Soft Alarm Errors

Machines (Elite Series) Troubleshooting (Elite Series)
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I’m curious if others are having the same issue. I turned my machine on today and loaded a toolpath that I’ve run many times on the machine already. Zero’s as normal for my surfacing bit and when I hit run, it made it 12 lines, started to lower the router then hit a Soft Alarm Z slider.

I cleared, re-probed z and again the same.
I had to disable soft limits to allow the machine to move down to the surface of the board.

After that toolpath ran, I re-enabled soft limits picked up my second toolpath, switched bits, probed z and up pops the soft alarm again. This time I restarted the machine and tried again, but it continues to throw the error code. I don’t like disabling the soft limits. Anyone else have this situation and figure it out?

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Since you say the error is in the Z axis, is it possible you have inserted the bit further into the collet than on previous runs of the same program?

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My bits were set at their normal depth in the collet. The alarm goes off about an inch above the spoil board and i can manually move the z slider down after I clear the error.

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Maybe check your z programming as far as on the wasteboard vs ontop the surface.
If you can manually jog to the depth, that’s what i would check

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I left on a business trip this morning but I plan to follow the Masso steps and reset my soft limits to see if that takes care of it when I get back.

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Well I’ve not had any luck resolving the issue. I’ve reset my soft limits on the z axis as -6.000 and 0.000. My program is looking to go to a depth of -0.03.

The machine thinks it’s running at -6.3858. I’ve zerod the machine several times but it believes it’s plunging too far.

Any advise is welcome.

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Are you able to share screenshots of some of your settings? Also, saving and sharing your calibration settings file may be helpful.

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I reset my soft alarms to 6.3. I’ll get pictures tomorrow when I have time to run a few jobs to make sure it worked.