axis not moving

[farmer53]

I have a dynacnc table with gecko drives, servo motors, mp1000 torch height control and mach3.

I use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move the gantry. Last week everything worked fine but today none of the axis want to move. once in a while if you keep pressing the keys the x and y axis will move in one direction only and a couple of times the z went down only. I changed the gecko drive on the z axis but it made no difference so I don't think the gecko drives are the problem. The fault lights on the gecko drives come on for a second when the system is powered on then stay off.

On the mach3 screen the numbers for all 3 axis display when pressing the arrow keys.

With every thing powered on the servos are powered up and hold their position. The torch button in mach3 fires the torch.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

farmer53

[WSS]

Sounds like a keyboard problem. If you use them a lot and some pierce boogers get caught in there it might react like you are describing.

WSS

[farmer53]

Thanks for they reply. I tried a different keyboard. It is the old original one that was hard to read but exact same results.

farmer53