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by danieldejager
Sun Mar 02, 2025 6:06 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: Regular occurrence of Drive3 fault
Replies: 7
Views: 18578

Re: Regular occurrence of Drive3 fault

I've tried both of the updates since the last post here, to no avail.

I started thinking about it, and I was wondering if there's some weird race condition between the PLC and the drives' STO state that is getting things in a tizzy, so I bypassed the STO system, and things seem to be working ...
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by danieldejager
Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: Regular occurrence of Drive3 fault
Replies: 7
Views: 18578

Re: Regular occurrence of Drive3 fault

I am already on 5.10 and it seems to be the latest version available here: https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_diy/centroid_cnc_software_downloads.html
Is this the right place to be looking?

Parameter 365 was already set to 250, so I bumped it up to 750.
The problem still shows up, though maybe ...
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by danieldejager
Mon Aug 19, 2024 7:42 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: Regular occurrence of Drive3 fault
Replies: 7
Views: 18578

Regular occurrence of Drive3 fault

Hi, i'm hoping that someone can shed some light on an occasional issue I keep seeing with my setup.
Sometimes when starting up, I get a Drive3 fault, and the only way to solve it is to just shut everything down and restart.
I also have an issue where if I use the ESTOP, I get into a similar state ...
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by danieldejager
Mon Aug 19, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: Bridgeport EZTrak DX (90's) retrofit to Hickory+leadshine
Replies: 2
Views: 17186

Bridgeport EZTrak DX (90's) retrofit to Hickory+leadshine

Greetings!
Recently finished this retrofit of a 90's vintage Bridgeport EZTRAK DX milling machine.
My uncle was contemplating an upgrade, but was in no hurry as the existing system was working well enough.
Then it started throwing errors that we couldn't recover from--the hardware finally died.
We ...
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by danieldejager
Mon Aug 19, 2024 7:15 pm
Forum: Centroid Hickory EtherCAT CNC Controller
Topic: Bridgeport EZTrak DX (90's) retrofit to Hickory+leadshine
Replies: 4
Views: 18293

Bridgeport EZTrak DX (90's) retrofit to Hickory+leadshine

Greetings!
Recently finished this retrofit of a 90's vintage Bridgeport EZTRAK DX milling machine.
My uncle was contemplating an upgrade, but was in no hurry as the existing system was working well enough.
Then it started throwing errors that we couldn't recover from--the hardware finally died.
We ...
This post has been liked 0 time(s).