X Drive Stalls

[RobertP]

Hey guys, I wanted to throw this out there and see if anyone has some ideas or have had a similar situation. A few weeks ago I started getting X drive errors during a carve. I went through all the normal checks, head pressure, drive gears etc..... soon after that it got to where all three axis would not work. Spent some time on the phone with CW and came to the conclusion of the controller board had failed. Ordered a new one and installed it. did a test and all seemed to be good.
Finally fired up the machine today and within ten minutes got another X drive stall. I cleared everything out to make sure the board was straight, the rollers had no obstructions. Put the board back in and when it came time to load my bit in the start up phase, I got the x drive error again. I thought this was very odd to get a drive error at this point. Any ideas or thoughts?

[bergerud]

Sandpaper or rubber belts? With the machine off, can you move the belts by hand? (Push with palm of hand on front belt.)

[fwharris]

Do you get the error when running the user test on the X driver? Ran on user options #8.

Make sure you have reformatted and reinstalled the firmware..

[RobertP]

Sandpaper or rubber belts? With the machine off, can you move the belts by hand? (Push with palm of hand on front belt.)

I have rubber belts, and yes I can move the rollers by pushing on them.

[RobertP]

Do you get the error when running the user test on the X driver? Ran on user options #8.

Make sure you have reformatted and reinstalled the firmware..

I did both of those things.

[fwharris]

I did both of those things.

Did you get the stall error during the X drive test? Did you hear/notice any strange sounds
or movements during the test?

[bergerud]

Maybe the original problem was not the controller but the power supply.

Other things: Head level? Rollers above roll smoothly? Squaring plate square? Wood chip in the belt system?

[mtylerfl]

Hi Robert,

Did the CW Tech have you inspect the X-gears under the cover? I wonder if you have a damaged gear. Won't hurt to check just to make sure no teeth are missing, etc.

[lynnfrwd]

How are you getting power to the machine? On it's own circuit? Extension cord? Power strip?

[aokweld101]

I have to agree with Micheal, if the machine had a hard time moving your last project and got caught up somehow it would of tore a tooth up the in plastic gear.