Well if you have seen my threads in the past you may know that I have had a "gremlin" that throws an estop every so often. Completely random and usually very rare. Well I had to do some machining this weekend and was pretty nervous because it was my first time machining stainless. Well about 10 minutes into my spindle warm up it throws an estop. Great. Ok reset and continue. Everything is fine. Start cutting and my speeds and feeds were working perfectly and... estop. Damn! Reset and start again and ... estop. Well at this point I am pissed because the part I was cutting had to go out on monday. Kept trying it, kept getting estops. Forget it! Clean off the machine and be done. Well as I was cleaning it, I decided to give it one more go. And to remove my pendant. What do you know.. no estops. Not sure if it was the pendant itself or the USB extension or whatever.

I guess the old computer advice really does work. Unplug everything and try again...

-keith