Top thread breaks on caps

[twinsmom2]

I have been working with a professionally digitized design and I am so frustrated. I have tried so many things. The latest sew out I just took straight to the machine and used default settings on everything except material thickness.
Settings were Thread Feed Columns:40 Run/Fill:100 Material Thickness: 8 Lower feed Limit: 1 Got top thread breaks every few hundred stitches and the fill looks lean with a very slight bobbin border showing on the top. Previously, I tried the design on a flat that I thought was comparable to the cap (only without the center seam, of course) and it sewed out good. Ussing a conventional cap frame.HELP

[Mike Garber]

We set our lower feed limit to the lowest material thickness we want...like 8.

Mike

[gcannon]

Feed more top thread- start with about 35 on column feed and 103 on fill feed. I set lower feed limit on 2 for everything with good results.

[twinsmom2]

Thanks so much, will give it a try. I was way off obviously.

[Rod or Sharon]

Twinsmom,

The only time "auto lower limit" will work is "if" you are using "auto acti-feed". If you are using "Standard" acti-feed, the "auto lower limit" is not a working function. If you are using "Standard", then it allows you to set your "Material Thickness" to whatever you want up to 40 and it will stay there as a "constant" and not change.

If you are using "Auto acti-feed" and set your "auto lower limit" to say...8....then you are telling the auto function to never go below 8 but it can regulate itself above 8 automatically...

Rod springer
Amaya Tech & Trainer

[amayaki]

I'm late into the discussion, and wondered if the top thread break was a SNAP (thread flies up through needle hole and other guides holes), or just a break?

My Amaya tech has just found and fixed an electronic glitch in my Amaya (30 months old, 5 million stitches) where the command to push thread down and through, had ceased to function, so when the cut-the-thread command engaged, there was no loose thread being fed down, therefore the upper thread SNAPPED. Might be a thought to consider.