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Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 11:48 pm
by lake29
Oh yeah (Kool-Aid man’s voice), Terre Haute, IN home of the contour Coke bottle.

My background is not in engineering or anything in that nature but I’m creative and like to build stuff. I actually work in marketing and event planning.

I purchased a V2 as a kit around January last year and after a bit of a learning curve (thanks JJ) I was successful. Well, I received the V3 self-calibrating head for a Christmas gift this year and after installing it I’m having an issue. After running the G-code for the initial calibration the X & Z arms go up and the Y arm goes down. I will admit before I started the endeavor I had little knowledge, but I feel know I now a bit and cannot figure out why this is happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! I will also post this the appropriate section.

Thanks,
Jason

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:27 am
by Xenocrates
Best guess, you uploaded the new firmware set to a V3, and didn't invert the axis in the firmware properly prior to loading it. go looking for something like Y_Axis_Invert in the firmware

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:43 am
by lake29
Xenocrates wrote:Best guess, you uploaded the new firmware set to a V3, and didn't invert the axis in the firmware properly prior to loading it. go looking for something like Y_Axis_Invert in the firmware
Hey thanks for the quick response but I don't really mess around with g-codes much. Could you please be more specific.

Thanks again,
Jason

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:28 am
by DerStig

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:46 am
by lake29
Hey guys THANKS!

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 4:47 am
by lake29
DerStig wrote:http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php ... 83#p101283

That post has your answer
Also, were you a Top Gear fan and if so how do you like TGT?

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 12:49 pm
by geneb
Also, up until last night the v2 settings for the firmware didn't have the Y axis inverted as it should've been.

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Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2017 1:01 pm
by DerStig
lake29 wrote:
DerStig wrote:http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php ... 83#p101283

That post has your answer
Also, were you a Top Gear fan and if so how do you like TGT?
Not just a fan, Know a bunch of the guys that make it and I used to race and teach racing for a living. Love The Grand Tour, I'm even in the first episode (after a very long flight from Frankfurt and drive to the secret location after being back from Europe for 10 hours)

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:44 pm
by lake29
So, you are saying that your Ben Collins?? LOL

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:03 pm
by DerStig
lake29 wrote:So, you are saying that your Ben Collins?? LOL
LOL, I am not Ben but we are friends

Re: Hello from the home of the Coke bottle!

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:14 am
by geneb
Some say he eats chickens with a wooden spoon. All we know is....


*you're.

:D

g.