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Post by gollyrojer on May 11, 2019 17:06:53 GMT -5
My AR8 Pro is brand new. I've run it once for routing, to level the spoilboard. Then I hooked up my laser and have been fooling with that for several days. Today I took the laser back off, changed the spindle delay back to 4 seconds, and tried to run a toolpath. It goes through the motions but the spindle doesn't spin up. All I did to take off the laser is unplug it from its cable and remove it from its mount.
I can't remember what default value was in the spindle on-delay when I changed it to 0 for the laser. The display says it is measured in microseconds. The value I put in for it is 4000, which seemed to make it pause for the right amount of time. But the spindle didn't spin up.
Can someone tell me what step I'm missing to get the spindle spinning again?
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Post by gollyrojer on May 11, 2019 18:22:23 GMT -5
In case someone else needs to know: there is a switch on the top left of the laser controller that switches between laser and spindle. This switch did not get mentioned at all in the manual that came with the laser.
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Post by gerry on May 11, 2019 19:42:46 GMT -5
....except that to install that switch, you hook into the spindle power line. It now directs power to the spindle or laser.
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Post by uzumati on May 12, 2019 8:06:30 GMT -5
On another note just in case someone runs into the problem I had, the switch was installed backwards in the laser power supply box so when on laser according to the manual the spindle worked and switch to spindle to get the laser to work. Couple pieces of tape and a sharpie fixed the issue.
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Post by johnb on May 12, 2019 10:10:04 GMT -5
On another note just in case someone runs into the problem I had, the switch was installed backwards in the laser power supply box so when on laser according to the manual the spindle worked and switch to spindle to get the laser to work. Couple pieces of tape and a sharpie fixed the issue. Tape & Sharpie are probably a good idea in any case (or maybe a little "white out" daubed in and wiped off)...with mine, the markings for "spindle" and "laser" were poorly engraved (by laser?) in the black plastic case housing the controller and barely visible except by looking at it straight on with a good light behind it. |
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Post by gollyrojer on May 23, 2019 22:45:55 GMT -5
Same problem, different circumstances. I did some routing with the spindle, then switched to laser for a while, and now back to spindle. As before, I reset the spindle delay to 4000. I flipped the laser/spindle switch to spindle. But when I run a toolpath, the spindle does not spin up. I can hit the spindle on/off when homed and it will spin up, but manually doing that didn't start it while it was positioning for the toolpath (which shouldn't be necessary anyway). Any thoughts on this problem?
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Post by gerry on May 24, 2019 0:40:11 GMT -5
Same problem, different circumstances. I did some routing with the spindle, then switched to laser for a while, and now back to spindle. As before, I reset the spindle delay to 4000. I flipped the laser/spindle switch to spindle. But when I run a toolpath, the spindle does not spin up. I can hit the spindle on/off when homed and it will spin up, but manually doing that didn't start it while it was positioning for the toolpath (which shouldn't be necessary anyway). Any thoughts on this problem? Did you change back to the Axiom_HHC_CNC post processor instead of the laser post when you genned the toolpath? |
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Post by Axiom Tool Group on May 24, 2019 8:18:36 GMT -5
What is the VFD set to?
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Post by gollyrojer on May 25, 2019 15:20:41 GMT -5
Did you change back to the Axiom_HHC_CNC post processor instead of the laser post when you genned the toolpath? I did originally, but that was the problem anyway. What happened was, I made two spindle toolpaths and one laser toolpath. I saved both spindles first and then the laser. Later I came back and edited one of the spindle toolpaths, and didn't check the post processor, forgetting that laser was the last setting. Thanks for mentioning it, gerry. No telling how long it would have taken me to figure that out alone. Obviously, checking the post-processor is necessarily going to be an every-time thing when the choices are more than one. |
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Post by gerry on May 25, 2019 15:37:36 GMT -5
....guess why I knew about the error  I've done it several times. I think I'll write up a card for the bit drawer that has steps for adding/removing laser. |
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I've done it several times. I think I'll write up a card for the bit drawer that has steps for adding/removing laser.