I am having some trouble with multiple passes on my maslow. I am cutting a 5" square using a 1/8" bit going 20ipm. The machine will cut one pass but then when it cuts the second the cut seems to have moved up in y about .050". It will do this for each cut. I see a little movement in X but nothing like in Y. I am running GD .84 and firmware .84. I calibrated right before the cut. Any ideas?
Just some ideas,
- before cutting, send the sled 4” or so away from home and use the Home button to re-position the sled.
- are the gcodes for both passes identical?
- is one of the chains riding up on the teeth of the sprocket due to an alignment issue? Try a different hole on the sled chain bracket to get the chain more nearly parallel the sheet with your cutting stock under it.
- is the sled well supported throughout the path?
- are the arms flexing? Tie a piece of dental floss between them ,’just barely taught’, and watch for droop as the sled moves.
- is the material moving beneath the sled?
- is the sled dragging due to friction? Watch the bricks. Try moving them in toward the router. Think of ways to reduce the friction.
- Try a slower cutting speed, 15ipm maybe.
- think about the router rpm setting, is that causing drag?
- how deep is that first pass? Try shallower passes.
I have read the code and it is identical on each pass. The sled is completely supported. With our frame design there is no possible way for the flex between the motors to happen. the material is not moving as it is clamped in place. It is not an alignment issue or drag. I am only cutting .050" per pass.
Just to add to the list,
- how about twisting of the motor mount?
You might want to set up to pre-flight cuts with a pen on a piece of butcher paper. It’s not exactly the same as dragging a routher around, but it’s cheaper than wood 
and separates one set of variables - the router and bit.
I haven’t seen that behavior before, would you be willing to post the gcode that is causing the issue so I can try to replicate it?
Since I am a new user it will not let me attach files but here is the code. It came out Easel. Could it be an issue with the arduino not reading all the encoder pulses? We built this machine ourselves and not from the kit. The motors are an exact match to yours and we had boards printed using your files.
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My guess is that this is the 1st place to focus on identifying any possible inconsistencies. Even to the point of double checking that the currently published schematics are accurate to the shipping Maslow Shield.
Then moving on to locating other potential differences like “is the expected voltage (and PWM) being delivered to the motors?” It could be something as simple as cable gauge/length.
good luck!
Are you free to reveal the source? A lot of folks would like to be able to buy a pair !
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I know that I saw similar issues when the encoder resolution was higher because the pulse length was short enough that capacitance in the wires was making the pulses that arrived at the Arduino too small to detect sometimes. If the encoder resolution on your motors is identical to the ones we use, I would start by checking the wires. An oscilloscope can help a lot to see what’s going on if you have one
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Count me in on finding the motor source as well…the ones I wound up with are not working with total ppr at 14000. So, it you are able to give out your motor source I would greatly appreciate it.
Try slowing down your feed rate, you are getting about twice as many pulses per
rotation as stock, which is going to cause more load on the arduino, and the
shorter pulses will be significantly more sensitive to wiring issues.
I want to thank you for your responses. We went back and shortened our cables running to all the motors and that seems to have solved our problems. I guess just because we can make a cable 10 feet or 20 feet long doesn’t mean we should.
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I recently ran into a very similar issue, but was seemingly inconsistent. I have now traced it to what I believe is electrical noise from my Makita router, when the speed control isn’t quite at full speed. I have since grounded the sled and router and frame and power supply to earth ground. Seems to have done the trick.
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Can I raise my hand on this issue with a brand new M2? I also have vertical shift (Y) in my cuts. Is there an updated checklist of issues to look for?
Thanks
@adainah Can you please stop reviving threads that have been dead for multiple years, especially when all you are doing is using chat gpt to summarize the issue and your not adding ANY new information to the threads.
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Typical spammer tactic, it’s to raise their post count and see if anybody notices them posting in ancient topics. Wonder if they’ll respond?
Oh I know what they are doing, once called on it publicly they usually stop the random spamming and move on to another easier target.
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actually sometimes it is gaming search engine optimization. If one cannot get theirs higher by improving, they trash others by spamming the better search result in random places… notice the random link in the text for a dental place. we report as spam and that url gets dinged in the SEO.
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I missed that, I’m out of practice these days
@adainah Are you a real person? Tell us something only a real person would know. What do you think is exciting about Maslow?