Two times on the same carve my machine drops (reassigns) it’s X home position. The first time it happened about 1 hr into a 10 hr carve. This last time, I only had 2 hrs to go… :frowning: I have made many small carves with no issues. The carve that is causing grief is a stacked text wedding sign…

I’ve had my share of headaches with this machine. It sucks when things aren’t working the way they are supposed to. Support have indeed helped me through my problems. Yes email is the best way to go, they have responded at odd hours which is appreciated. And they are quick with replacement parts, so…

Thanks for the advice. Per support’s request we are going to take the machine back to out of the box factory configurations, no accessories, and run through some tests. I do hope we have documented behaviors come to light under the tests which quickly and definitively point us in the right direction…

Ahhh and there it is. The same day I respond to this thread I go to carve and at bit change to the detail bit, the bit is off in the Y direction again. Last time I was told it was wires through the wall, and to be fair the problem stopped once I remedied the situation. Here I am again with the same …

Just a quick update, we are still running tests. Currently completely stock, default Makita, no vacuum, no rails, no 3D parts, latest firmware etc. Still unable to hold home randomly across tests, not able to consistently recreate the issue: [Resized_Resized_20220323_104820(1)(1)] We eliminated …

Did you ever figure out the issue?

Yes. [20220608_203318] [20220608_203321] :v:

[image] John-Galt: I do have the wire extensions installed to use the drag chains. Since this exact issue has proven itself to be related to electromagnetic interference (emi), I’d definitely have a look into your cable management, specifically in the running of stepper cables parallel to spi…

[image] Help! Losing “Home” during carves I did install the new rail and it did solve my issues. I have not had a loss of home failure since then. Glad this will be behind you. Gotta love OF tech/customer support! Best in class for sure! Good luck to you on your futu…

Hey Brian, [image] BJS3D: Edit: also, may disregard. For some reason, discord is showing me ancient, already responded-to posts at the top of “Latest”. Fascinating development. :smiley: I think it was on top of “Latest” because the last post in this thread is dated from today . [image] BJ…

[image] 349iq2345: grin Is it not “Discord”? Have I become THAT old already? Ugh. [image] 349iq2345: … because the last post in this thread is dated from today . It’s something to get used to. It put me at the very top of the thread and I assumed that was the most recent post. After re…

Help! Losing “Home” during carves

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smallgreenant (Jason Parras) June 15, 2022, 12:09am 88

Yes.

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Help! Losing “Home” during carves

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