I successfully upgraded from V0.88 to V1.16 (I think, The machine says I’m running v1.15-1470-ge2e4e9c0)
I went to do a new calibration and the user guide User Guide — Maslow doesn’t match the dialog boxes.
After extending the belts I got to the set in the User Guide where it says to “Calibrate” but I do not have that button. I clicked on Find Anchor Locations because it seems like a reasonable next step and the button is in the same place as Calibrate. The machine retracted the belts but is now sitting in the centre of the work area and a red light is flashing. This is on an 8x8 machine set at 20 degrees from the vertical. Belt length set to 1750. I’ve connected the Maslow to my home network.
So my questions in no particular order:
Is there an updated user guide that matches the current controls?
Is the red light indicative of anything?
If I shouldn’t have click on Find Anchor Locations at that point what is the setup sequence?
I successfully upgraded from V0.88 to V1.16 (I think, The machine says I’m running v1.15-1470-ge2e4e9c0)
that is a late test version of 1.16, note 1.17 test version is out.
I went to do a new calibration and the user guide User Guide — Maslow doesn’t match the dialog boxes.
After extending the belts I got to the set in the User Guide where it says to “Calibrate” but I do not have that button. I clicked on Find Anchor Locations because it seems like a reasonable next step and the button is in the same place as Calibrate. The machine retracted the belts but is now sitting in the centre of the work area and a red light is flashing. This is on an 8x8 machine set at 20 degrees from the vertical. Belt length set to 1750. I’ve connected the Maslow to my home network.
you should have attached the belts to the anchors before hitting that button
So my questions in no particular order:
Is there an updated user guide that matches the current controls?
not yet.
Is the red light indicative of anything?
an error
If I shouldn’t have click on Find Anchor Locations at that point what is the setup sequence?
after you extend, you attach the belts to the anchor, make sure the router is
all the way down (and that your Z offsets are correct) and then hit ‘find anchor
locations’)
if your anchors are at the same height as the bottom of the sled, your z offsets
will be correct, if they are not, you need to either adjust the z offsets, or
set the wasteboard thickness to tell the machine what the offset is (I think the
fix to use wasteboard thickness is in the version you are running, if you have
problems getting a good fitness value, go to the 1.17 test version and it will
be)
I did attach the belts to the anchors before finding the anchor locations.
I don’t have all my anchor points at the same height. The lower two are at spoilboard height and the upper two are 3/4” higher. I did this to reduce the belt angle.
I’ll rebuild the anchor points and then give it another go. Is the ideal height at spoil board height?
I did attach the belts to the anchors before finding the anchor locations.
I don’t have all my anchor points at the same height. The lower two are at spoilboard height and the upper two are 3/4” higher. I did this to reduce the belt angle.
Ok, that is a good thing, but you need to set your Z offsets so that the system
knows where they are.
I’ll rebuild the anchor points and then give it another go. Is the ideal height at spoil board height?
what you have is probably better, you just need to tell the system about it.
if the belts just tighten and nothing else happens when you hit ‘find anchors’
you need to post the log so we can see what it’s unhappy about.
Hi @Bar, it looks good but still needs more gotchas and real forum user solutions.
For example, I got stuck on belt lengths for months, and discovered for me that it was critical and specific to my frame. Putting 1800 in the image as a belt length will no doubt have some people starting with that as a length which may be the wrong belt length for their setup, possibly creating problems.
Where do the belt lengths come from? How are they best determined? I think the guide must make crystal clear that each frame’s belt length must be determined, either by trial and error, or through a specific method or tool, which should be detailed in the guide for clarity, and make it very clear to the user that their length may/will vary from what you listed.
I found a difference of just 5mm had a profound impact on my success. @Melvin, I detailed my process here:
I’m going to add a thing. I also had to reflash my esp32 board around 5 times when it just went completely irreparably haywire. I think instructions and links to the esp32 flashing software tools for this procedure must be included in the guide, perhaps under advanced troubleshooting
I went from 0.77 to 1.16 yesterday after a hiatus and had a pretty successful run.
I only had two questions doing this which perhaps could be more clear in the new quick start guide.
Do I have to extend all four belts at the same time, or can I do one at a time? (It is kind of a handful to handle four belts at the same time with just two hands - which is what I currently do )
The importance of entering work thickness? I forgot after calibration and cut a piece in 12mm plywood which seemed to work well enough even if I was running a bit too close to the edge of the workpiece.
A final note: I relied on the youtube video for upgrading the firmware. It was hard to see the end-state of the batch window in the video and the script ends with a question. I guess that the process was succesful and no further actions needed. Would be nice if the correct end-state was documented for other late comers or the upgrade script stated the process finished successfully
First cut. A trellis for the door to the workshop. Calibration with 1.16 was a breeze compared to .77.
(still a few stumbling blocks. I am familiar with Sketchup and the Sketchucam from earlier, and forgot to remove the G53 code. My bad)
The importance of entering work thickness? I forgot after calibration and cut
a piece in 12mm plywood which seemed to work well enough even if I was running
a bit too close to the edge of the workpiece.
if it worked, it worked
not entering workpiece thickness will cause the belts to be tighter than they
would be if you entered it correctly. This will cause some additional position
error. The steeper the belts and the thicker the workpiece the more error it
will cause.
But the untimate question is if it was accurate enough for your purposes, if so,
it works.
I revamped how the belts are tension-ed and also added a feature which will discard the worst measurements automatically which should fix the issue that you were seeing. In theory the length of the belts shouldn’t have any impact on the process of locating the anchor points (not saying that it didn’t for you, but if it does that’s a bug and we should fix it)
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