Generally speaking, this is working great for me. As a huge added bonus, several persistent irritants went away when I upgrade Carbide Motion / firmware. The nature of the one bug is so consistent, it seems like it might ring a bell in someone.
The first attempt at probing always fails, but then subsequent probes always succeed. I’ll line the endmill up, select “Probe X,Y, and Z” and then go… the moment the mill hits the probe, it just stops (with no green light), pauses, and then reports the probe failed. I am then forced to re-home, but then all subsequent probes succeed.
Not a huge problem, but it seemed worth sharing in case someone recognized the cause from their own experiences.
Wait, no green light? The light should always be green when the box is powered on. If you touch the clip to the probe, it should turn red. I suspect your’e not wired properly.
Ok, I suspect I am mis-remembering. It does the “green to red” thing on subsequent probes… just not the first one… I think what I am remembering is that the expected behavior doesn’t occur on first touch.
Similar problem here (I think), the z probing works only if the endmill is close to the probe, about 10mm. If it is higer, it stops at about 10mm. Then homing is required…
i believe this is why there have been quite a few posts on probe not working the first time, the probe goes down, doesn’t touch off correct, automatically goes back up to within 1/2" then the second time it will work because it is within the correct height