Stefan Scheider replied to Stefan Scheider's discussion Fibre slips off left end
"Good morning Ross,
test runs were done with 2400tex dry glass fibres. Up to now, couple of modifications were implemented to more or less successfully wind thermoplastic prepreg UD-Tape. Of course, we also had issues with the filament sliding off…"
Sep 11
Ross Bathie replied to Stefan Scheider's discussion Fibre slips off left end
"Hi were having the same issue but at both ends. Can I ask please what weight fillament are you using and do you have any issues of the fillament sliding off the sides of the delivery head roller?
 
Regards Ross Australaia "
Aug 27
Stefan Scheider commented on Daniel Deng's blog post Not enough Tension
"We once made measurements for fibre tension and reached a maximum of 12N (~2.6lbs). However, in our setup, we could have tightened the velcro strap a little more and additionally the strap was placed on the plastic spool holder. So, I assume you…"
Mar 16, 2023
Stefan Scheider posted a discussion
Hello all,after many trials, we still have problems with fibre slippage on left end but right end works perfectly.For various winds the fibre aligns excentrical on the DH roller during the linear pass to left end. An additional tool before the…
Dec 15, 2022
Stefan Scheider replied to Santiago Miguel's discussion Winding process stops in G-code line 35
"We had various issues before changing the energy settings of the PC and as mentioned it turned out that it neither was software related nor hardware related.
We turned off all energy saving options and particularly the energy saving options for the…"
Nov 2, 2022
Stefan Scheider replied to Santiago Miguel's discussion Winding process stops in G-code line 35
"If I understood your problem correctly, we could have had similar issues with our X-Winder. We also tried various PCs, both laptops and desktop PCs. We finally found the most probable root cause in the energy saving settings of the PCs.
So we turned…"
Oct 27, 2022
Stefan Scheider replied to Oskar O'Neal's discussion No Movement from the X-Winder Motors
"Hello Oskar,
we've had a similar problem during setup, our mandrel and carriage motor only started buzzing but received no movement. We finally ended up in removing the endplate of the motors to get them running. More details in my previous post:…"
Sep 28, 2022
Stefan Scheider replied to Stefan Scheider's discussion NEMA23 Motors not working
"Hello all,
we played around a little and tried quite everything to get the motors running. The more we tried the more it seemed to be a hardware issue so finally we ended up partially dissasembling the motors. After simply removing the endplate of…"
Apr 5, 2022
Stefan Scheider posted a discussion
We recently bought the 4X-23 model and now have the problem that the 2 NEMA23 for carriage and mandrel cannot be controlled. DH works perfectly fine. All axis controllers have been tested for all motors but problem remained. Hence, X-Winder setup is…
Apr 5, 2022
Stefan Scheider is now a member of X-Winder
Feb 10, 2022