Run out, after using touch probe!

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After homing the OF Journeyman and using the touch probe to set the xyz axis my router has run off the work piece 3 different times. Please help![date=2022-06-27 timezone=“America/Chicago”

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Hi Bradly, welcome!

Can you provide any additional detail? I’m going to take a wild guess as the most common problem with this type of issue being related to where you specified the 0,0,0 point in your CAM application vs where you probed it on the actual workpiece. Your CAM setup might have the 0,0,0 set to the middle top of the part where you are probing the lower left corner top of the workpiece thereby causing the router to go off the workpiece to the left and bottom of the work.

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Also possible that it is missing instructions and then picks up from a different place than it should. I’ve had one glitch where it seemed to pause for a few seconds then it took off and went off the board. Took the corner off an oops clamp and just missed the metal inside by ~1 thou.

Took me a moment to realize what happened. The pause was the time it should have taken to move along the Y axis about 14" but it didn’t move. Then when it started to cut a curve to the lower right, well it was still in the lower left instead of upper left, so went off. Destroyed the piece.

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I’ve been using the lower left as my 000. I guess I do need to confirm that since you have brought it up. Another thing I have noticed is the screen after you touch the bit with the touch probe, the reading or input is different at times. Sometimes it’s .25, 6.35 I believe, so what should it be?

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.25 would be inches and 6.35 would be metric, they are both the same distance it varies with the mode of the controller. A G20 or G21 command in your g-code program can change the mode of the controller from imperial to metric or metric to imperial.

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Ok, thanks. I need to print out a conversion chart!

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Divide or multiply by 25.4 depending on which way you want to convert :wink:

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Can anyone tell me why the push button switch on the black box won’t power off my machine? I am using a power strip and having to turn it off.

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It could be power from the display backfeeding to the controller, see this thread:

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Your not supposed to shut it down with the push button switch on the black box. Your supposed to shut it down via the menus. kind of like shutting down a computer.