Hey All so this is interesting.
I noticed while doing some repetitive small jobs over the last couple weeks that about 4 times in 70 the cutter went off line with a cutter not responding message box pops up. Pressing the connect will not work. So after trying all kinds of things to reconnect, the only thing that would allow it to reconnect was to reboot the cutter.
In all 4 cases it was asking for a manual router speed change to zero in prep for a bit change. and in all 4 cases I flipper off the Router and the Vacuum switch at the same time. And it happened with a very small shop vac and a larger one. The Vacuum is on one circuit 15 amp 14 awg The Cutter, Router, Computer are all on another Circuit 15amp 12 awg. Vacuum hoses are grounded.
It has not done it yet when I turned one off at a time, (so far), but that could just be a coincidence so I am not yet convinced the vacuum load has any thing to do with it and besides, it is on a separate circuit.
I have an out of the box setup 4 XXL PRO. Carbide Router and BitSetter. No BitZero, or BitRunner
The computer does not need to be reset. nor the com line or any thing else, it came down to having to reboot the Controller.
Yes I put a support ticket in and we are going back and forth.
Today I had a bit of time at the end of the day so I would try something.
I went in to jog, I put the router in the center, put the speed to low and hit the Y jog button and held it down. The router is slowly moving and at the same time I start flipping the router and vacuum on and off together .
Wow it messed up several times. always on the off cycle, I am guessing at 1 in 20 ish times. I really did have that much time
Some times it just stopped jogging and I had to release and press the button again
Other times the cutter disconnected and needed to be reset,
A couple of time I could try to reconnect but it was not pretty, . all kinds of weird things happened. IE it would be lost, so you init it and it would go to home but after that it should come to the front, it did not, I tried a rapid move and all of them returned it to home. so to me it kinda recovered but the memory was messed up. it was responding kinda but certainly not useable.
Once it was messed up nothing would fix it but to reset the Cutter.
It might also be when on the AC cycle it happens so it just looks really random
All of this IMO points to power spikes getting through to the the controller. It is the weird things happening that really convinced me that it a controller issue. Going off line could be anything I guess but doing strange things seems to be messed up the controllers memory.
I see other people have mentioned having some off line issue in the middle of a jobs, did this happen when the Router was turned off or another machine in the shop ???
So I thought I would share my particular findings maybe it might help
I see people trying possible work arounds and grounding but the Cutter or Cutter P/S IMHO should reject any power spikes.