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winder / Universal-G-Code-Sender

A cross-platform G-Code sender for GRBL, Smoothieware, TinyG and G2core.
http://winder.github.io/ugs_website/
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Communication issue between UGS and my CNC #2480

Closed Helhagg closed 3 months ago

Helhagg commented 4 months ago

Version

2.1.5

Hardware / Firmware

GRBL 1.1

What happened

Yesterday in the middle of cutting a file on my CNC, the CNC just stopped moving and my UGS registered a status of IDLE. This has never happened before and I have been using both UGS and my CNC together for the past 6 weeks pretty much nonstop for 7-10 hours a day, 7 days a week as I try to get my small business off the ground. Today the exact same thing happened. I was cutting a file and the CNC just stopped moving and UGS indicated the CNC was IDLE. I was able to choose a location in my file to run from and was able to save my piece but that's twice in two days and I can't keep having this happen.

How to reproduce

Again I have indicated this above. I have run files on two separate occasions on my CNC, two days in a row, and both times UGS appears to have just stopped communicating with my CNC leaving it in an idle state in the middle of the file.

Operating System

windows 11

Anything else

Twice in two days now. As I cut my next two files I will submit again with any updates but I sure would like to know what's going on.

breiler commented 4 months ago

Can you post the last couple of messages from the console when this happens.

What is your hardware setup?

A common problem is that CNC controllers restarts due to EMI. And it is especially common problem with cheaper controllers that doesn't use filtering and/or isolation on inputs.

Make sure that inputs wires and the USB cable is placed away from high power cables such as spindle power. If you are using a dust collector, make sure that it is grounded as the hose can build up a lot of static electricity.

Do not use any USB cable extension or USB hub.

breiler commented 3 months ago

Closing as we did not get any response from user