[ackbar345]

I've been tuning my machine up (long overdue) and a lot of the discussion about finding a good velocity & acceleration for any given machine seems to be slowly incrementing one and then the other until you start losing steps or the motor stalls. How do I detect missing steps if I don't have encoders? Do I just listen? What kind of sound does it make?

[bhurts]

Setup a dial indicater against the axis your testing. Move away from the indicater and then back to zero for your test move. If the motor stops during the move it has stalled. If it fails to move the indicater back to the same point you started at you have missed steps.

Ben

[ackbar345]

Thanks Ben! I'll give it a go, presumably digital calipers will work as well? That's what I use when I do axis calibration. Sounds like a similar operation.