I’ve gotten my MPCNC up and running with the preflashed rambo control board running. I made one quick test using fusion 360 and a post processor i found on here and it worked great. I tried to start a new one and I am having an issue where it starts and runs as normal but right before it makes its first plunge cut, it just stops and makes a tick sound every so often and it never advances. The gcode terminal and x,y,z corrdinates never change. The red LED light comes on and then i force the print to kill and reset it and it works fine until I restart it and it hits this part again. Would this be a communication issue or a gcode issue? I put the same exact Gcode as the design I ran last week and had the same issue with the first plunge cut.
Running Baud rate of 250000/256000 (both work okay using a mac, though they have been a little more laggy per usual)
Rambo board
repetier 1.1 and 1.2 (I tried both seeing if it was a software issue)
Im hoping this is just a gcode issue and not a firmware, but the red light that pops on when it starts faulting out scares me.
That was going to be my next step. The only reason I havent done that is because I ran my old gcode that worked last week and the same thing happened. Basically what I can do is set my home and everything and when I start it, it runs right where it needs to make the first plunge cut, but it just stops. I can hear the steppers droning at a higher pitch like they want to move and it’ll just run one line of gcode every minute or so and then I realized the red LED light popped on.
A quick scan and your gcode looks OK - the only odd item I could see is the F333.3, which is in the range of typical values, but I just haven’t seen a decimal point used for that. Try replacing the F333.3 with F333. Also, some pictures of your setup might help too. One other thought, do you have a 6A power supply connected to the Rambo?
I do have the 6A power supply, I can snag pictures quickly. Upon looking at the previous Gcode that worked last week, that had an F code that was a whole integer, so it didnt have the decimal. So unfortunately, I dont believe it is that. I am wondering if I accidentally deleted something from my laptop when I went on a cleaning spree, which would be weird considering I kept Fusion 360 and Repetier whole. The only thing I deleted was arduino but I never had to use that before.
Well… I have no idea what I did but I just plugged it back in and everything was super responsive and its working… I wonder if it was the order I plugged things into my laptop? Will keep an eye on the issue however! I appreciate the advice.