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lumbark
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Joined: 24/01/2014
Location: Australia
Posts: 5
Posted: 02:35pm 24 Jan 2014
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Wondering if anyone can help, I want to retro fit my mill but before I do I decided to try a smaller project using a cheap chinese drill press. I have some trouble getting the stepper motors running properly. I am using mach 3 and a tb6560 board.2 axis seem to be ok the other just shudders even tho all are set up the same. Ive tried switching them around checked wiring still get the same result. I new and a beginner so be gentle with me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Downwind

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Joined: 09/09/2009
Location: Australia
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Posted: 02:59pm 24 Jan 2014
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Have you adjusted the motor tuning in Mach3, you will need to tune each motor/axis,

Pete.
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Gizmo

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Joined: 05/06/2004
Location: Australia
Posts: 5078
Posted: 05:17pm 24 Jan 2014
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Yep Pete's spot on, go through the motor tuning.

My CNC used a laptop computer to drive it, and recently I changed this to a PC ( laptop died ). Even though I used the same Mach3 configuration, one axis would not run, and I was suspecting a hardware issue. But I went through the motor turning, and that fixed it.

There's a few Mach3 setup tutorials online, highly recommended.

Glen
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lumbark
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Posted: 05:52pm 24 Jan 2014
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Thanks fellas gave the motors a tune and its working fine
 
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