I am hoping someone else has had this issue and can tell me what needs to be removed, stopped, or tweaked when running KmotionCNC.
The problem: while running a CNC program, motion stops and the spindle remains running. KmotionCNC program is unresponsive. At this point I must restart the computer, restart the KmotionCNC program, and cycle power to the KFlop board. The machine must then be initialized, homed, and the program restarted. The problem is random as the same program can run just fine after. My thought is that the KmotionCNC program is actually becoming unresponsive first but I don't notice until the KFlop buffer empties and motion stops.
My Setup: Windows 7 pro 32 bit. The computer is running 2.33ghz, memory is maxed out for a 32 bit processor, and has plenty of HDD space. KmotionCNC version 434e with a bit of simple customization to the screen using the new screen creater software. Kflop and Konnect boards running 5 AutomationDirect stepper motor controllers. X, X Slaved, Y, Z, and A.
The problem became more frequent when I networked the machine computer to my desktop computer to simplify moving files from development to the machine. I have since removed this network and the problem has become less frequent. My machine was controlled by Mach3 in the past so I was painfully aware that you do not use the machine computer for anything but the machine but my experience with Kflop/KmotionCNC has been much different up until now.
I am not a computer pro by any means but I do believe a background program or service is crashing the program and I am hoping that a list of recommended computer tweaks exists to optimize KmotionCNC's ability to run uninterrupted.