HELP! Y-axis issue

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I have a craft show tonight and my red-and-black laser went wonky. Argh!

The X-axis tracks fine, but the Y-axis says that it is traveling 500mm when it only goes about 180mm (as I watch the reading on the Ruida displayu and measure manually.).

  1. I have tried the calibration.
  2. I have reset and rebooted the laser numerous times, not just cycling it off and on, but also disconnecting the plug.
  3. I installed the latest LightBurn update.
  4. When I turn OFF the machine, I can manually move the gantry and carriage freely in all directions. There are no obstructions. The belts are tight.

Extremely frustrated and bewildered.

Any ideas?

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Check the motor drivers to ensure this isn’t a hardware error of some type… the power/error leds are circled on the left one.

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How hot did your motors run?

My motor drivers were ‘factory set’ to twice the rated current of the motors…

Although highly doubtful the controller could fail… there is a hardware ‘error’ led on the Ruida itself… Might have a look at that… doubt it but you’ll be there anyway.

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There isn’t much to cause this, if you didn’t change anything … that I can think of … sounds like some kind of hardware issue and I’d guess a motor at this stage, but only a guess.

:smile_cat:

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Thanks.

=-Sigh.-=