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Galil / Re: Mach3 with a DMC-2162 (Aero)

« on: February 07, 2011, 08:05:36 PM »

OK, I uninstalled Mach3 and reloaded it, same problem. So I switched the encoder wires and everything looks good with the DRO's. I was resetting my A-axis and now for some reason I can do in the plus direction (arrow key up) but when I go in the negative direction (arrow key down) the A-axis wont move. I click out of "Motor Tuning" and at the bottom of the screen I get this error:

Mon - 16:59:47 ---Galil Error: 22 Begin not possible due to limit switch.

I have my switches all set-up like they were before I reinstalled. A only has a home switch... no limit switches.

Any ideas would be great

Thanks,

Aero


BTW I haven't tried the X-axis yet... I like to get one going before I mess with the others.

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Galil / Mach3 with a DMC-2162 (Aero)

« on: February 07, 2011, 06:35:35 PM »

Hello all, I was having some issues with my DMC-2162 playing nice with Mach3. I have gotten through a few of the problems, with help from "battwell" and "smurph", thanks again guys.

OK, now it seems that the DMC and Mach3 are talking to each other. I have set-up my A-axis (rotary axis), and it works sweet!! I moved on to the X-axis and here is where I ran into a problem.

I enabled the X-axis and noticed the DRO's were reading reverse. I went to config>ports and pins>motor output, and enabled "Dir LowAtive" for the X-axis, which switched the direction of the DRO's. I went to Motor Tuning and set my velocity and acceleration. I ran the motor and I could tell I needed to adjust my PID's a little. Plus I noticed that the flange that bolts the servo motor to the machine was out of index. I had to take the motor apart to index it correctly. I got it back together and went straight to "Motor Tuning", and the axis ran away. I went back to config>ports and pins>motor output to check that the "Dir LowAtive" was still enabled, and it was. Now either with the "Dir LowAtive" enabled or not the DRO's always read backwards.

I tried to see if it was just an X-axis thing, but I tried to reverse my A-axis and the DRO's don't change.

Should I try reinstalling Mach3? I reloaded the Galil plugin with no effect.


Any help would be GREEEEEAAAT!!!!


Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 06:16:12 PM »

I was thinking the same thing. didn't think I would take up so much space with this


Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 06:00:51 PM »

It's like the "Dir LowActive" isn't working anymore for some reason in config>ports and pins>motor output, for none of my motors. I reinstalled the plugin, but it had no effect.


Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 05:57:48 PM »

when you say indexed the motor- not the encoder end i hope.

LOL, No I just had to index the flange that bolts the servo to the machine. What i don't understand is that it worked before I did the motor work. I tried it on the A-axis and I can't get that to turn the wrong way either.  Strange!!!


Thanks,

Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 05:32:04 PM »

This is from the "Mach3Mill_Install_Config.pdf":

If the axis moves in the wrong direction (Minus when it should move Plus), there are three ways to fix
the problem. Click the Save button to save the axis settings, then do one of the following:

• Change the Low Active setting for the Dir pin of the axis in Config>Ports and Pins>Motor Outputs
tab (and Apply it).


At first this worked great, but since I indexed the mounting flange on the motor it isn't working right (which has nothing to do with direction of the motor). I move the axis in the plus direction and the DRO's show -, then when I switch the "Low Active setting" and reset Mach3 and move in the plus direction the DRO's still show -.


Sorry about saying it twice, thought I needed to clarify it a little more.

Thanks,

Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 05:00:28 PM »

the incom signal on the icm needs to be connected to ground if you want normally closed to operate active low for the abort signal. saves breaking your estop switch!

OK I will try that.

I have a new problem. I'm setting up the X-axis to run on Mach3, I noticed that the DRO's are showing the wrong direction, so I went to config>ports and pins>motor output and enabled "Dir LowActive". Worked great, but I had a little noise in the motor (PID thing) and I noticed the servo motor was indexed wrong on the machine. I had to take the motor apart and index it correctly. I got it all back together and tried it. The motor ran away and now it's back to the same.. DRO's are running the wrong way, but this time changing the "Dir LowActive" isn't changing the direction.

Has anyone ran across this problem?


Thanks,

Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 01:42:40 PM »

It's an ICM-2900, the tech at Galil told me that the switch is active low and can't be changed . I have the e-stop hooked to IN8 on the ICM and I have that input routed to Mach3 as E-stop so I will be OK tell I get the new switch or I take this one apart and see if I can make it normally open.

the abort can be either hi or low depending on the polarity of the incom signal
for safety it should be wired normally closed. that way if wire gets snapped it stops

I total agree, I will look into the Galil config and see if I can change it.

Thanks,
Aero

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 01:04:10 PM »

P.S. The tech at Galil told me that the only way, he could think of, Mach3 able to move the A-axis in an E-stop state, was that Mach3 must bombard the controller tell it moves.

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 07, 2011, 01:02:01 PM »

OK, this is REALLY strange. I was on the phone with a Galil tech and we were going through Galil Tools(GT) trying to figure out why I couldn't move the A-axis in GT. He had me input a bunch of commands and then asked me if I had anything hooked up to the "Abort" on my ICM, I told him I had an E-Stop hooked to it (which I just hooked up last Wed or Thur, from reading people here, suggesting that the E-stop be hooked up to "Abort" so Galil can disable the amps). I unhooked that wire and BAM!! I have a normally closed E-stop, I guess I need to get a normally open one. I have nice smooth movement in my A-axis!!! When I asked him how Mach3 was able to move the A-axis at all with the E-stop on the Galil he had no real answer, but everything seems to be fine now!!


I appreciate all the help you guys have given me. I hope that this new INFO might help other people reading this forum from going through what I have


MUCH thanks,

Aero