Another possible cause for carve stopping mid-carve

X-Carve Troubleshooting
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I, like a lot of people, have had cases where a carve would stop mid-carve (Easel gives the done message but the carve is nowhere near complete). I used to get it on lengthy carves but have not had it since following @PhilJohnson advice and directions on upgrading my software versions. That was, until today.

I was about 5 minutes into a carve and it happened again. While looking things over I noticed the XController’s front panel power-on green light was not on. I reached around the back to feel of the power switch and cord. When I lightly touched the cord things powered back up.

I played with it for awhile, slowly pulling the cord out of its socket and found that it didn’t take much for it to disconnect and reconnect. I pushed the plug in firmly and found it quite easy to wiggle back out and cause the XController to power down.

I was quite disappointed that it didn’t plug in any better than that and decided to get back to carving so I gave it a firm push to seat it as good as I could but this time I pressed it even harder and SNAP! It snapped in farther.

All this time I thought I was plugging it in all the way but I wasn’t. I have pulled on it now and it isn’t as finicky as it was before.

Makes me wonder it my prior fails could have been because of this - it disconnecting and reconnecting itself so quickly I never noticed.

So, if you are having problems where it ends too soon check the power cord where it plugs into the XController.

Thanks,
Randy

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Is your Xcontroller on the side board? I’d think if so the vibrations of carving would contribute to the cord being loose.

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Yea, it is on the sideboard so the vibrations would definitely have caused it to disconnect. I also didn’t have it plugged in all the way. I thought I did because it felt like it would go any farther but, unlike other similar types of plugs, this one takes an extra effort to get to that final seating.

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I have the same exact problem.

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