I have a masso on a onefinity journeyman and after I did the break in on the redline spindle and moved the gantry to home I get a Z spindle alarm, how do I clear it and what does it mean? Thank you
10 days and not a single suggestion?
I wish I could help but my ship label only printed today and the spindle is another month out.
If you’ve figured it out by now, mark the post.
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I get Z axis alarm all the time when I try to home if I leave the machine in the home location and try to home again. I dont think it likes not being able to move before hitting the limit. I have also had this happen with the X axis. Try to move the Z axis a little bit then home the machine again. You will have to double click the home button fast.
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The only times I’ve had a Z alarm, it was because a cable was pinched somewhere preventing the slider from moving in its intended direction.
Not hard to find and probably not what you have going on, but it’s worth checking.
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I figured it out and I am not sure if its a bug or something else but instead of double tapping the home button if you triple tap to home the Z homing sensor stops working and the Z hits a hard limit and errors out. The Masso screen being moveable has me sometimes second guessing if I double tapped so I sometimes triple tap and viola my issue.
I feel like this has to be something other folks have done without realizing unless I am the only person to ever triple tap it.
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When I set up to home the machine, I just move the gantry around first and make sure the spindle is roughly half way on the Z, and about a foot away from the X and Y corner. It doesn’t really matter how far the X, Y or Z has to travel, as long as it has space to travel to the sensor.
For anyone who works with MIDI or SMPTE time code, you always leave a pre-roll gap to allow time for separate machines to communicate and lock up. (It used to take seconds in the old days, now its ms…).
In the same way, if the X, Y and Z on the CNC can’t travel to the sensor and trigger it, then the sequence can’t cycle through. If there’s no space, there’s no travel, and you get an error.
Just give some space between the X, Y, Z and the sensors, and hit the home button again.
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