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Nema17's are great for 3D printers and laser etchers. Nema23's are what you want for a CNC router, especially Z has to move much more weight. You...
I tried a BluePill with the same result, believe that CONTROL is looking for the USB ID of the BlackBox, though it will find a generic Uno/GRBL...
shorter USB cable is ALWAYS better (-: 2 feet is a nice length
yes TTL is 0 to 5V 5.8v is ABOVE the TTL standards and will probably hurt soemthing
many many people have had similar problems it is one of 2 things 1 - the mac is power saving the usb port, windows does it too, and the power...
when I was looking into moving my OX from dual Y drivers to single driver runnign both motors I found a number of web pages advising connecting...
if this is a belt drive machine then you have the motors wired incorrectly, one must be reversed. if it is leadscrew driven, then the wiring is ok...
autolevelling is an advanced thing, so time for some advanced software, bCNC
also, calibrate over longer distances, 100mm is too short for the best accuracy. ie you cannot see 0.01% error over 100mm, but you can over 1000mm
in the gcode I see that some holes (top left) are being cut with arc commands and some (top center) are being cut with many small line segments,...
that is probably because they were running very high current through the motor and then turning the driver off to let it cool, the lock keeps it...
yes, please attach the gcode file meanwhile, you may want to enable smoothing, this reduces the number of short line segments making it easier...
with reference to your image of a broken limit switch.... change the way the switches are mounted so that it is triggered as the carriage goes...
please tell us your process, which CAD software, which CAM software, and attach a screenshot of the drawing and the Gcode you are using.
In the post options you selected the 'clearace height' retract option. This cannot work for A axis code, so you must select the other option, G53....
getting errors for g21 and G4 are fundamental problems that should NOT be happening at all. I suspect you have the wrong kind of line endings in...
what do mean when you say 'openbuilds' ? could it be OpenbuildsCAM or could it be the Fusion360 postprocessor or even OpenbuildSCONTROL?....
Here are links to some posts detailing how to use the pierce height settings in the OpenBuilds Fusion360 postprocessor for plasma cutting....
David the swarfer submitted a new resource: Fusion360 Plasma Pierce Height - Plasma pierce height in the F360 postprocessor Here are links to...
I would keep the existing drivers, power supply and motors and just add a grblHAL based controller here are some https://www.grbl.org/breakboards...
