Re: [External] Help with stage issues?

Posted by Stout, Andrea on
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Hi Ben,

We had a very similar problem with our Ludl stage and Mac5000 controller last year. After many months of trying to track down the problem (and eliminating the joystick as the source) we finally sent the controller and stage back to Ludl. It turned out to be a board inside the controller that had gone bad.  They were able to repair it pretty quickly.

Good luck!

Andrea

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On May 10, 2021, at 6:37 PM, Ben Abrams <[hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:

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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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Andrea L. Stout, Ph. D.
Director,  CDB Microscopy Core Facility
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
1107 BRB 2/3
421 Curie Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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phone: [phone]
email: [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>
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