Breaking Bits After an "S" stop and "R" resume

[ted]

Hello All,

It would be very helpful to get samples of a couple of the files that are giving trouble with Resume. If you could send the file, along with your ShopBot.ini file that you can find by going to Help> User 'D'ata Files (Windows now puts them in lots of different places depending on Win version). The ini file helps us duplicate your exact setup. And, if you could list the exact steps that lead to a failure it would be great ...
[support @ ShopBotTools.com or ted @ ShopBotTools.com]

We had thought that the current version 3.6.28 was working pretty reliably with respect to Stop/Resume ... so this may help us understand something we are missing.

Note that the "S-Stop" and the "Spacebar-Stop" & "Enter-Stop" (as well as the Stop-Button-Stop on a Standard ShopBot) are now all the same. They should each produce a ramped stop and a pull up if the bit is below the Safe-Z height. After hitting Resume, the Z should go back to cutting height and movement continue.

Thanks, -Ted Hall, ShopBot Tools

[ken_rychlik]

Ted,

Thanks for posting. Personally I stopped "upgrading at version 3.6.20 as it seemed nothing but more trouble was comming every time I did an upgrade.

Are you telling me it's safe and my machine will not be crashing into the hard stops if I upgrade like last time? Normal things like a C2, or C3 command will work too??

I'm scared to death to upgrade.

[cabindoors]

Thanks Ted Hall for your quick reply.

I just checked the version that I am using. It is 3.4.27

Could the solution be simply that I should upgrade to 3.6.28? Has this version addressed the "S" and "R" command problem?

I could send you my .ini file if you'd like but I usually don't keep the .txt files generated after a run.

Thanks again.

Tom

[ken_rychlik]

Tom,

That version you are running is antique.

If you are running an old machine without at least the 4g upgrade, that may be the latest you can use though.

I can understand from Ted's perspective everyone should be on the latest version to help in troubleshooting. If we are all running different versions, we will all have different problems I'm sure.

[cabindoors]

You guessed it. I'm running a 2004 Shopbot without 4G upgrade.

[cabindoors]

Does anyone know whether my PRTStandard (2004 without 4g upgrade) will run with the newer Shopbot Verson 3.6.28 ?

What will happen if I try it?

I've read the list of "fixes" that were made for various versions and I see that I'm having those same problems with the older version (3.4.27) such as occasional comm communication problems, this current problem and many others.

I assume that V3.4.27 is the best that will run on my machine. Am I right?

[Gary Campbell]

Tom...
According to the SB dowload software page:

"For older PRT ShopBotsthat do not have PRSstandard or V4g Upgrades (see above for upgraded Control Boxes)"


Looks like you have the latest version that you can use.