LongMill cutting to deep after LaserBeam install

After installing the LaserBeam and getting it up and working, I have been having an issue with my LongMill cutting wood to deep. I’m using VCarve and I have triple checked my cut depths and they are good. I had to change a few setting on GSender to get the Laser working properly, not sure if that is causing my issue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Hi JH,

Whenever I have a problem, I always try to fi d out the answer to the big question: “What changed?”

In your case it’s some settings
And if you leave the LaserBeam assembled on the longmill, obviously, that.

Are you able to backtrack the changes and see if that solves your z-problem?

Is the problem with the depth immediatly or a progressive problem - eg does the depth slowly becomming deeper and deeper?

Ya I have backtracked and looked at the settings, my changes didn’t make a difference. The cut passes are even, they just don’t stop at .5 inches where they should. I keeps going well past that to the point were I manually stop it.

Is it possible, you somehow set your z zero position to the machine bed instead of the top of the material in vectrics job setup?

Good thought, but no go. It is set to the material surface. I think I jumped the gun a little bit and restored GSender back to default settings, now nothing works, lol. y is reversed and z,x don’t even move. Guess I have some trouble shooting to do tomomow

Oh jolly, sounds like fun. To e clear, you did have a brand new 30x30 with an slb, no?
I ever had the need to reset anything, you did a back up, settings dump somethinsomethin?

Oh my…

Never mind what I say here, just out of bed, running on raw DOS.

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I had this problem a couple times. My collet was full of saw dust and my bit was sliding (upcut style) and was slowly cutting deeper and deeper.

Thanks MaxCanada, I’ll have a look at that when I solve this new issue.

I flashed the firmware and still no change. I can connect to the LoMill via GSender however when I direct it to move only the X -axis moves but reversed and slow. When I engage the Z and Y axis it appears to try and move but immediately stops with a thud, like when you first turn on the LongMill. I am stumped on this one.

Yes this is a new LongMill, just got it this month. It has been working perfectly up until this point. No unfortunately I did not back up any settings.

Hi JH,

Are you following the sienci procedure on flashing per foundmon this site?

Did you implemented this step?

Idon’t have an SLB so cannot help much but to look into manuals myself. What scares me is the “ifyoudontknowwhatyouaredoing” warning at the beginning of this section.

It would appears I didn’t flash it, that’s probably why there was no change. I guess I’ll contact support and see what they say before I do anything I’ll regret.

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Hey guys thanks again for you help really appreciate it. I just came across a post that fixed the issue.

Just solved y+z lock up simple in console type in $rst=$ then press run and it resets everything back to normal,but still cannot figure out why it locked up in the first place

johnpotter posted it.

Now back to the depth issue.

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@JHiggs2024 As you back up and running again, I’ll close this topic. Have fun with your new laser.

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