Stalling and losing position during program

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I’ve searched thru various posts on the topic and can’t seem to find a solution.

I’ve had the unit for about a year but due to other commitments it sat unfinished. I’ve finally had some time to get it up and running. The issue I’m having is when I try to run a program at 225 inch/min (recommended speed for hypertherm powermax 45) it stalls during the cut and looses position. It happens anywhere on the table. The 300 inch/min rapids and the break in program run just fine. The program is a complex curve. It will run OK if I slow it down, but produces more slag.

I’ve lubricated the lead screws and tried all sorts of adjustments to the bearings and lead nut mounts.

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Stalling in the y direction? Could be on of the couplings slipping.

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Are you using THC? If so you should disable and try running it.

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stalls using the “dry run” setting as well

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seems to be both X and Y

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So I downloaded a test coupon dxf from the fileshare library - a simple square with some circle and square cut outs. It seems to be running OK at 225 in/min or even if I speed it up 200%?

Perhaps something wrong in my program???

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I wouldn’t think so but possibly if it was stalling. There are a couple possibilities.

How does it act jogging? Can you locate the direction with the issue?

Could be coupling slipping, lead scre bearing block switched as well as others.

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@hazmat welcome to the forums

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