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Malte, I have a 600mm engineering ruler and besides some possible slack issues, moving 400mm only yields a maximum of ~0.1mm error in the X direction and no detectable error in the Y direction. I think that there is a slight slack issue on the X axis, since there is sometimes a very small amount of ...

Are you sure that the box size for up camera is set correctly? You can check it by measuring needle (uplooking camera setup, needle, click measure), move the needle a known amount (shift+F key is 1mm), measure again; the difference should be 1mm. When I move the machine 1mm either way in the X dire...

Thank you for the reply, it is greatly appreciated. I did note that "If I push F5 the needle moves left relative to the center point." That said, it appears that my camera is oriented correctly. I had never thought about using the needle like that. When I measure using the needle movement ...

I am able to successfully pick up and place a part multiple times with it remaining centered, but if I rotate the part it still ends up skewed. This means that my problem is still with the wobble calibration. I am following the instructions set forth in this thread but there is still something off. ...

Still working on it, but now my machine has another problem where the Z axis causes the connection to break with any small jog movements, (F11 or F12 or F11/F12+shift). The machine head doesn't move, the program hangs, then throws up error: "CNC-Z: Timeout / CNC connection cut!" Homing and...

I've been trying to get my LitePlacer working, and I've been having trouble getting it working right. I can run the needle calibration routine and get the camera lined up spot on the impression the needle left, then go to place a component and it the needle will miss the component pickup by ~1 to 2m...

Goto device manager and set the com port to 115k flow control to xon/xoff. Also make sure you have the later liteplacer software. I think that mine is set to the default 9.6K speed and default flow control. I will try this and see what it does, but I won't get to it until tomorrow night. Last night...

Just a quick update: I downgraded the firmware to 438.02 and the random crashing seems to have stopped. I am now having a few other issues that I can't seem to figure out, but I'll start another thread about those.

I just had the same problem, used the tiny g update thingy to the latest version and now it works perfect. Thanks! I also updated and got it working, but now the program crashes intermittently. I am not sure exactly what causes it because it isn't always at the same time. I do not believe that it i...

I just got my machine finished up and installed the x64 drivers from the FTDI website. I am also experiencing the same error when I open the LitePlacer program. The TinyG turns on and initializes with the flashing red light and constant blue light, and Windows does recognize it on Com 5. Also, I am ...