I’m looking for a little help here after a lot of low calibration score runs. I made a scaled down version of the horizontal frame to go on my garage floor that is 8ft wide by 6 ft tall. I have a 6ft wide by 4 foot tall wasteboard centered on the frame. I’m having a little trouble understanding what the calibration grid would be for that and maybe the concept over all is going over my head. Is it the dimensions of my wasteboard? I’m getting some of the error messages that tell me that the size of my frame isn’t correct, and general crashing depending on what I put in there. I have had the calibration run all the way through but low-ish fitness scores .47 or so without much improvement over that. My frame seems really solid so I think it’s either configuration settings or something a little off in my machine. It seems to run real well, so I’m trying to exhaust settings and frame stuff before I start taking the machine apart.
If you can capture the serial messages and post them it may help us see any issues. Make sure you have the horizontal setting on, since your frame is horizontal. There is a website that you can enter your frame dimensions into and see the cut area here: http://lang.hm/maslow/maslow4_frame.html you want the calibration (and cuts) inside the green area.
I would try making the grid itself smaller, it’s harder to get a good score when the grid is large relative to the anchor points.
I also think that .47 is probably good enough. I am going to make that threshold a setting so that you can change it if need be.
Mike Fuller wrote:
I’m looking for a little help here after a lot of low calibration score runs.
I made a scaled down version of the horizontal frame to go on my garage floor
that is 8ft wide by 6 ft tall. I have a 6ft wide by 4 foot tall wasteboard
centered on the frame.
you lose vertial space really quickly, see
http://lang.hm/maslow/maslow4_frame.html and enter your dimensions
for a 8x6 frame you are more like 4x3 good area
I’m having a little trouble understanding what the
calibration grid would be for that and maybe the concept over all is going
over my head. Is it the dimensions of my wasteboard?
when the machine is doing it’s calibration tests, you need to tell it how big an
area to try. you want to area to fit in the green area of the page above or you
run into distortions that throw off the calibration (and you don’t want it to go
off the edge of your workpiece)
try shrinking the calibration grid and see if that gives you a better
calibration result
David Lang
Thanks all for the helpful suggestions. I will give these a try
Just as a follow-up, I was able to complete the calibration using the tools and tips above. I really appreciate the help!