Please help!!
It just won’t cut, or home, and the y axis reverses half way across the bed.
A video or something we can see would help…
Does both axes home when requested or a reset?
Are you using usb or Ethernet? Ethernet seems much less likely to have any strange machine issues.
Hi, I will take video tomorrow.
It doesn’t home, it attempts to, but it doesn’t go to 0x0 but to the front mid left.
It’s on usb, checked machine settings.
At what should be 0/0 it is showing very high numbers.
So confused!
If it fails to home, that axes will usually be 10,000.
I always suggest using Ethernet, but it sounds like it’s an issue with the machine. A communication issue won’t interfere with a home operation.
I have been thinking about going Ethernet. How do you set it up if the laser, or CNC, does not have an RJ45 port? I have 4 machines I would like to make happy.
Your hardware has to support an Ethernet connection. Some have wifi, but the Ruida has the Ethernet.
I know there are a number of wifi machines out there, don’t know about Ethernet plug directly.
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Here is something visual!
It makes a terrible juddering sound also.
It’s loosing steps, that’s likely the noise. Does it move easily by hand along the X axes. If it’s being bound up mechanically, you can’t fix it electrically.
It goes from the step controls of the Ruida → Motor stepper driver → motors.
Check the motor stepper drivers for an error indicator on the panel. Mine are mounted upside down… I rotated the photo.
I have a 6442g and it has an error indicator, led 13, I think. Doubt it’s the Ruida.
These are usually the same motors/driver, so in theory you could swap them before or after the motor drivers… In other words you’d connect the Y driver motor output to the X motor and vice-versa. This would be where A and B are marked.
When you boot the machine keep pressing esc on the machines console to interrupt the boot process. Now you have control. Check and see if the noise follows the swap.
Make sense?
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I could really use an idea!!
I have greased, cleaned, set up everything I can find.
Head moves in Xand Y smoothly when power is off, but still!! Nothing!!
Anybody?
This is so frustrating!
This video is the main board with warning lights.
Just when I REALLY need the blumming thing
They are not error lights. The legend is covered by the main board sticker.
led15 shows it’s producing 5V, the run light (led14) just flashes and led9 indicates there is coolant flow.
So what’s the problem?
It’s all on the video on my first post.
Spent lots of time today thinking murderous thoughts!
Some more video, here is where it refuses to play nicely on the Y axis.
Have you used the rotary lately?
You might still have it enabled, and your machine thinks it’s controlling the rotary when it’s hooked up to the Y-Axis instead.
If that’s not the issue, I recommend following Jack’s suggestion here. See, if the problem moves to the X axis when you swap the motor connectors.
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