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Hi, I have a ez-router scorpion cnc that has 5.1 Cuken planetary gearbox. I’m wondering if there are any alternatives that may work for me? To order one from ez-router is $1000. Ordering direct from...

Looks like it's parallel correct?

More photos...

Sorry for late reply, was on an anniversary trip with the wife!

Here is what I have tested so far.

Adjusting the motor tuning seems to have no effect on my problem with stuttering steppers.
As...

Sounds good! I’ll give it a go tomorrow and report back.
Thank you
David

Yes, when moving with z-axis in the air from one cut to another it would move up to 500in/min if it had enough room to get up to speed depending on the cut,

Sorry I am confusing.
1) Yes, for the most part it was fine until the original BOB failed.
2)BOB failed and they sent me their new BOB version, a ESS and new computer with mach3 loaded.
3)Via the...

On the old setup yes it would do rapid moves fine and not stall.
As it stands now with the "upgrades" It might make it home without stalling but often times one of the axis will stall.

Thanks for the info, I will test this out tomorrow and report back.
Yes it would rapid back to home fine when It was on the older computer and ez routers old bob board which used a parallel port. ...

EZ-router sent a smooth stepper. So ethernet!
Im wondering if it would be happier with mach4? I know smooth stepper doesn't remained mach3 anymore?
Mach3 was what ez sent on the new computer

I will be back in the shop tomorrow and will check, and also try some more speed changes.

I will say I did try moving both Y axis from 500in/min to around 250 and changing velocity and it didn't...

Here is the stepper drive Japanese translated,

Thanks for the reply!
Here is some more info, and a video to see/hear the problem im having.

VIDEO - https://youtube.com/shorts/ceLjwyJ6xLQ
The orange cable in the video is the 3 wire unshielded...

Hi, I have been dealing with some motor issues on my ez-router scorpion Cnc. Partially stalling when jogging all motors. I can get my z-axis to always stall when jogging Y- full speed (500in/min) and...

It’s a 18k rpm hsd spindle. I’m cutting wood.

Are you referring to a shield emc clamp? like one form ICOTEK?

If i use a emc gland to the spindle making sure that it is conductive to the spindle body would I need to run a separate ground from spindle to z axis mounting?
I got this gland...

Thanks Al, I have been reading the 2 Siemens pdfs you and MAC provided. Very helpful and crazy how many manufactures dont follow them...

One questions for equipotential bonding. because my gantry...

Hi,
I have been working on a 4x8 ez-router scorpion for some time now fixing some of the stupid stuff that was done by this company when built.

From factory they put all their vfds in the...

nice deal