Y-Axis Does not move far enough to center over BitSetter

[Whiskeywoodworx (Scott Rodgers)]

I have noticed that my router does not move far enough in the Y-Axis to allow my bits to hit the center of the BitSetter button. It only moves far enough allowing me to only catch the end of the round button. This is starting to be concerning when running 1/16" bit or V-Bits.

How can I get my Pro XXL to move more so that my bits hit more to the center of the BitSetter button?

I have tried to used the Y button to move it further, but there seems to be no more movement possible.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Usually this is caused by the Y-axis belts (and by extension the X-axis) not being sufficiently taut.

See:

Measuring belt tension, squaring and calibration

A post about belt tension, how to measure it, what effect it has and why you need to manage belt tension in order to usefully calibrate and square the machine. As usual, no criticism of the machine here, in fact some quite clever design choices seem to have been made. The question of drive belt tension has been bugging me. How much you should have, how to check it and how it affects machine performance. I failed to find any quantitative data to use, so I went and started measuring; and found t…

if that’s not the case, you can slightly increase the Y-axis Travel Dimension as necessary.

[Whiskeywoodworx (Scott Rodgers)]

Bels are good. But how do I adjust the Y-Travel dimension?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Which version of Carbide Motion are you using?

[Whiskeywoodworx (Scott Rodgers)]

Build 566, Built on 2022-07-08

This is listed in the “About Carbide Create”.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

You can edit the Travel Dimension in the Settings pane.

[Whiskeywoodworx (Scott Rodgers)]

Thank you this helped. I had to increase the travel by 5 mm. Now the bit is much more centered over the BitSetter.