John Nagle
Plastic
- Joined
- Dec 1, 2009
- Location
- Silicon Valley
The Tormach 1100 at the SF Mid-peninsula Techshop has been having spindle speed problems. I ran a job where a speed of 2500 RPM was specified, and the Mach 3 display showed 2500 RPM. But the actual RPM was something around 200-300, so of course it broke a tool. Running the machine with no tool, we could see the spindle running slow. Entering new RPM values into Mach 3's window would change the spindle RPM, but all speeds were maybe 10% of normal.
Powering off the machine and computer, then restarting, fixed the problem, and three jobs were cut successfully.
Someone else had reported a spindle overspeed problem on the previous day, but that report was vague.
Anyone else seen this type of failure? Does it come back?
Powering off the machine and computer, then restarting, fixed the problem, and three jobs were cut successfully.
Someone else had reported a spindle overspeed problem on the previous day, but that report was vague.
Anyone else seen this type of failure? Does it come back?