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If it was just the stage moving by itself, I would be suspecting the joystick. The springs holding the joystick may get tired and do not hold the stick in a neutral position (that is what we had happen on our old Olympus confocal system, which uses essentially the same joystick to drive a Prior stage).
But given the other symptoms, I would say it could be the controller.
If you swap the X and Y cables, is it still the same axis having problems?
Stan Vitha
Texas A&M University
Microscopy and Imaging Center
http://microscopy.tamu.eduOn Mon, 10 May 2021 17:37:43 -0500, Ben Abrams <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
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>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.
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>I have a Ludl Mac5000 controller running a Ludl 99S106 stage with a MAC2 XY joystick and am running it with ZEN 2.3.
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>Offline/online responses welcome.
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>Thanks,
>Ben
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>Benjamin Abrams, Ph.D.
>(He/Him)
>Director, UCSC Life Sciences Microscopy Center
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