Ok so I’ve been thinking about my moshi board and the fact I have no X movement. Does anybody know if the home endstop under the X cartilage is only an endstop and could this play havoc when engraving?
I noticed a couple of times over the last few days, when engraving I get a little glitch and it steps over to the left a few mm.
I’m now wondering if it’s this endstop stopping the whole thing working
I don’t really know, but could unplug it & see what happens. Could be that it is dirty (if optical type) & is triggering as having reached the end?
That’s exactly what I’m thinking, I’ve got new mechanical ones here ready to upgrade in the new year but the optical is fed by a ribbon and in not sure of the pinout to solder the new one in.
I’ll try and unplug it first and see what that does.
@Andy_Shilling Andy all of the pin out and design information for optical end stops is in this build log under “Interfaceing to the gantry electronics”
@Andy_Shilling Is your X not working at all or has an intermittent movement (glitch)?
Does the machine home properly?
@donkjr Y homes but doesn’t move at all now.
@Andy_Shilling Sorry, I mean it homes and then doesn’t move X for a job? This is a stock K40?
Sorry yes it’s stock and X doesn’t home at all, normally when I turn it on it homes, now it doesn’t and even sending something to it from the pc still won’t make it move.
If I give it a new start/home point from the pc for a job the Y will locate but nothing from the X
@Andy_Shilling I purchased a used K40 with a Moshi board that would not home. I found some software that would reset the Moshi board. I do not have access to that computer now but I am sure if you Google for it you will come across it. The board works just fine now.
@HalfNormal thanks for the tip I’ll try looking for it.
+HalfNormal thanks again I’ve my test found the file online and I will try it when I get home. Fingers crossed.
@Andy_Shilling please let me know if it helps.
@HalfNormal I’ve just got it working to a degree, it’s moving again but after trying to engrave a couple of bits it is struggling again. I managed to do the image below but as you can see it failed. Everything just stopped this time the laser the X and Y. I reset it tried again and it stopped in the same position again. I think I best just wait for my new board.
It was worth the try!
Yes it was. I took the optical stops out and cleaned them also and checked all connections so I am at a loss now. (Hurry up new year and Cohesion3D)
