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General Mach Discussion / Re: Power Supply(s)

« on: August 22, 2008, 10:28:14 PM »

Hi, RC

It's All Brett's Fault, I Think he gave him some "Stride" Gum.!!

Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Power Supply(s)

« on: August 22, 2008, 09:39:27 PM »

Hi, RC & Hood

Gecko's Limit Current to the Amp.value you set them to for Each Drive, Let's say you set them to 4.0 Amps.

At zero speed the current is 4 amps, The Voltage is Low across your servos, As you increase the speed of your servos the voltage increases keeping the current at 4 Amp's.

Theres really no need to use the Lower Voltage Supply.

You Just Need to Limit the Max Speed/Velocity  to the Z Axis Motor, To keep from exceeding the 48 volt Max .

Don't Punish the X and Y axises.

Just a Thought, Chip

Hoiod : Spit out that Gum, Get a new piece, You wont need to chew that hard, Your making my Neck Hurt.!!!!!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Progressive Move Error with X and Y

« on: August 22, 2008, 09:01:52 PM »

Hi, Carl

Pin's 18 to 25, Should be ganged together, If your going direct to the Printer Port you need to check them though as some don't connect/use, All of them.

Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LazyCam Manual

« on: August 21, 2008, 01:03:10 AM »

Hi, Vogavt

LazyCam is still in Bata version, Not likely to have manuat, un-till it's worked on more.

Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Need help with entity - Weird problem

« on: August 21, 2008, 12:57:00 AM »

Hi, Vogavt

Did you use the Clean and Optomize buttons after loading the DXF.

After you click on an enity, click on the arrow, Then you can move it around, Click on it after you move it and it should re-lock in.

Double clicking will open up the Lead-Config window.

Post your DXF with the "Reply" button, If you like.

Thanks, Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lines joined with arcs cause problems - turbocad

« on: August 20, 2008, 01:45:05 AM »

Hi, Davy182

In the case above the original dxf had allot of extra trash in the drawing (pic 1), Copying and pasting only the  wanted item Pic2 to a new cad/dxf drawing file.

It's just starting with a clean drawing leaving the trash behind, Sometimes deleting un wanted items doesn't really delete them  properly.

Hope this Helps, Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Adding another Layer or Entity from file?

« on: August 19, 2008, 01:37:54 PM »

Hi, Ed

Don't think AutoCad will import JPG's, Post your 2 DXF's, Use the "Reply" Button and Attach with "Additional Options".

Thanks, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Progressive Move Error with X and Y

« on: August 19, 2008, 03:28:14 AM »

Hi, Carl

Try these 2 XML's, I changed the Low-Actives around some, Don't change the Ports & Pins, Low-Actives.

If an Axis runs backwards, Use, Home & Limits, "Reversed" to change it's direction.

Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Adding another Layer or Entity from file?

« on: August 18, 2008, 08:22:55 PM »

Hi, Ed

Think the only way to do this is to add it with your Cad program, As a new layer, Copy/Paste the new layer and export a new DXF with both.

Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Please, Help homing my gantry on my router

« on: August 18, 2008, 06:55:34 PM »

Hi, Ostie

Quite awhile back on a  X/A gantry water-Jet cutter conversion, I had to change one motor's direction "wiring" to allow the "dir low-actives state" to be the same in Ports & Pins and the same state in Homes & Limits "Reversed" to "X" for X & A axises to Home Properly.

Hope this Helps, Chip