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Status: Reported Concern
Status: Reported Concern
Member Report (Andrew Argraves): The CNC appears to have a homing error, the Z axis motor rumbles and does not seem to reliably increment or decrement the carriage Z axis position. The machine is unable to initialize due to the homing error. This occurred on Oct 16 when I saw that the depth of my cut was misconfigured. Rather than cutting into the wood, the bit was traveling far above it. The router bit never made contact with material. I hit "stop" so that I could edit the carbide create file and then restart the process, but at this point the homing error began. I tried to take some diagnostic steps based off of the error log and online searches to no avail. It appears that the carbide motion program is from 2022 and is not up to date, that might be something worth resolving. I did manually try to increment the z-axis by sending manual commands. The motor does rotate, but the carriage only seems to go down. I suspect this is because the motor isn't making good contact with the height adjustment screw, and so as the system vibrates the weight of the carriage pulls the system down. Anyway, not much I can do without taking apart the machine, which I won't do haha. Sorry about this. Happy to answer any more questions. I also have an error log file, which I cannot attach here unfortunately. -Andrew
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Larry Backes · Manufacturing for Sale
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A desktop CNC Mill for cutting specific shapes from a variety of materials. Cutting area of 33"x33"x4".

 

Program: Carbide Create

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