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Discussion in 'CNC Mills/Routers' started by Steve Hall, Nov 8, 2021.

  1. Steve Hall

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    Yes, all are operational and come up with the alarm window on each activation, i then have to turn off the alarm. But as soon as a try to home it, it goes past the limit switches?
     
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    Any chance you have the switches mixed up? Homing goes Z, X and then Y. If, for example, you have the X switch plugged into the Y port and the Y switch plugged into the X port, then homing will never find the X switch.
     
  3. Steve Hall

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    Embarrassingly so sir, Embarrassingly so. I have had them on and out that many times I have mixed them up. So when it performs the homing test, it is only test one switch at a time as well?
     
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    Dont know what you mean by homing test. Glad you figured it out though.
     
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    Probably also wiring, or if you wired it to the Coolant control, remember to turn it on from the Tool On menu
     
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  6. Steve Hall

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    Just liked to say 'thank you' to everyone & that the machine performed the home sequence last night, that's all i had chance to do.

    So a good clean up and hopefully will get to the ubiquitous 'hello world'
     
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    I am going to use Easel Pro as i find it quite intuitive to use -

    My Main cutters to start will be 3.25mm round nose, upcut and downcut quarter inch and quarter inch 60 degree V Bit 4 flute

    Cutting MR MDF any recommendations on speed and feed rate please?

    As a newbie I have no idea if the pre-set speeds are good or not?

    Also, just been trying to google the speed settings for the Dewalt 262

    What are the rotational speeds at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?

    Thanks

    WoodKnot
     
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    Still cannot find the coolant control Peter, where should I be looking?
     
  10. Steve Hall

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    Hi, build complete, how do I change the status, will add a few images later! Very pleased
     
  11. Steve Hall

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    So, did the hello world and thought, OK, time to try one of easel designs I have made.Then my problems started again. Easel does not seem to connect to my machine for some reason. I have installed both pieces of software on a Windows 10 Pro machine.

    I tried exporting the project into openbuilds and got an error code, which I should have taken an image of, but it was getting late and needed to walk the dog!

    Anyway, as usual, any tips or pointers would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks

    WoodKnot
     
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    In OpenBuilds Control, click on tool on, the click coolant on. Not sure if you can do this from easel.

    Need to see the error message in order to help.
     
  13. Peter Van Der Walt

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    M9/M8 in gcode. Or the Tool On menu in CONTROL
     

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