I’m not quite imagining what’s going on (how the hose could reach around to touch the endstop) but my semi flaccid hose droops down to the floor and didn’t interfere with the belts thanks to Ryan’s “hose bump.” The woodcraft hose I got is 25’ long and fairly floppy, but not as rigid as my shop vac hose. Inadvertently photographed in the “e-stop” pic, dangling like an elephant trunk Upgrading LR3 to LR4 in Seattle - #127 by coinbird
I think the setup I have now will work. The “drop” connection to the flex hose is about 3" above the side edge of the middle of the table. The flex hose is draped from there to the gantry, in what is and will always be pretty close to being a weighted catenary curve, no matter where the gantry is positioned. I adjusted the twist so it’s about evenly distributed “either way” when the two extremes along the axis are compared.
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Thanks everyone, for all the help!
That only works if you’re right there when it starts to skip. If your 3 seconds away and it skips steps but keeps working, you now have a bunch of trash on your table.
If you are 3 seconds away you should still be able to hear it. I know the sound of skipped steps so well I auto know to check when I hear it. Thankfully I haven’t heard it in a good wile lol
Yes, but the overall message is ‘just do everything perfectly every time and there’s no need for safety steps’ isn’t always the right one : laugh:
If the machine stops immediately you can find the fault, reset and restart and you’ve just lost time. If instead you get a full depth cut in an unintended path you lost time, material, and maybe broke something.
That isn’t at all what I was trying to say. I was trying to explain why Ryan doesn’t use the limits. Because they can get triggered when they shouldn’t be and ruin a job. That has nothing to do with it skipping steps from you how ever many feet away from it.
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