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I've just had my new Shark SD110 for a few weeks. It's taken more time than I thought to get up to speed, but I have created a Spoilboard, surfaced it, and have used Vcarve to design clamps. Up until now, anything that wasn't working as expected could be explained by something I wasn't doing, or doing something wrong. When finishing the last Toolpath, things went south, and I can't see any reason why.

After the toolpath was complete, it returned to X and Y zero, with Z a half inch above the project surface – all just as I expected. The router continued to run, as router control is not offered on the SD110. After about 5 seconds, the router began to move in the negative Y direction. It quickly hit the end of travel, but continued to try moving further. By the time I stopped it, the Y location showed -8.544.

The Toolpath file ends with the X and Y return to Zero.

Anyone else experienced this? Ideas? How to fix?

I've sent this to Nextwave Support, but don't expect an answer until next week.

Did you ever get an answer on the Y problem?

Next wave replaced both the controller and pendent, but still had issues. I realized I did not have any problems when I ran the Gcode file from the pendent, so I worked on eliminating anything that could be caused by my laptop. I masked off the mouse area built into the keyboard and then installed a wireless mouse. I didn’t see the problem after that, but I only used it a few times during the winter. When I fired it up this spring there was a ready2control update. I’ve used it several more times since the update, running from the computer, with no problems.