I was wrong about the xbox causing the problem. Took it off and immediately everything was fine but it was a coincidence. Got weird again. Turned out to be an ever so slightly corroded spring terminal on the X axis servomotor encoder. Just one pin. Replaced it and sprayed with polyphenyl either contact lube.
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On 3/3/2022 12:01 PM, Spencer Chase wrote:
I got my gcode for a part I make thousands of "perfect" after only 8 years. making these parts in incredibly boring (thank god for noise cancelling headphones with podcasts and music and i want the machine to be 100% reliable so i can enjoy the music )redid all the arcs using cambam and have no offsets at all to confuse Mach4 when I estop (power off to everything but computer)
I increased the rigidity of the locking of the fourth axis (took me a full day to do that) and chatter is minimal even in strange hard grain.
all was just great, i need to leave the country to take care of my father and i was more ready than ever to make a bunch of parts.
then all hell broke loose, small random moves or not moves then totally random huge moves back and forth. i checked all wiring, no problems. then i unplugged the xbox controller and it is all "perfect" again.
i have no idea what happened to the controller or the plugin but something did. did anyone else have this happen? could be the computer's USB controller but the mouse and keyboard are plugged in to USB and they are working OK?
i think i will get a really nice pendant. any suggestions as to something that is easy to use and reliable?
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