I am encountering an error with the message “sled cannot keep up”. Is there a standard way to deal with this? Can I simply pause and wait for ??? what are the various solutions? I have been doing a “dry run” without the router running just to make sure that the sled does not hit anything on the outer perimeter. The path is approximately 7 foot wide and 3 foot high and the error always happens at the top center in a very large smooth arc that is near the top of the machine. Are there common solutions or is every job different and I simply have to do trial and error? Should I move the job down lower so that the angle of the chains is not as shallow? Should I Invert the pattern so that it is upside down and the large arc is at that bottom center. Is that a potential solution? The shape is like a large boomerang and It will be used as a template to make a desktop of similar shape.
This is an older machine. Perhaps an M1 or M2.
John Hansen wrote:
I am encountering an error with the message “sled cannot keep up”. Is there a standard way to deal with this? Can I simply pause and wait for ??? what are the various solutions? I have been doing a “dry run” without the router running just to make sure that the sled does not hit anything on the outer perimeter. The path is approximately 7 foot wide and 3 foot high and the error always happens at the top center in a very large smooth arc that is near the top of the machine. Are there common solutions or is every job different and I simply have to do trial and error? Should I move the job down lower so that the angle of the chains is not as shallow? Should I Invert the pattern so that it is upside down and the large arc is at that bottom center. Is that a potential solution? The shape is like a large boomerang and It will be used as a template to make a desktop of similar shape.
This is an older machine. Perhaps an M1 or M2.
The ‘Sled cannot keep up’ error means that the sled is not where it should be by
more than the error that is in the configuration.
Unfortunantly, the firmware does not do any acceleration planning, so it assumes
that the router can start, stop, turn instantly (which it obviously cannot do),
as a result, this error is not nearly as useful as we thought it would be when
it was created.
if you slow down the feed rate, you are less likely to run into problems
(because the sled stays closer to where it should be)
the other common thing is to go into the settings and increase the allowed error
to effectively disable this test (I think it alerts at 2mm of error by default,
change it to 20mm and it is very unlikely to trigger)
David Lang