[Lab] laser status

[Britta Evans-Fenton]

I did lots of tests today and it seems to be fine. I'll continue doing test
this week to see if it's spiratic. In the mean time. Use as usual and
report weirdness (also as you should usually).

Britta

On Thursday, August 21, 2014, Richard Sloan <rsloan at themindfactory.com>
wrote:

> I too saw the problem last night it seems very confused, does not behave
> at all seems to me to be some form of hardware failure at this point.
> On 2014-08-21 10:14 AM, "Britta Evans-Fenton" <technical at artengine.ca
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','technical at artengine.ca');>> wrote:
>
>> I used the cutter last week with no problem, but someone had reported an
>> issue a few days earlier. I'm going into the lab to play with it in a
>> moment.
>>
>> On Thursday, August 21, 2014, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','darcy at inventorartist.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, so the problem is not new. Anybody else notice anything?
>>>
>>> I suppose the next thing to do is get the manufacturer support on the
>>> line and see if they have anything in their help database on it.
>>>
>>> Last night when a bunch of people were all around it the firmware was
>>> reflashed but that didn't seem to affect the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Darcy Whyte
>>>
>>> Art+ inventorArtist.com <http://inventorartist.com/> | Aviation
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>>> Contact: darcy at inventorArtist.com | 613-563-3634 by appointment (no
>>> text)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Andrew Szeto <andrew.szeto at outlook.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey Darcy,
>>>>
>>>> I noticed what you were describing last week when I used it. First time
>>>> it's happened to me. It would re-position itself after I had it placed (xy
>>>> off) and hit the "Go" button for the first time (*second time is when it
>>>> actually started its cuts). My work around was to then re-adjust my project
>>>> to where the machine had re-positioned itself to. I generally start my cuts
>>>> from left-center, so it wasn't too much of an ordeal. It's not ideal, but
>>>> it worked out alright. Sorry I didn't report this earlier. I didn't perform
>>>> any actions that were out of the ordinary (to my knowledge anyhow), so I
>>>> don't think I prompted it to act that way. Hopefully we can get this
>>>> resolved. Here to help in any way possible.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> From: darcy at inventorArtist.com
>>>> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:56:00 -0400
>>>> To: lab at artengine.ca
>>>> Subject: [Lab] laser status
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I noticed last night when I was called to help with the laser that it's
>>>> acting out. Just after setting home it is going through some routine moving
>>>> the head around and then arriving back near home.
>>>>
>>>> Did this problem just occur last night? It is helpful if people come
>>>> forward when problems are noticed so anybody investigating can know the
>>>> entire history of the problem. For instance if there was any attempts at
>>>> resolving a problems, what was it and what was the outcome. What was going
>>>> on when the problem occurred and so forth.
>>>>
>>>> What is the status of the machine now? Is it working?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Darcy Whyte
>>>>
>>>> Art+ inventorArtist.com <http://inventorartist.com/> | Aviation
>>>> rubber-power.com
>>>> Contact: darcy at inventorArtist.com | 613-563-3634 by appointment (no
>>>> text)
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>> --
>> Britta
>> *Technical Coordinator *
>> Artengine.ca
>>
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