bahed
04-17-2008, 06:40 PM
I have been attempting to probe an object every night, trying different things with the same results - except once.
Let me back up and say I have a fairly new PRS Std BT32 and I use a Fein III to hold down the object, and this was the first week I have been using my probe - which is new as well.
The very first time I ran the probe routine I was using 3.4.3 (I believe, or whatever it came with last fall). I ran it with pretty low resolution: 0.1" in both X & Y over a roughly 12" x 16" object and it took about 3 hours. It wasn't bad, but I though the resolution could be improved. I called ShopBot for a little advice and was told to keep practicing using different settings to get a feel for it and to upgrade to 3.5.8. Pretty good advice.
I increased the resolution by 1 order of magnitude to 0.0333" in both the X & Y axes with an estimated time of 30 hours to complete based on partial completion estimates. However, the probe now runs around 6 - 8 hours before it stops. The first computer I used was an older Dell running Windows XP, it has no internet connection whatsoever and I disabled all SpyBot software, any hibernation affiliations, etc. - still same results - I thought maybe bad Power Supply ?
I then tried my 3 year old Dell Latitude lap top, and went through and disabled everything. Same results.
I have developed a whole lot of .dmp files but don't know what to make of them.
Suggestions ?
Bret
Let me back up and say I have a fairly new PRS Std BT32 and I use a Fein III to hold down the object, and this was the first week I have been using my probe - which is new as well.
The very first time I ran the probe routine I was using 3.4.3 (I believe, or whatever it came with last fall). I ran it with pretty low resolution: 0.1" in both X & Y over a roughly 12" x 16" object and it took about 3 hours. It wasn't bad, but I though the resolution could be improved. I called ShopBot for a little advice and was told to keep practicing using different settings to get a feel for it and to upgrade to 3.5.8. Pretty good advice.
I increased the resolution by 1 order of magnitude to 0.0333" in both the X & Y axes with an estimated time of 30 hours to complete based on partial completion estimates. However, the probe now runs around 6 - 8 hours before it stops. The first computer I used was an older Dell running Windows XP, it has no internet connection whatsoever and I disabled all SpyBot software, any hibernation affiliations, etc. - still same results - I thought maybe bad Power Supply ?
I then tried my 3 year old Dell Latitude lap top, and went through and disabled everything. Same results.
I have developed a whole lot of .dmp files but don't know what to make of them.
Suggestions ?
Bret