Whats typically the cause when the jog control is used clicking any direction it doesnt move the router, xyz coordinates dont change, and visualizer doesnt change?
Happens when vac and router are off. I have a feeling it’s a computer or usb issue.
Hi Greg,
Depending on your interface, there can be many issues causing problems with jogging.
One of the issues might be that things get stacked. Take for example a simple keyboard. In the old days, they got wired to a dedicated plug. No issues but dust and crums accumulation preventing you from being able to press a button after years and years of use.
These days however, keyboards are wireless, connecting with an usb dongle. There is a chain of things that can go wrong. From windows putting usb to sleep because power savings settings, to bad connection between the usb port and the -mostly- cheap ass chinese dongle via interference from other blue tooth or heavy machinery upto low battery in the device. The chain is long and failiures become more common.
For that reason I use an old school wired keyboard at my machine. Short chain, easy fail anaylizing.
This is, if you use a keybkard as your interface. You didn’t specify that part though.
Thanks. I am using an HP laptop. No wirelesss keyboard. I am using a wireless mouse but using keyboard too. I also changed the power setting to not put anything to sleep.
Ha! didn’t think of that. I take it won’t jog with keystrokes nor mouseclicks.
Is your Jog control section blue..
Or grayed out?
Blue. And using the laptop mouse pad to click doesnt do anything.
@Clt49er is there any other information you can give? Depending on your machine make and model it could be that you don’t have power running to your CNC, you connected with the wrong firmware, you’re not connected to the machine you think, etc.
Do files run as expected?
The cnc has power. And files run fine. Its just randomly stops while jogging. Multiple gsender versions.
If it were the usb disconnecting i would see in gsender that I am disconnected.
In this particular case I just got done with a toolpath. I did a short jog and was about to change bits. Didnt physically touch it.
Is this a sign of an electrical short?
https://youtube.com/shorts/zByiULV_Xfs?si=zOR2J5E6lekyLhwp sto
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Hi Clt49,
I tried to find what machine (seems longmillish) and controller you have and found this here post you made a few years back that had an eery simular ring to the one you have now. Can it be you introduced another source of interference somehow?
The video is very useful. When you’re clicking to jog and it isn’t moving, can you copy/paste into here what the text in the Console tab says?
Thank you for this btw. I haven’t touched my machine since. But hope to this week and will provide this. Thx
Hi - sorry I went MIA on this. Haven’t done a lot of projects lately.
This issue occurred again. This time after the job completed. As soon as the job completed and returned to Home, I attempted to jog the router. It’s not moving. Tried to copy the full gcode or the last 50 lines, but gsender was giving me an error. Does this screenshot help?
I’m assuming that when you were previously trying to jog that the jogging wasn’t working in any directions? or just the one?
From the screenshot it seems to look like the firmware was frozen, but in this case were you still able to do other stuff or run other jobs?
I was not able to jog in any direction. Had to shutdown gsender and reconnect.