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Okay so after almost 2 yrs away from my giant paperweight i am back to try and get it up an running again. I emailed carvewright about a week and a half ago, and never heard back so im guessing they didnt get my email. Gonna try and call them this week if i get out of work early enough. If anyone has some new suggestions I am open to trying something else. Where i left off is as follows...
1. Cleaned and checked every connection again.
2. Replaced the z board and FCC cable.
3. Unplugged the z-motor and plugged it into the y connection. Ran the y-axis test and the z motor works
4. Unplugged the y-motor and plugged it into the z connection. Ran the z-axis test and the y motor works.
5. Checked the bearings on the z truck and nothing is sticking and everything is rolling free
6. Took the belt off to test the z-axis without a load and still get a z-axis error.
7. Checked the encoding disc which is clean and free from scratchs, scuffs or anything that would interfere.
8. Manually moved the z truck up and down starts at 0.000 and goes to 2.950 and back to 0
9. Pulled out the controller and made sure ever was clean inside and checked to make sure nothing was blown.
10. Z motor does not work when plugged into its connection with or without a load on it.
In the meantime if anyone can help me out with 2 small carvings for a project im finishing at my house I would greatly appreciate it. Just send me a message please. The mpc are here and are out of red oak and only 2.5x2.5 and 5/8 thick.empire.mpcrebel.mpc
Did you check to see if the encoder disc was tight? The encoder disc can come loose and spin on the shaft causing an error. Remove the cover and see if disc can be turn by hand, if it can put a drop of super glue where the disc and shaft come together.
Went back and checked the encoder again and it is tight, thanks
Can you do tests 3 and 4 again. The results of these tests do not make sense to me. If the y motor works on the z connection and the z motor works on the y connection, how can anything be wrong?
i did this test when i came back to trying to figure everything out again after almost 2 years and still does the same thing. Doesn't make sense to me either. This is also without the FCC cable hooked up when running the y motor hooked into the Z connection so i tried to run the Z motor without the FCC hooked up to see if anything would happen and got a stall error. It has me wanting to bash my head against a wall as i'm usually really good at figuring stuff like this out
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Since I already replaced the z board and the ffc cable would you think the head termination board would be the next to try and replace?