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18 Nov 2025 21:48 #338659
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I have a Mesa 7i76e running, the wiring is correct except for the alarm loop. Using a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q with i7 4-core, 256/GB NVMe SSD, i7 16GB RAM WLAN Intel Core i7-6700T 4x 2.80 - 3.60GHz with Linuxcnc 2.9.4, Probe Basic V.5 on Debian 12. No latency problems.
Once again, I'm here with a big problem. My DIY milling machine (1000x500x220 with aluminum profile frame, 20mm HGR, 1605 ball screws, 3 axes, 2x OMC Stpperonline 400W integrated servo, 1x JMC CL Stepper 3.5Nm, set 2000 steps/rev) is now mechanically finally assembled. I also got a lot of help from this forum in setting up LinuxCNC, eliminating latency problems and spindle control problems, but now I have a milling problem that I can't solve.
I have milled several test parts with drill holes, 2 circular pockets, and a rectangular outer contour, and have noticed that my circular pockets are becoming elliptical. The deviations in Y are approximately +0.35 mm at 45° and approximately -0.38 mm at 135°. The X values for the rectangular contour are perfect to within 0.01 mm in X and 0.09 mm in Y, X I consider to be acceptable, but Y is over tolerance. However, the circular movements contain deviations I cannot tolerate. I will show you a photo of the last test piece. After each individual test part, I made changes to rule out certain things.
The first change was to replace a simple Chinese C7 ball screw with a ground C5 spindle with double nuts. This reduced the originally even higher values by almost half. However, the deviations described above remained. After the next test part, I replaced the 400 W servo with a 3.5 Nm JMC CL stepper motor. The results remained almost the same. As a final attempt, a few days ago I replaced the spindle's fixed bearing with a new one, with 7002AC angular contact bearings in an O-arrangement with a 1 mm spacer ring between the outer rings. I inspected the previous fixed bearing and found no faults. There was a 1mm spacer also and the O arrangement was the same. I had also taken measurements at the spindle end earlier and actually and found no backlash.
Yesterday, moving away from mechanical faults, I noticed a difference in the motor definitions for the X and Y axes in the .ini file. The Ferror and min_Ferror points differed by one decimal place. X was set to 0.1 and 0.01, while the Y axis was set to 1.0 and 0.1. After I corrected this difference, the motor on the Y axis went into alarm mode after a few position changes.
What could be the reason for this? How can it be that one motor runs perfectly with much lower tolerance values, while the other quickly goes into alarm mode with less load? The motor in question has the same power supply and is certainly less demanding in terms of starting currents than the servo on the X-axis. With the higher tolerance values, the Y motor runs without alarm, but has these deviations. Are these tolerance values in the .ini file responsible for these deviations?
The mechanics of the Y and Z axes are flawless, as checked with a dial gauge, and the repeat accuracy is also very good, less than one hundredth.
Do you have any ideas about this? Where can I look further?
Thanks for your time and hints
I have a Mesa 7i76e running, the wiring is correct except for the alarm loop. Using a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q with i7 4-core, 256/GB NVMe SSD, i7 16GB RAM WLAN Intel Core i7-6700T 4x 2.80 - 3.60GHz with Linuxcnc 2.9.4, Probe Basic V.5 on Debian 12. No latency problems.
Once again, I'm here with a big problem. My DIY milling machine (1000x500x220 with aluminum profile frame, 20mm HGR, 1605 ball screws, 3 axes, 2x OMC Stpperonline 400W integrated servo, 1x JMC CL Stepper 3.5Nm, set 2000 steps/rev) is now mechanically finally assembled. I also got a lot of help from this forum in setting up LinuxCNC, eliminating latency problems and spindle control problems, but now I have a milling problem that I can't solve.
I have milled several test parts with drill holes, 2 circular pockets, and a rectangular outer contour, and have noticed that my circular pockets are becoming elliptical. The deviations in Y are approximately +0.35 mm at 45° and approximately -0.38 mm at 135°. The X values for the rectangular contour are perfect to within 0.01 mm in X and 0.09 mm in Y, X I consider to be acceptable, but Y is over tolerance. However, the circular movements contain deviations I cannot tolerate. I will show you a photo of the last test piece. After each individual test part, I made changes to rule out certain things.
The first change was to replace a simple Chinese C7 ball screw with a ground C5 spindle with double nuts. This reduced the originally even higher values by almost half. However, the deviations described above remained. After the next test part, I replaced the 400 W servo with a 3.5 Nm JMC CL stepper motor. The results remained almost the same. As a final attempt, a few days ago I replaced the spindle's fixed bearing with a new one, with 7002AC angular contact bearings in an O-arrangement with a 1 mm spacer ring between the outer rings. I inspected the previous fixed bearing and found no faults. There was a 1mm spacer also and the O arrangement was the same. I had also taken measurements at the spindle end earlier and actually and found no backlash.
Yesterday, moving away from mechanical faults, I noticed a difference in the motor definitions for the X and Y axes in the .ini file. The Ferror and min_Ferror points differed by one decimal place. X was set to 0.1 and 0.01, while the Y axis was set to 1.0 and 0.1. After I corrected this difference, the motor on the Y axis went into alarm mode after a few position changes.
What could be the reason for this? How can it be that one motor runs perfectly with much lower tolerance values, while the other quickly goes into alarm mode with less load? The motor in question has the same power supply and is certainly less demanding in terms of starting currents than the servo on the X-axis. With the higher tolerance values, the Y motor runs without alarm, but has these deviations. Are these tolerance values in the .ini file responsible for these deviations?
The mechanics of the Y and Z axes are flawless, as checked with a dial gauge, and the repeat accuracy is also very good, less than one hundredth.
Do you have any ideas about this? Where can I look further?
Thanks for your time and hints
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18 Nov 2025 23:32 #338667
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Mwchanical issue maybe or backlash of your acis settings are correct.
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