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| Posted: 05:55am 09 Jan 2015 |
you computer locked on sending Gcode ?
how old is it ?
also the controller board you pictured, if cheap means came from china cheap , you may find it has noise issues . ~ locking up , not sending proper continue codes back to PC , losing steps .
Noise as in not enough circuit noise isolation on one or more axis . what you will see is the loss of steps to even controller locking up.
adding filter caps to any DC motors near b and using ferrite chokes at the ends of long leads can help , but some of these boards actually have a 'bug' in their layout design.
the issue is not enough isolation from processing signal to the driver parts.
and this can cause the whole board to pause if bad enough .
see here :
fixing-a-chinese-made-cnc-stepper-motor-driver-board
but if it is just a old PC locking / bogging , never mind that then . LOL
i would figure linux CNC would even run on my old XP rig if i swapped the hard drive out .
oh and PS for making mounts and anchor points in MDF and such that my need to come apart later i use threaded nuts .
I even use them for lead screw nuts on my smaller table top rigs.
they look like this:
Furnature threaded nuts
or just search Google for "furniture nuts"
Old coder, and bodger of things that may spark.