Newbie- Controller question

[hstinnett]

New to cnc. Bought a cnc9000 and have spent much time in set-up. Most of the issues have been resolved as far as I know with my limited knowledge. The question that I have here is, Can the magnetic field produced by a 3 HP router interfere with the stepper motors and or the motor controllers? The problem seems to be on set-up everything looks good but when I turn on the router and try to engrave the z axis looses its position and goes deeper into the stock. In trying to get out of the situation I notice that when I press the up controller the axis goes down. It's like every command send the x axis down.

I noticed that when I set-up and run the same code without the router it seems to do OK. I did see a question somewhere on the forum about a concern for the controllers mounted on the bridge in regards to dust, but I haven't made much of that yet. Any experience in this matter would be appreciated. Thanks Harold Stinnett

[Al_The_Man]

Did you wire up the controller and panel etc or was it supplied pre wired, You may have grounding/bonding issues.
Al.

[hstinnett]

The machine was prewired, I was just this minute thinking about that. I just ran some test and I can make that default at will and it is without doubt the porter cable router. Blows out the machine settings on the z axis, must be the stepper motor as everything else is ok. I'll do some more checking on the grounding issue. Thanks HK

[hstinnett]

well, I hard wired all the motors to ground and at first I though I had it. Could not make the crash happen. Ran a small engraving code, looks good. Ran it again, looks good, ran it a third time and it crashed at the end. Improvement, but still not there. HK

[ger21]

Try plugging the router into a different circuit.

[hstinnett]

Gerry, Good point, had not thought of that. I'll try that tomorrow. Thanks HK

[hstinnett]

Well, so far nothing has worked. I orderd a new controller and motor and we will see if that can fix it. HK