I’ve done a few test cuts and never noticed this. But now trying my first real cut. And I’m seeing some weird issues with the belts going slack as it pushes and pulls. Does this appear normal? Also, at the end of a cut, if I go to jog it, it appears to overreact to changes in Z, and XY jog. Like I have 1 entered and it seems to move 10 or more. Anything you can think of the check? Also while I’m on my gripe train, I constantly lose connection to the control board. Constantly have to click “Please reconnect me” with varying results. And I have a WiFi router in the garage 10 ft away. Thanks for any ideas or advice on what to try.
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That doesn’t look crazy to me. You could try increasing the force used during the calibration process (which will increase the force on the belts while cutting)
This sounds super annoying. It might be worth trying a different web browser or just turning that message off which can be done here:
How are you liking the purple foam for a spoil board? Does it have enough grip to not slide?
Thanks, I’ll give both of those a shot. So far so good on the purple foam. Until I get the nerve up to do a little light grind on the slab where the concrete slab seam has a little bump I do have the foam secured with some double sided tape, so no sliding.
So should the force be? How much is too much?
Brian Mead wrote:
So should the force be?
enough to keep the belts tight
How much is too much?
if it stretches the belts or flexes the frame it’s too much
unfortunantly this doesn’t translate into specific numbers because the amount of
force needed to spin the spool on a given arm can vary (how tight a fit is the
spool to the arm, how tight are the gears, how well lubricated is it, how tight
are the bolts holding the two halves together, just to name a few things)
but if your belts are going noticably slack, you are either trying to move too
fast, or you need more power to the motors.
David Lang
It depends on what it’s set to now. If it’s still set to the default of 900 I’d try bumping that up to 1100 or 1200. If you already have it cranked all the way up to like 2000 then I think we need to look somewhere else.
Are you connecting to the Maslow in AP mode or is the Maslow connected to your WiFi?
Either way, check that the network profile on your PC is set to “private” and not “public”.
I use the Maslow in AP mode and have seldom had connection issues. Until yesterday. The last thing I noticed before I had to leave for other peoples needs was that the networkprofile was set to “public” in Windows. This setting implements restrictions on incoming traffic. I wouldn’t be surprised if repeated traffic from the Maslow gets interrupted also. I didn’t get around to test if changing it to private solved the issue yesterday, but I will try again during the weekend.
UPDATE:
When setting up today I double-checked that the network profile was set to “private”. I had no connection issues during the 4 hours of using the Maslow.
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This is a really really great tip. I hadn’t spotted a pattern before for who was seeing connection issues and maybe this is a common thread. I’ll ask about this next time it gets reported 
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