From the time I bought my drives one of them was noisy and resisted all attempts at tuning both in Mack 3 and the pot on the drive.
I was finally able to get it to settle down some and continued with my project, but after changing to a ball screw on the Z axis (lathe) the real problem became apparent. It still is very noisy but now I can see clearly that there is a step count loss.
If I set up a job to turn down the radius in a number of passes, each pass stops short of the requested length by about .100" and zero progressively moves to the right also.
Tuning the pot does no good. x and z setup is identical in Mach (same ball screw), there is no back lash nor is backlash enabled in Mach. Setting backlash does no good either.
Changing the cables from z to x causes the problem to follow to the other motor.
If someone has an answer, please share it with me while I have whats left of my sanity.
John