Hey I am having an issue and I don’t know what is wrong. I just finished my Joes 2006 cnc and just getting things moving.
Basically when I use the pendant (Usb Shuttle Pro) to move the cnc around it moves great (250ipm on the X). When I load the roadrunner in mach3 and do a no contact run the machine sounds sickly mainly the X axis. What I mean by sickly is that I am not getting that normal high pitch, it is more of a low pitch. It seems like it doesn’t have enough power. I am only running the program at 60ipm. At 120ipm the X gets a bit jittery. It just doesn’t sound right.
I thought I might have had a bad power supply since it would move fine one axis at a time fine but would sound like it was bogged down/low on power when all 3 axis are running. I swapped out the power supply with (2) 24v 6.5A switching power supplies. X got it’s own power supply. Didn’t make a difference.
I am running out of ideas. Any help would be great.
Machine Info / Settings
Joes 2006 R-1
(I have everything from Kelings 425oz Hybrid Kit)
Motors: KL23H286-20-8B /nema 23 / 425oz / 8 – wire / 1.8 deg
Drivers: KL-4030 / 3.0A / 24-40v / 1 – 1/64
Controller: C10
Power: 36v / 9.6A / Switching
Screws: X&Y- Acme 5 start, 2 tpi Z – Acme 2 start, 5 tpi
Software: Mach3
Shuttle: Usb Shuttle Pro
Router: Hitachi 2.25 Hp / 1800 watts
Other: Cnc4pc -C47 / AC speed controller
Settings / Other Info
Motors are wired Bi-Polar Parallel, Drivers are set for 2.8A / 1/8 microstep
Mach3 settings: X&Y set to 3200 steps / Z – 8000 steps, Accel about 1 second, Pulse is 5
25,000Hz