Losing USB Connection (Win10)
I have been using an MKII with a Windows laptop without much problems for some 5 years and I did not change any hardware on the whole system (originally Win7, and Win10 for the last 2 years) but I did the big summary Windows update over the weekend.
It happened now 3 times over the last couple of days that in the middle of the machine run the USB connection somehow stalled. That means the machine stops after maybe 5 or 10 minutes in the middle of the tool path with the spindle spinning and the machine controls on the PC are grayed out. I never had that before.
I can stop the spindle with the hardware e-stop and when I unplug the USB connector and re-insert, the machine control comes back. All positions are maintained and I can re-start the machine program. If I am lucky, this time the program will finish or like yesterday it will stop again at another point. The program is a rather low speed tool path with few points, so the data transmission speed should not be a problem. The Planet-CNC controller is the only external USB device.
Question: is this more likely to be a PC problem or something going on in the controller? I will try another PC tonight and see what happens but maybe somebody else has already experienced this symptom and knows what to do.
JB
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