# Holey Triangular Calibration

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**Category:** Technical Details\
**Created:** [August 29, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/holey-triangular-calibration/6240 "2018-08-29T19:25:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/holey-triangular-calibration/6240/17 "2018-08-30T14:54:25Z")

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Using these adjustments, I fixed the motor spacing and fixed the rotational radius. I allowed the top beam to move around (left, right, up, down and tilt) and allowed chain sag and left and right chain tolerances to vary. I restricted the chain tolerances from going higher than 1.0 (in the way I calculate chain tolerance, a number higher than 1.0 suggests the chains are shorter than they should be… which is not logical)

The results are encouraging in that it at least it minimized error value…

Error Magnitude: 0.809  
Motor Spacing: 3602.6 (what I measured by hand… this was fixed)  
Rotation Radius: 139.1 (what I believe it to be… this was fixed)  
Chain Sag Correction: 28.023907  
Left Chain: 0.994409  
Right Chain: 0.997864  
Left Motor X,Y: -1800.6534, -1082.749  
Right Motor X,Y: 1801.9455, -1085.525 (this means right motor about 3 mm higher than left)  
Left Chain Error Hole 1: -0.985  
Left Chain Error Hole 2: 0.9938  
Left Chain Error Hole 3: -0.9462  
Left Chain Error Hole 4: 0.8875  
Right Chain Error Hole 1: -0.7822  
Right Chain Error Hole 2: 0.8981  
Right Chain Error Hole 3: 0.0702  
Right Chain Error Hole 4: -0.4148

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