Good Afternoon
Do not know if this is the place to post but... I have a CNC machine that was doing well until I changed the size on my motors. This is a pretty basic 3-axis machine using Mach3 as the interface. A friend of mine(who has a decent sized business manufacturing another brand of CNC) said to check to see if the gear on the new/larger motors is correct for the size motor. The man that manufactured my machine says that I have a setting wrong in the turns per inch for the motor. Where do I go to find that specific information on Mach3? Does it seem like option A or B is more viable? What my problem is that the carriage (for lack of a better word) jogs in the X direction goes one direction fine but then when I use the arrow keys to come back the carriage movement is good for a few moments then it binds, gets stuck, acts sluggish... then I hit the other arrow and sometimes it will most times it will not. It does not matter one iota where the carriage starts it simply moves freely for a few then it binds up. Could this be something too tight in the carriage- even though all the ball bearings are making contact and spinning ... Yes I can take my hand and move the carriage any direction even when the motors seem stuck.... Where do I turn for help in this? When I moved to larger motors the manufacturer of my machine used larger gears on the motors and said they were sized correctly. Sincerely fasote from Durham NC.
Do not know if this is the place to post but... I have a CNC machine that was doing well until I changed the size on my motors. This is a pretty basic 3-axis machine using Mach3 as the interface. A friend of mine(who has a decent sized business manufacturing another brand of CNC) said to check to see if the gear on the new/larger motors is correct for the size motor. The man that manufactured my machine says that I have a setting wrong in the turns per inch for the motor. Where do I go to find that specific information on Mach3? Does it seem like option A or B is more viable? What my problem is that the carriage (for lack of a better word) jogs in the X direction goes one direction fine but then when I use the arrow keys to come back the carriage movement is good for a few moments then it binds, gets stuck, acts sluggish... then I hit the other arrow and sometimes it will most times it will not. It does not matter one iota where the carriage starts it simply moves freely for a few then it binds up. Could this be something too tight in the carriage- even though all the ball bearings are making contact and spinning ... Yes I can take my hand and move the carriage any direction even when the motors seem stuck.... Where do I turn for help in this? When I moved to larger motors the manufacturer of my machine used larger gears on the motors and said they were sized correctly. Sincerely fasote from Durham NC.