) travel 24 inches
- Z (vertical) travel 5.5 inches (minus spoil board thickness)
- Rack and pinion for X
- 5 start ACME drive for Y
- 5 start ACME drive for Z
- Repeatability to +/-0.002" or better, accuracy to +/-0.005" or better
- 355oz High Torque Nema 23 stepper motors: Rapids up to 600 IPM+, cutting feed-rates 200 IPM+
- Accuracy of +/-0.005"
- Controller Gecko G540 3 axis stepper motor driver