Originally Posted by
nzmeethead
i have brought one of these 6040 routers and i just cant get it to work nicely ihave tryed useing another pc and earthing the machene and controler it works but seems to lose steps and is not a nice movement it is jurky and shudders if moveing one one direction however if i jog it +x & +y at the same time it moves nicely in bouth directhions i have tryed useing mach and emc2 but still have the same issue somebody blease help me i just wana make cool things not beet my head aganst my machene lol any help would be much apresheated sorry if this is in the wron place i am new to the forum an
Unfortunately the controllers sold with these machines usually don't work out of the box, and for most people, will never work. They are plain and simple a garbage design with a complete lack of noise immunity and proper grounding. Most people end up replacing them with a Lini or a G540. Probably not what you want to hear, but the simple fact is you could spend the next month or two trying to get it to work and fixing the numerous earthing (or lack thereof) problems, but in the end unless your fairly competent at electronics, reworking circuit boards, and rewiring, you may never get it going to any degree. Search TB6560 here and you'll find several large threads that detail these issues.
cheers,
Ian
It's rumoured that everytime someone buys a TB6560 based board, an engineer cries!