I have been doing a drilling job on my series 2 its actually the first time I have done more than one job at a time. I had twenty pieces of 1/2 square with three through holes on two sides and twenty with two though holes on each side. I used the Newfangled wizard to write the code and just edited the different dimensions for the X, as the holes were in the centre the Y was .25. My first problem arose because I trusted that the Y was indeed at .25, the readout said it was!After wrecking the first few I measured the offset and moved the table .031 to get the holes on centre, I didn't move the Y axis for the rest of the job.
The next issue was at the end of the job when the X axis was rapid traversing to X0 Z1 there would be a noise and the DRO would keep going but the table was stopped, the DRo returned to zero but the table wasn't there, rezeroing the X fixed this until next time this happened about every twelve pieces and then this morning it happened mid program and drilled a hole in the wrong spot.
This morning when I started the machine up the Z axis started a dive towards the table on its own! i had to hit the stop button.
As far as diagnosing the fault this is what I have done, checked all the wires on the drivers etc to make sure there are no loose connections, soldered the stepper connections as they were twisted and crimped. My first thought on the X Axis was the coupling slipping, i checked it straight away and put marks on both sides it is not slipping.I had a message yesterday that said Driver Watchdog Triggered? I only have the PCNC program on the controller
Any ideas anyone?
Will