I have an Acmer P3 and laser is acting erratically and slamming into frame. Also slamming when sent to home position. Please help.
What do you mean it is acting erratically?
Are you sure you have your working size set correctly in your device settings?
When you are jogging the machine does it move in the correct directions?
Are you able to home the machine correctly on startup?
Can you show us an example of what you were doing when the machine is not behaving?
When I hit “home” it slams into the front of the unit over and over.
Not sure how to upload a video
Are you sure your machine has limit switches? Was the machine able to home before and this is now a new problem? Or is this a new machine and you are just setting it up?
It could be that your limit switch is not working correctly.
Normally your laser will touch off X first then continue traveling forwards and then touch off Y.
Is the laser touching off X correctly on the gantry first?
Then the laser continues towards the front of the machine and slams into the rails?
Turn on the machine, Then push the laser head to the back of the rails. Then power on your machine.
As the machine is moving manually trigger the end stop switches with your finger.
Does the machine stop?
I’ve been using this machine for a couple of months. Everything had been fine until today. I don’t really understand a lot of your terminology. I just know that when I hit home it keeps slamming against the frame for several seconds until it stops in its own. Home is front left. How can I send a video to show what the issue is?
It sounds like it is not activating the Yaxis Home switch.
With the laser module in the middle, hold the switch closed with your finger and enter ? in the Console window. A line that has “MPos” in it will appear. Copy and paste that text line in a Reply.