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General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit Switches go crazy

« on: June 01, 2006, 06:15:47 PM »

Check to see that your voltage out of your parallel port is 5V and NOT 3.8V. This is a problem with the newer computers...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Losing Position

« on: June 01, 2006, 06:12:16 PM »

What do you have for a drive system (drives, motors, type of drive)? This will start to tell us where we should be looking for the missed steps...

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Which VB

« on: June 01, 2006, 04:08:01 PM »

It is all VBA But it is MUCH better than nothing

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Using parallel port

« on: June 01, 2006, 04:07:11 PM »

Check to see that you done have any other pins set set to the same number and be sure that you have it set to Port 1

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LazyCam won't load

« on: June 01, 2006, 08:07:33 AM »

Thanks!

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Tool Offsets

« on: June 01, 2006, 08:06:39 AM »

I have the pocketing code started but I wanted to fix bugs and get the base of LCAM rock solid first

I think it will be 6 months or more before I can get to it

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spontaneous and unpredictable Estop requests...

« on: June 01, 2006, 07:13:53 AM »

That is a VERY hard problem to find! Good work tracking that one down 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3/4 and modbus PLC

« on: June 01, 2006, 07:09:30 AM »

I think the best thing that I can do for you is post an example program. The program will send a16bit register that represents 16points of I/O. and to do this in Directsoft you do the following command (B2000.0)| |-------------(OUTY0) The B2000 is register V2000 and the .0 is saying close this contact if bit 0 is a one. The same thing is done on the input (X0)| |-------------------------------(OUT B2100.0) this will turn bit 0 in register V2100 to a 1 and Mach3 will read this as the switch is on....

This should get you on the right page and I will give you a program that I use on the DL06

The mod bus config page should be set up like the Pic

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit Switches go crazy

« on: May 31, 2006, 09:47:01 PM »

Take the wires out of the box or cable tray.. if you have the limit switch wires 1 foot from all the other wires do you have the same problem?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3/4 and modbus PLC

« on: May 31, 2006, 09:43:15 PM »

The error that Art had in his DL05 was that he didn't have an (END) rung at the end of the program...