[Lab] laser status

[Darcy Whyte]

Great, so it's working.. wohoo...

It's 330 and I'm just about finished errands. I've got a party at 5 at hub
so I'm not sure if there's enough time to pop into the laser.. boo hoo.
Unless somebody wants to hang out at the lab for an hour or something...





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Darcy Whyte

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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Britta Evans-Fenton <technical at artengine.ca
> wrote:

> 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>
>> 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>
>>> 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
>>>> rubber-power.com
>>>> 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
>>>>>
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>>>>> text)
>>>>>
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