Hi all,
Okay, so after working through a few initial problems with my new Taig mill I was smooth sailing. Brimming with confidence, I strapped on a piece of stock, set it up and ran a new project.
After the first couple hundred lines of code, I left the mill to do its thing...too cold in the shop to babysit it. Came back a half hour later and found the Y motor stalled out.
This is a brand new Taig DSDL 3000 with 200 oz-in stepper motors running on WInXP Pro, controlled with Mach3.
Instead of taking every shot in the dark with the dozens of variables and wasting all the stock and tools, I thought maybe you fine folks could post some of the most common reasons why motors stall on these benchtop systems. In the first instance, it was only the Y motor that stalled.
In the second attempt, the Y failed again. I changed the program to a simpler part to cut, a part I had cut earlier that day with relative success. Came back and now both the X and Y were stalled. It wasn't an issue with a limit or home switch either because DRO's were still happilly moving through the Gcode.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks!
Michael