Successfully installed new lead screws,
new bed and new spindle mount on my CNC. Did a rough calibration of
the x and y axis, manually leveled the bed and then fine tuned the
calibration for all 3 axis.
My top speeds for x and y axis are
fairly high but z axis is still the limiting axis. Any faster than
about 14in/min and the z-axis stepper squeals and stutters –
resulting in a lot of missed steps. After a bit of research I found
a few issues that may be causing this:
- stepper motor resonance
- lead screw (likely to be less of a problem when I change to acme screw on z-axis)
- GRBL
Some good links on this issue:
It looks like I won't be able to get
faster moves until I finish my rebuild of the frame and spindle
mount/carriage (including swapping the z-axis lead screw with an Acme
screw). I have tried tweaking the acceleration and max speeds but
when I push it a bit for better performance the Z-axis seems to loose
steps when retracting resulting in a number of pocket cuts being to
deep.
Finally done with both sides of the
Z-axis on the 3D Printer and will be cutting out the X-axis shuttle
Cutting X-axis shuttle tonight, tried this afternoon and GRBL stalled (first time ever). Already re-cut acrylic for mount for extruder out of acrylic. Lining up printer bed on Y-axis and designing cuts for securing drive belts on X and Y axii.
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