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General Mach Discussion / Re: What is the step/direction pulse width?

« on: July 04, 2006, 06:35:00 PM »

Sherline mode is in Mach3 If you are just getting started you should run mach3 it is MUCH more stable...
Thanks
Brian

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: The basics of making a switch run a script?

« on: July 04, 2006, 06:33:25 PM »

you can use any macro that you like The problem is that you can only have one button the is doing everything. Art and I have talked about changing this but it is going to be after the G100 is done...

There will be a bug fix for the buffered commands..
Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What is the step/direction pulse width?

« on: July 04, 2006, 05:49:28 PM »

The pulse width is about 3 usec.. you can make it greater by adding time to the step pulse under the motor tuning page If you are going to run slow opto's run in Sherline mode, this will give you a step pulse that is about 20 usec long

hope that helps
Brian

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: The basics of making a switch run a script?

« on: July 04, 2006, 05:42:15 PM »

The best way to get the macro number loaded on startup is to add the M450 to the init string (under Config/State)

that should do it...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: motor tuning stepper motors

« on: July 04, 2006, 02:28:09 PM »

I ran the numbers and it looks like 1909.86steps per inch... Are you sure it is a 1" Dia and not Rad

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No green leds in the dro x axis

« on: July 04, 2006, 09:22:12 AM »

Good to hear that you found the problem! If you need anything we are here....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: text and bezel problems

« on: July 04, 2006, 09:19:03 AM »

How are you reversing it in Mach3? if every thing you are doing is coming out revered in the A axis you need to change the direction of the axis... I need to know a bit more about your settings...

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Coil winding machine ( Wizard needed)

« on: July 04, 2006, 09:14:44 AM »

The parts you can get from MSC ( http://www1.mscdirect.com/cgi/nnsrhm??KNC-T7L391316886 )

You would not need a wizard at first... You could write a Gcode program to get coil that you like and after that we could make a quick wizard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No green leds in the dro x axis

« on: July 02, 2006, 07:52:46 PM »

If the DRO's are changing there are steps coming out the printer port... The only way it would not put steps out the printer port is if you unchecked the "install Driver" at install. Look on the Diagnostics page and tell me what you see in the "Time in Int." DRO


Thank you
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: External reset button

« on: July 02, 2006, 09:49:48 AM »

Cycle start is 1000