Recommended windows10 settings for compatibility with Shark?
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 1:13 pm
I'm working on getting a HD4 unit up and running for our high school robotics team. We were having some unexpected behavior and noticed that the firmware/software hadn't been updated in over 5 years, so we updated the firmware and are trying to run Ready2Control on my laptop (Lenovo W10 64bit, i5 2.6Ghz, 8G ram) until we can get permissions to install it on the school controlled machine.
I'm getting weird behavior that I'm pretty sure is some interaction with the laptop, but I think I've got all of the power saving stuff shut off.
I've got a G-code file for just a basic facing operation (generated through Fusion360). When I run it through Ready2control, it gets around 55% the way through (around 25 minutes in), then seems to skip some of the steps and continue on (leaving an untouched area). Then when it gets to around 75%, suddenly the Z axis takes off and goes all the way up to the stops and continues trying to go further so I have to Estop it. It has done this (at least similar types of behavior) twice so far. I put the G-code file on a flash drive and ran it from the pendant and it ran as expected.
I haven't been able to find any log files with this new Ready2Control software. Not sure exactly which line of G-code is sending it off the rails.
My next attempt will be to try a different USB cable as the skipping in the middle seems like it could be dropped packets and the taking off could be corrupted packets, but given that the errors occur at similar points in the run, that seems unlikely. First time it did it, I was doing some basic operations on the laptop while it was running (copying the G-code file and editing it using notepad to skip to the missed area of the facing operation). That should not have overloaded the CPU at all, but Windows can be weird sometimes, so I made sure to do nothing other than keep it awake by moving the mouse while it was running.
Any suggestions of settings to look at on a laptop?
Thanks,
Kenton
I'm getting weird behavior that I'm pretty sure is some interaction with the laptop, but I think I've got all of the power saving stuff shut off.
I've got a G-code file for just a basic facing operation (generated through Fusion360). When I run it through Ready2control, it gets around 55% the way through (around 25 minutes in), then seems to skip some of the steps and continue on (leaving an untouched area). Then when it gets to around 75%, suddenly the Z axis takes off and goes all the way up to the stops and continues trying to go further so I have to Estop it. It has done this (at least similar types of behavior) twice so far. I put the G-code file on a flash drive and ran it from the pendant and it ran as expected.
I haven't been able to find any log files with this new Ready2Control software. Not sure exactly which line of G-code is sending it off the rails.
My next attempt will be to try a different USB cable as the skipping in the middle seems like it could be dropped packets and the taking off could be corrupted packets, but given that the errors occur at similar points in the run, that seems unlikely. First time it did it, I was doing some basic operations on the laptop while it was running (copying the G-code file and editing it using notepad to skip to the missed area of the facing operation). That should not have overloaded the CPU at all, but Windows can be weird sometimes, so I made sure to do nothing other than keep it awake by moving the mouse while it was running.
Any suggestions of settings to look at on a laptop?
Thanks,
Kenton