Just to follow up on this earlier post.
But, I'm taking a bit of a wild guess and thinking that you are only
driving ONE of the motor's two phases.
This was indeed what the problem was.
Using the method Jon suggested (below) we found there was no power
coming into one phase of the motor.
We
darcys...@gmail.com pravi:
Hi all,
I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC
machine that I have on loan.
The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the settings I
dug out from data sheets for the driver chips and motors.
X and Y are working well, but
.
- Original Message -
From: Slavko Kocjancic esla...@gmail.com
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Random Direction Changes
darcys...@gmail.com pravi:
Hi all,
I am experiencing some odd
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Random Direction Changes
darcys...@gmail.com pravi:
Hi all,
I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC
machine that I have on loan.
The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the
settings I
dug out from data sheets for the driver
Hi all,
I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC
machine that I have on loan.
The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the settings I
dug out from data sheets for the driver chips and motors.
X and Y are working well, but Z (which has a similarly spec'ed
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:26:28PM -0400, darcys...@gmail.com wrote:
The basic behavior is that when you push the jog button in a certain
direction you don't know which direction it will go.
It will maintain it's course in that direction, but when releasing the
button and pressing it
darcys...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC
machine that I have on loan.
The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the settings I
dug out from data sheets for the driver chips and motors.
X and Y are working well,
darcys...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am experiencing some odd direction changes on a home-brew CNC
machine that I have on loan.
The machine was apparently purchased off ebay, and all the settings I
dug out from data sheets for the driver chips and motors.
X and Y are working well, but
