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Discussion in 'OpenBuilds Bug Report' started by Christopher Bishop, Jan 23, 2020.

  1. Christopher Bishop

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    My current workflow is EstlCam>OB Control.

    Almost every single program will randomly stop mid-city and from looking at the control screen you'd never be able to tell. If I hit "Pause" and then "Run" it will continue. It's becoming increasingly annoying and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this and if so, what's the fix? Thanks in advance everyone.
     
  2. David the swarfer

    David the swarfer OpenBuilds Team
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    I think Windows is putting the USB port to sleep (or it is electrical interference)

    Disable all power saving features. Go to Windows Settings, Power and Sleep, Additional Power Settings, Change Plan Settings, Change Advanced Power Settings, USB Settings, and change USB Selective Suspend Setting to Disabled

    if it is EMI then just search these forums for 'EMI' and 'ferrite' and so on, been answered many times.
     
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  3. Peter Van Der Walt

    Peter Van Der Walt OpenBuilds Team
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    Or the PC could just be too slow / some incompatible driver/config

    Either way, remember you are not locked into Control either, feel free to use bCNC, CNCJS, Candle to Grbl, or Universal Gcode Sender Platform 2, any Grbl Host application that supports Grbl 1.1 will do
     
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    Have you tried just using the Estlcam controller? Is there a chance it thinks you need to do a tool change?
     
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  5. Christopher Bishop

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    That's a good thought but I isolated the issue. If I turn the spindle off and cut air, every program works. Every single one. Now it's time to step by step isolate where and how the interference is getting back to the controller. I bought ferrite chokes, a new shielded/choked USB cable, and I'm going to run a new circuit to get both VFD and CNC power supply their own instead of a shared circuit. I'm also going to run a secondary ground to the spindle in the way of some 14 THHN2 and just attach it to the spindle via zip ties.
     
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