Originally Posted by gsattler  We found that by soldering a row of 82uF capacitors between the parallel port pins to ground that we were able to filter out the spurious spikes that were causing the missed steps or added steps. CNC-Step should just properly filter the parallel port and alot of these problems would go away. |
I own a 720s machine, I have also had some problems with loosing steps and halt on x and y axis.
When I changed from win pcnc to win pcnc usb, the halt problem was gone.
But I am stilling loosing step, the stepper motor sometimes have a strange uneven sound. I think this is the reason for loosing steps.
Gsattler, do you have pictures of your repair? Maybe this is my problem too?
Sorry for my bad english...