Gregg, I did that, well mostly. I rechecked and tightened every encoder connector, although not necessarily disconnecting and reconnecting.
The housing for the line drivers rides in the gantry, so is in motion. Those were the first connectors I checked. I can do a more thorough job, but saw no difference after tightening them up. Thanks, Eric On November 1, 2017 7:54:32 PM EDT, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >Basics first. Disconnect power, unplug and re-connect all plugs, loosen >and tighten all screw terminals. Re-test. Eliminates any minor >corrosion or possible looseness causing an intermittent. > > >On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 5:47:05 PM MDT, Eric H. Johnson ><ejohn...@camalytics.com> wrote: > > All, > > >A machine (table) that has been running for about three months has >developed >an odd problem in the last couple weeks. Not sure if it has been >getting >worse or if just the nature of the patterns being run has made the >problem >more pronounced. The machine is an XYYA configuration with a pneumatic >Z, >and using mainly Mesa boards. The problem is in the A axis. It seems to >be >losing encoder counts at very low speed, but not otherwise. It took a >bit to >track down because when I initially had it moving multiple rotations I >could >not get any errors running A by itself. Running with a feed rate in >excess >of 20000 (Degs per min), resulted in no errors. Slowing down to 10000 >started to show a very small amount of error, and from 5000 on down the >error was very pronounced. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
