Let's say I'm running a job, and something's not right and I need to stop the ShopBot for whatever reason. If I'm standing at the computer and I hit the spacebar to stop the job, the spindle raises to safe z height and stops spinning. The pop-up message appears on the ShopBot Controller software giving me the option to resume, abort, nudge, etc...All good, right?
Well, if I'm standing at the ShopBot itself, and something's not right and I need to hit the Emergency Stop Button, the kill switch will stop the ShopBot in its tracks, but it fails to raise the spindle to safe z height and the spindle will continue to spin, (no power going to it, but still spinning nonetheless until it comes to a gradual stop, all the while still at the cutting level touching the material.) Also, that current file gets terminated in the ShopBot software with no pop-up message allowing me to resume, abort, nudge, etc. At this point, I have to reset the file, recalibrate z-height, and restart the part file from where it left off by looking at the log file that was created.
So, obviously, something's amiss here. How do I go about getting this issue sorted out? Shouldn't hitting the emergency stop button work exactly the same as hitting the spacebar on the computer?