[Glen66]

please I need help I had bought my Lathe from ImService and now they are shut down.
I have the DeskCNC software with SYS-3A CNC SYSTEM 2nd generation Controller.
Fred help me setup evrything with the lathe, and it worked great i used it for years
making my pen/pencils. Istop using it fora few years now, and when I went to run
the software to run my g-code it won't do nothing, can't jog or run any of my g-codes
is there anyone I Houston or Bear Creek area that could come over and help me figure
this out.
Thanks

[fogassa]

please I need help I had bought my Lathe from ImService and now they are shut down.
I have the DeskCNC software with SYS-3A CNC SYSTEM 2nd generation Controller.
Fred help me setup evrything with the lathe, and it worked great i used it for years
making my pen/pencils. Istop using it fora few years now, and when I went to run
the software to run my g-code it won't do nothing, can't jog or run any of my g-codes
is there anyone I Houston or Bear Creek area that could come over and help me figure
this out.
Thanks

make shure you have the right com port selected usually thats the problem.

[Glen66]

yeah i did that but i run the software then go to mode then machine to bring up all the axis which is just 2 and then go to file and load my g-code its all ready to go so when i hit run/start/go ect. ect. nothing happens and it usually starts cutting but if i hit jog on one of the axis everything turns gray and you can't click on none of the axis or the start buttons in the program and i use to be able to do that before i stop using it but now it won't let me and I haven't change nothing in the software. i did delete it and reinstalled it went through and did the setup like me and Fred did so i know that's all correct dang thing got me confused as hell.

[fogassa]

yeah i did that but i run the software then go to mode then machine to bring up all the axis which is just 2 and then go to file and load my g-code its all ready to go so when i hit run/start/go ect. ect. nothing happens and it usually starts cutting but if i hit jog on one of the axis everything turns gray and you can't click on none of the axis or the start buttons in the program and i use to be able to do that before i stop using it but now it won't let me and I haven't change nothing in the software. i did delete it and reinstalled it went through and did the setup like me and Fred did so i know that's all correct dang thing got me confused as hell.

I had one of the old gen2 board fail on me before and it locked up . there is a small capacitor network bank on the board rc1 or rc2 that some how got shorted . Carl from deskcnc sent me a new board, just payed for shipping. just contact deskcnc

[Glen66]

well can't do that Fred died a few years ago so IMservice shut down so I don't know who is updating the software and i don't know where they where getting the SYS-3A Controller and servo motors from
well thanks for the help anyways i guess i will have to find a company that has servos and see what system they have and go with that

[fogassa]

check with a multimeter all the input pins if it is shorted to ground, thats why there is a rc network in there to filter noise on input pins. that is how I found out it was the rc network falt. it would upload new firmware but locked up after that. you can order a new rc network from digikey or somewhere else. deskcnc has changed the rc network on newer boards by smaller ones. so far no problems.

[Glen Hendricks]

its me i just logged in on my original account finally got it back but any how so check those now i have three small boards one for x and one for z and there is one for the serial to usb port ok i have x and z has blue lights on steady but the serial is flickering fast could that be the problem
i can take a video and show you if i need to

[fogassa]

the blue led on deskcnc board should blink fast when moving any axis. I only have the deskcnc board and rutex servos board not the fred´s system so I can not coment on how Fred´s servos works.

[Glen Hendricks]

https://youtu.be/3apPu6B-cX0

ok this is just the controller turned on if you look close you will see the x and z not blinking
and the serial is the one blinking really fast

[Glen Hendricks]

is there anyone Know's how to reset the board i think the serial port board needs to be reset i am not sure

[Glen Hendricks]

ok I don't need help on this no more found the problem and is fixed
thanks for the help

[awerby]

What was the problem, and how did you fix it? Resolutions in threads like this can be helpful when someone else has the same issue.

[Glen Hendricks]

well it was a really stupid thing, ok i use deskcnc software that came with my lathe setup, in the software there is a setup
for the lathe and mill and i have to reenter the numbers for the x and z axes and the choose the com port, Well Fred (RIP)
help me setup everything and it worked great, but after it set awhile not using it i upgraded the software and reentered the
setup, and thats where i had the problem. could not figure it out, until the other night when it snapped what Fred told me what i had to do
when you bring up the machine in the software and then open one of your g-codes you hit go and it suppose to run or you hit x or z to jog
suppose to move wouldn't do it. what i have o do is there is two buttons in the software thats pause and em stop i had to click on both
buttons to open the em stop and take it of pause then everything worked great so i am back up and running so be sure you guys
write down everything so i wrote that down in my notes so want have that problem again