[sane-devel] DocketPORT 487 - Making loud noises

[Miss Tori]

On 2/9/23 14:12, Ralph Little wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 11:07 AM Miss Tori <misstorishop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Update to my mailing below (I deleted it before it was approved to
>     the list)....
>
>     It definitely has to do with what's going on during the sane_read
>     API function.
>
>     If I issue scanimage -T,  it will start clicking instantly
>
>
> There are a couple of things that I can think of:
>
> 1 - The scan head is hitting the end of travel and is slipping the 
> belt or gear, or
> 2-  Whatever motor settings being specified are out of spec for the motor.
>
> Can you confirm is this happens when the scan head is at the end of 
> travel?
> If not, then I suspect that the motor is having some problems with the 
> settings used by the backend to drive the motor.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralph


Thank you so much for your reply.

I am unsure of how to do that. I do not see any moving part from the 
outside. I assume I need to open and watch, which is fine. I will open 
it and watch.
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