brucehiggins
06-14-2008, 01:27 AM
Tuesday my shopbot started cutting sloppy and I found out one of the x-axis step motors wasn't working. Swapped the 2 x-axis gecko controllers and the other quit working. Swapped them back and they both started working. Today after cutting a carving that took over an hour, I changed bits for 5 minutes of flat clearance cutting and it stopped working again (cut sloppy). I powered the shopbot controller off and on and it started working again. Monday I am ordering a spare gecko drive or two - does that sound like what the problem is? Do they sometimes get flakey before they quit working or could I have a bad connection somewhere?
One small sign I made on tuesday had an interesting hand made look. Had me stumped for a bit - couldn't figure out what would all of the sudden cause the machine to loose precision but still basically cut what it was supposed to.
Bruce
One small sign I made on tuesday had an interesting hand made look. Had me stumped for a bit - couldn't figure out what would all of the sudden cause the machine to loose precision but still basically cut what it was supposed to.
Bruce