New Build: Another Techno Lathe

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tblough
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Re: New Build: Another Techno Lathe

Post by tblough »

I suspect that your problems are caused by the 50" per revolution roughing feedrate. You will also run into problems with the 10" per rev finish feedrate. You didn't attach a report but I suspect movement initally stopped because your drive faulted. When reset the control, you didn't re-home the machine which exacerbated the crash.

On an open-loop machine, whenever you have a drive fault or any condition that causes lost steps, you HAVE to re-home the machine. If you do not have index/hard-stop/accurate switch homing, you will also need to re-calibrate your tools.
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Re: New Build: Another Techno Lathe

Post by dustboy »

suntravel wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:35 pm with 13" Z how do you get the DRO to +98.8845" ?

Uwe
I don't know, very mysterious indeed. Probably related to the absurd feed rate mentioned below.
tblough wrote: Sat Sep 23, 2023 5:23 pm I suspect that your problems are caused by the 50" per revolution roughing feedrate. You will also run into problems with the 10" per rev finish feedrate. You didn't attach a report but I suspect movement initally stopped because your drive faulted. When reset the control, you didn't re-home the machine which exacerbated the crash.
50" per revolution? Oops, my brain was in IPM mode. This is what happens when a router guy starts messing with a lathe. I'll do some homework.
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