Update wording of calibration step

[BarbourSmith]

Update the wording of the adjust chain lengths calibration step as proposed in #785.

The way the calibration step was worded before these changes:

And now the calibration step will be:

Let me know what you think!

[MaslowCommunityGardenRobot]

Congratulations on the pull request @BarbourSmith

Now we need to decide as a community if we want to integrate these changes. You should vote by giving this comment a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Votes are counted in 168 hours. Ties will not be merged.

I'm just a robot, but I love to see people contributing so I'm going vote thumbs up (but my vote won't count...)!

[guidobender]

Thanks BarbourSmith, This looks great to me. Not sure if you wanted me to respond here or at a different spot. This is my first github contribution for the maslow. Very exciting. Tschöhö Guido (aka Superbender)

[BarbourSmith]

Excellent contribution @guidobender ❤️

Keep them coming!

[guidobender]

Thanks for the praise. I actually did note another thing during the calibration and opened another topic. I appreciate your hard work on this and am glad to do a little bit to help. Cheers Guido

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Excellent contribution @guidobender https://github.com/guidobender ❤️

Keep them coming!

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[TheMerryYeoman]

Do I press next before I press move to center? Or is the intel just random trivia? Play along if you will because this is the stuff that is confusing to an idealist like me. Both the original and the revised throw me off. Is the move to center part of the next step? (I seriously don't recall) If it is, for someone like me, it's best left unmentioned until the next step. Maybe it was mentioned in the step before and I'm confused by the lack of context. 😊

[guidobender]

I just did a number of calibrations attempts two days ago. In the previous step the left chain is connected to the right motor and pulled tight and the distance of the motors is measured. These are the things that happen/need to happen in the next calibration step: 1) remove left chain from right motor without changing position on left motor (this could be improved by relaxing the chain tension and I put a request in for that https://github.com/MaslowCNC/GroundControl/issues/787) 2) press "adjust left chain" => chain retracts (if you had just performed the chain length measurement) 3) fasten right chain on right motor as shown in picture 4) press "adjust right chain" => chain feeds out 5) connect your sled 6) press "Move to center" => sled moves to center 7) press "Next" and you get forwarded to the next calibration step

[BarbourSmith]

Do I press next before I press move to center? Or is the intel just random trivia?

The reason we added the "Move to center" button is that people with like 12' top beams were having trouble because they couldn't hook up the sled with the amount of chain which was extended. Then we thought about just always extending enough chain to move to the center, but people who have marked the links for the correct distance would be tripped up by that so now we have this awkward compromise with two possibilities 😢

I am on board for picking one option an running with it, or for making the compromise more clear.

[ParkLines]

Hello, I'm currently having calibration problems. The new wording helps a little. Naively from YouTube videos I figured setup would be a breeze. I thought I would be making projects already but I'm two days into calibration and when I get asked the z axis to move during Calibration, after finally having success with chain length calibration. I asked z-axis to move towards the wood, to start z axis calibration and the entire sled both the x-axis and y-axis motors moved the sled to the bottom the machine frame. In the last two days I feel like I've tried everything automatic calibration, manual calibration, putting in values in the settings manually switching around wires, I'm pulling out my hair, I'm so lucky I live in Canada and guns are not readily accessible. Someone please help I'm writing and every forum possible.

[GeroBH]

Hello! My guess is that you will get more support in the Forum then on a closed and merged software topic here. https://forums.maslowcnc.com/t/maslow-cnc-calibration-problems/9047 regards, Gero