Carbide motion 649
Have gotten the message “cutter stop responding” in the middle or first hour or so of a 6 hour. Then have had to start the v carve over watching it go over what it’s all ready cut to get caught up.
5 pro 4x4
Gotten the message with and with out shop vac hose hooked up.
After the error message i get the connect to cutter box. Click it and start the process over. Or I get “the machine controller did not respond. Please make sure your machine is powered on”
Normally this is due to static electricity build up or a bad usb connection. Especially as the temperature drops outside (not sure where you are) but static seems to build up and causes disconnects. If you are using a trim router as the brushes wear down you will get the EMI disconnects as well. You can look in the vent on the trim router and see “sparks” as an indication. There is lots of documentation on the forum for EMI, USB, and disconnects. Hope this helps.
I know it is frustrating but normally an easy fix!
Please check in with support@carbide3d.com if you haven’t already.
Is being so close to an electric outlet an issue?
I have taken off the vac and vac brush off the spindle and we are a hour and half in retracing. With a 60. No errors yet
It shouldn’t be, if things are wired properly.
Ran for 6.5 hours no errors… no vac… no brush…
Do remember now seeing wood chips jump to outside of the plastic dust collection adapter due to static
I guess to need ground vac hose anybody know how to do that???
How you ground the hose depends on how it’s constructed. Post a picture of the hose you are using.
Been using a dewalt 6 gallon shop vac. Plastic and more plastic. Sounds like an upgrade recommendation is coming. lol.
Have a 4inch hose system but have not routed it to the cnc not sure how to hang the hose above it and reduce it down to correct size.
If you decide to use the 4" system, you can get adaptors and 2.5" hose.
On my system, I have 4" going to a 4" blast gate. From there I use a 4"->2.5" adaptor, and run that to the machine. On the end of the hose is another adaptor for hose to the sweepy. It’s the same size as ‘standard’ larger wet-dry vacs use.
The hose I use is wire-wound for support. To ground it I just connected the wire to a ground, done.
I rigged this up 5+6 years ago and never revisited it because it works. I have a Jet dust collector.
some recommendations:
-connect router/spindle, vacuum and controller to different power cirquits, it is worth to have some separate ones installed: the first expensive stock not destroyed pays that expense already.
-ground all metal parts, even if they glide on each other: grease is an isolator, and ground the central connecting point via a 100MOhm resistor not straight- to physical ground. Must be physical ground, sometimes water pipes are not ground because they have some plastic parts, same with heating pipes etc, the electrician who installs the separate outlets can test that within no more than 15min
-change the USB cable
-consider to change the controller, its just appr. $100ish, and are (were?) available at c3d shop
Just my 5ct
