Hi all! I haven’t had this particular issue before but do have a smaller (similar to those discussed in this post) work area set up for my Maslow4 and saw some issues jogging with lots of unspooling and/or slack in the belts. This lead to no movement or big jumps of movement while jogging around.
To recap what I saw today:
- First attempt (shape is a squiggly edged rectangle about 12" long and 5" tall to be cut in about 4 or 5 passes) completed 1.25 passes then lost connection w my laptop. Turned off and back on.
- Second attempt made it to the 3rd pass but then the wood slipped under the sled because up until then it hadn’t been an issue with the little bit I’ve been able to use it and didn’t have the wood secured in any way. I had to shut off power to the system to prevent it from spoiling the board where I’d started the cut.
- After this I was never able to continue cutting today because of the initially mentioned issue where this time and for the next two or three power cycles (which I had attempted to see if it would fix things) I couldn’t jog accurately and saw a lot of unspooling and slack in the cables.
Note: every power cycle, the retract all, extend all, and ally tension steps went smoothly and my calibration was always determined valid.
So my question is if there has been any chance to test on a smaller frame yet and/or if there is forum chatter to suggest this is indeed an issue at a smaller frame size only? I’m curious if I should wait for my Maslow4.1 kit to arrive or if I should focus on a bigger frame or if maybe there is something else I’m missing because the forms are proof it’s definitely working well for some folks!!
Here’s my older post re: my setup
Image attached, with computer moved closer to get the screen in the same image, to show a slack belt while jogging around.
