Chilipeppr, Now X-carve seems to need calibration

X-Carve Troubleshooting
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Trying out Chilipeppr and it seems that the z axis is now way out of calibration, it was fin last night with UGS… but now it almost seems 50% off in some quick test…

Is this reasonable? should I recalibrate? should changing g-code senders cause this??? seems really odd…

Thanks

Kerry

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I’ll post tonight as i don’t have machine access right now… laying in bed thinking about this last night I get the feeling I was playing with Easel as well and did a machine config… bet i did not pick the correct Screw, Mines Acme… Will check and confirm tonight.

THanks

Kerry

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Chilipeppr uses work coordinates which can bee really confusing at first. Especially when using the probe feature for the Z axis.
(once you get used to it, it can be pretty versatile)

Also I was having a weird local browser / PC issue where it was not resetting coordinates properly. It would send the rest work coordinate command but nothing would happen. Putting a offset in where there should be none. I found that rebooting the computer would fix the problem. I have not noticed the issue on my new tablet.

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I am interested in Chilipeppr as it does circits.
I have not had a chance to learn it yet.

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So My original $102 setting as 188.976 and to get the Z axis back in calibration I had to change it to 395.244. One heck of a change, the X & Y axis were unaffected and still set to 40… The only change i can think of is going from UGS to Chilipeppr… I’ve done a test carve and it works fine…

Any ideas what is going on here?

Thanks

Kerry

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almost double… maybe something to do with micro stepping settings on the Z axis?