Help with stage issues?
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Hi Everyone,
I am having some strange problems with the stage on one of my widefield scopes and I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions? Sometimes the stage seems to freeze and only wants to travel one direction in Y, but the opposite direction in Y is fine. Driving all the way in the possible direction in Y sometimes fixes this. Travel in the X direction is unaffected.
Other times the stage moves by itself in Y. Both problems are sporadic, but now seem to be happening more frequently. I am not sure if the problem is most likely from the controller, joystick or stage. I have also occasionally started to get time out warnings about the shutter when I try to snap an image, which makes me think it is the controller.
I have a Ludl Mac5000 controller running a Ludl 99S106 stage with a MAC2 XY joystick and am running it with ZEN 2.3.
Offline/online responses welcome.
Thanks,
Ben
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Benjamin Abrams, Ph.D.
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Director, UCSC Life Sciences Microscopy Center
https://ibsc.ucsc.edu/facilities/microscopyRRID: SCR_021135