Hello all,
First time in chat, built my low rider 4 (4’ x 2.5’) did the crown, and cut my gantry plates. Last week I leveled my waste board. Today i ghought Id try some engraving, but, yhe machine doesn’t home on Z. It goes down instead of up. But, if I move the Z up by (10 or so) it goes up. I get an alarm stating increasing pull off. As far as I know, I haven’t chanced anything in firmware. What cojld this be. Thank you in advance.
Steve Cilento ( papaseal)
What are you using as a probe / touchplate?
The Gcode is in the milling basics page.
I am using a small pocket ss ruler with a spade connector to wire and an alligator clip for ground wire. It was running great before j leveled ( dressed) the bed.
Homing should be up for the Lowrider, probing should be down.
What spindle are you suing some are extremely electrically noisy.
Is your vac hose grounded?
Okay I just came across a funky esp32. It would not boot right unless I pushed the reboot button after it was powered on.
Try that. Using all the recommended files and UI, power up then hit the reboot button, just to check. Give it 10-15 seconds then try to connect.
Make sure you do not have “auto-connect” selected on any device you own near the esp32.
I don’t have a vacuum hose or even the shoe mounted yet. I rebooted and everything is running okay now. I did have to shim the router clamps along the Y axis ( front to back) just a bit to remove the slight marks on bed. So far so good, great design, easy build after watching the videos. Too bad the wires channels are too small to pass the end connectors thru without having to cut ends off and if the wires where long enough to reach point a to point b. (hate slicing such tiny wires) and using the crimping tool on such small wires is very hard for this 70 year old man.
They aren’t too small. Unless yours have some different end on them than we usually use. Sometimes you have to fiddle with them but they can for sure all pass through the YZ plates without cutting them off.
I grant you that my 3d printer is not the best, and there could be a few loose strands of filament passing thru, but a little force should tear them apart. I was thinking of drilling out some of the passages with a 5/8” drill, but figured that would weaken the parts to much.
Yeah I wouldn’t advise that. If you used the recommended settings it should have all come out pretty well. If you look at the parts in your slicer you can see how the paths run through the parts. @vicious1 did an amazing job (as always) getting them worked in and around everything while being the correct size to get everything through.