I recently installed the new Z-20 (Heavy Duty Z-Slider) on my machine and fit it with the Huanyang Inverter and 2.2 kw spindle everything is working great except for the Z axis, When I hit start it plunges down all the way it’s like the motor is losing power. Do I need to change something in the motor settings to correct this problem ?
Hey Dan,
yes, you need to load the correct configuration:
This applies to firmware 1.2.1 and later.
Should you be on firmware 1.0.9 or earlier, after installing Z-20 assembly, you need to set these values of Motor 3 on its MOTOR page manually instead:
- “travel-per-rev” to “10”
- “min-soft-limit” to “-160”, and
- “max-velocity” to “7”
This is what the “Pick your Z Slider Type” choice sets (as shown in the image) above when choosing “Z-20 Heavy Duty”. The Z-20 assembly will work correctly if you set it manually this way.
Note that additionally when using a heavier milling motor, you can adjust (increase) the ‘drive-current’ and ‘idle-current’ settings the “Motor → Power" section of motor 3 on the MOTORs page.
Should also stall homing on Z axis not work correctly, you may also adjust stall homing settings (see here for details).
Welcome to the forum!
Thanks very helpfull. You wouldn’t happen to know the default password so I can ,upgrade the firmware
Hey Dan,
depending on firmware version it is either buildbotics, onefinity or simply nothing (press return)
Here is something I cant seem to figure out, when I zero the machine and start a new program the X position is about 12 inches off it reads 20" all the way to the right when it should read 32.125 like the Y
any ideas on what is going on with my machine could this have anything to to with some changes I made after installing a new Z-20 heavy duty Z slider
Hey Dan,
Is the ‘travel-per-rev’ setting on motor 0 set to 16? This should be the case on all X-50 machines, and set to 10 on all X-35 machines (of the Original Series).
If you loaded the correct configuration on ADMIN → Configuration → Reset → (choose correct machine) it should have the correct setting.