<div><div><div>Okay, I've played around a bit:</div><div><br></div><div>Switching the X and Y wires on the controller: The problem stays with the physical X axis. I believe this eliminates the controller as the problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Moving trading stepper motors between Z and X: The problem stayed with the physical X axis. This eliminates the stepper motors as the problem.</div><div><br></div><div>So if I'm right, it's the wiring between the controller and the X axis. Does that make sense?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com">darcy@siteware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Nuts:<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><div><h2 style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;font-size:1.7em">
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acceleration</p></div><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">Something went wrong with my mill. It seems to be constrained to the X-Axis.</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">The axis is weak. It also runs in the same direction sometimes no matter what direction I jog it. It often doesn’t start. I changed the acceleration from 400 down to 200 and that didn’t help.</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">I jiggled all the wires around as well.</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">So I’m a little concerned that there is an issue with the X-controller.</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">I will send a note to my supplier to get another controller.</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">Here is a video of the axis being weak. And another of the light action on the controllers.</p>
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