The latest my SL10

[PBMW]

So, Yesterday I was setting up my little SL10. Got the program running pretty good when a half inch screw machine drill went away.
Go get another one from the tool room...put it in and whip out the tool probe. Beep...beep. Hmmm. Them numbers look just like the numbers what was in there before...
So I put in 0.0 in the Z offset and re probe the drill. The machine don't stop but the probe beeps. Hmmm.....
Shut it down nad re boot it. Same thing. So I fudge factor the tool offset and get to running, thinking well, it's about 60 days and time for something else to bust on this thing.
This morning it's time for another drill....
Probe works fine.
Now THAT's enough to make me have a bunch of confidence in this thing!

[Geof]

Some time in your past you must have really annoyed Murphy.

[PBMW]

You may have a point there Geof. You may have a point there...

[Edster]

The machine don't stop but the probe beeps.

How much overtravel do these probes have? It would suck to bust the probe like that.

[PBMW]

Well, that was one of my first questions...
Apparently quitea bit. I touch nad get my finger off the button as soon as I hear the beep. I happened to look at the number before hand and it was still that number. That got my curiosity up...
Don't know just how much overtravel thay have but thankfully, I didn't exceed it!

[Edster]

were you jogging in .001 increment? I know the probe beeps but doens't record the number if you in .01 or .1

[PBMW]

But of course....

[Loose Nut]

Check the home switch next to the socket that the probe sits in on the bulkhead.
If the probe home switch is stuck (roller type) or has a chip on it (proximity type) it will do the same thing.


Loose Nut

[PBMW]

Ahhhh....I'll check that. I was running a BUNCH o f303 parts pretty hard and the chips broke nicely. They were EVERYWHERE in the machine.

[PBMW]

I believe mine has a prox switch. No roller switch. Could have been a chip. All's well now though. Self healing! Gotta love that!

[Geof]

Originally Posted by PBMW ..... Self healing! Gotta love that!

My favorite solution. Turn off main power, cross fingers, look beseechingly at the control and turn power back on. This has worked numerous times and my 'technical' diagnosis for the original fault is that a stray cosmic ray came through and reset a bit somewhere.

[PBMW]

Well that's what I tried right off the bat. I mean...No sence wastin time. Shut it off. Waited a prudent ammount of time nad fired it up. Same thing.
I did get through that job by fudging the comp a bit....
Cleaned up the machine and Lo and Behold....it worked again.
I think it was a chip.