Ok. Recommended wood frame build and screwed to the wall and floor. Machine assembled and updated with the 1.07 firmware (usb updated). I’ve attached serial logs of the test, retract, extend, calibrate and fitness loop. I’ve tried small grids and large grids vertical setup.
Maslow-serial (19).log (3.2 KB)
Maslow-serial (17).log (1.7 KB)
Maslow-serial (20).log (9.2 KB)
Maslow-serial (21).log (3.3 KB)
Maslow-serial (18).log (3.0 KB)
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Thanks for posting the logs, those are super helpful!
From a quick look at the data something is going super wrong, but it’s hard to tell what.
Can you try uploading the video to YouTube? I think that seeing the video would help a lot with spotting it.
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Super helpful! Thank you.
I’m pretty sure that what is going on there is that the machine is running in horizontal mode when it should be in vertical mode. This is the stetting here that you want:
Basically it’s not expecting gravity to be pulling down on it like that. The two different modes handle gravity differently.
It is in vertical mode. I make sure each time I connect and after every change I make. It was defaulted to horizontal when I first connected after my usb update. I’ll try tomorrow to select horizontal and save then switch back to vertical and save it. Then try again to calibrate.
Hmmm interesting, I believe you it does look like it could be in vertical mode.
Can you try replacing your Maslow.yaml file and see if maybe there are some strange numbers in there that are messing things up?
Which of the log files goes along with the video? I’d like to try to match up what I’m seeing with the log
Strange, double check if the machine is even connected. I have mine horizontally and there are times when I’ve attempted to calibrate for a few hours (5 hours being the longest I’ve attempted) to no success.
There as an updated today but it doesn’t seem to help. Others seem to be having issues with calibration.
Log 17 should be just when I powered up and hit the test button to should firmware and index version and that everything passed the tests. Log 18 I believe it where I was showing the retract values. Log 19 is belts extended. Log 20 I think is calibration start and fitness. Log 21 is after I stopped powered back down, restarted, connected and retracted. To note anytime it hits the fitness test the best I’ve had was 0.09 not 0.9. 0.09 with most being 0.03 or 0.02. Also it never runs a “grid” pattern like the video of you calibrating your vertical setup. The machine just seems to make its way up to the top of the board in a few moves and then starts the fitness loop. I appreciate the help troubleshooting.
Hey man. I get it. Your upset. It’s not working for you. I’m frustrated too but I’m more than willing to push through the issues to get it right. 5 hours,5 days hopefully not 5 months. I didn’t buy this for a business. It’s an hobby and strictly that for me. There are some calibrated and cutting out there so it works just have to find what works for me/you.
Oh no, sorry. If it looks like I’m upset, I’m not.
I’m on month two. Almost to your 5 month mark, let’s see if we can make it there, or maybe not lol
Same, strictly a hobby, this machine is no where near commercial use nor maybe near hobby at this moment.
I’m 100% with you, I’ve tried the newest firmware and such, with no success, fingers crossed the next update fixes it.
I think that this is the first thing that we need to figure out. Let’s try fully deleting and replacing the .yaml file and then starting fresh from powered off so we’re in a state that we know is fresh.
Sometimes if there is something weird like totally crazy numbers in there from some past calibration that didn’t work right it could cause some unexpected behavior.
Roger that. I’ll do it this evening. I think I’ll just delete all those files off of my laptop and do the usb update to 1.07 again. I’ll go from there and post the logs and videos. Thanks again.
I haven’t tried the 1.07 FW as I went directly from 1.02 to 1.08, and then 1.09. In both cases I calibrated with 500x500 on 3x3 grid before I went up in numbers. On 1.09 I went directly from 3x3 to 9x9 2000x1000 and ended up on a fitness of 0.81.
My frame is vertical(45ish degrees), 4500 wide and 3000 high.
Apart from some weird Z-axis issues(still seems a bit weird @bar), I did a very promising cut before the part let go of the stock and I had to stop it. I had made too small tabs, so I’ll have to retry with larger tabs.
I just had this EXACT SAME thing happen.
That’s not a solution, but at least I’m able to replicate it. Working on figuring out what it is now.
OK, I’ve got some bad news. I discovered the issue and it was…I forgot to switch the machine from horizontal to vertical mode 
The behavior was IDENTICAL to the video though so I’m 99% sure that is the issue. It doesn’t mean that you didn’t set it, but something was preventing the machine from recognizing that it is in vertical mode.
Can you try updating to 1.09 replacing the maslow.yaml and index.html.gz files also. That way we’re starting fresh and we know that your system is set up just the same way that mine is.
Then can you try running a pretty small grid like this:
Ok. I’ll update this evening to 1.09. I’ll do the USB way so it does everything on its own. I’ll send logs and videos after that. Thanks for the help troubleshooting. I’ll also delete any old files from my laptop that I downloaded from earlier versions.
Several logs to upload one of 3 I think
Maslow-serial (23).log (2.3 KB)
Maslow-serial.log (1.7 KB)
Maslow-serial (25).log (2.4 KB)
Maslow-serial (24).log (2.9 KB)
Maslow-serial (22).log (1.9 KB)
