Hey guys,
I've recently bought another 50w laser from Ebay, I have 2 others 50w and 110w.
The new 50w is about 3 weeks old and I'm currently running into an issue with it jumping. (I cant be bothered dealing with supplier as they are chinese and useless for help)
When I'm engraving as the head is moving down it makes a horrible juddering sound and skips but carries on engraving but obviously it's skipped and the pattern is then toast and have to start again. It's very very annoying.
I've checked;
*its not hitting anything
*theres nothing down the sides where the belts run like i said its brand new
*Belt tension on both sides tight but not overly tight (Same as my older once which is about a year old)
*I've pushed the head back and forth to feel any resistance but can't feel much there.
*slowed my engraving down even though the speed from side to side really doesn't effect the downward movement (still did it)
*Reduced the load of colour in Rdworks so rather than setting all my colours for engraving on, I turn only one on once completed cycle I turn the next colour on and so forth to eliminate the chance of the software overloading and causing issues.
I've used the key pad on the machine and pressed the head up and down up and down but can't get it to skip when manually trying.
any help would be great!