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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: simpson36 on December 30, 2008, 05:04:08 PM
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Just thought I would pass this along. I've been chasing a stubborn problem with the steppers stalling for no apparent reason. Finally I serendipitously discovered that it was the wireless network adapted causing the trouble. Plug it in . steppers stall, unplug it, all is well.
Just another thing to add to the troubleshooting pool.
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Brett had a problem with his wireless network as well, mine works fine, suppose its like the onboard graphics thing and laptop thing, some work some dont :(
Hood
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I have stayed away from anything else running in the background as it only robs the resources from Mach 3 which is a recource hog to begin with.
I've heard the smoothstepper eases this a great deal but if you're using parallel port, it's russian roulette in my eyes - 8)
Dave
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I'm fairly certain that the problem is the radio waves emitted from the wireless adapter and not the CPU drain.
I'm now running a dual processor machine and I have biased one processor completely to Mach3 and it never goes above 25%.
The laptop would often peg at 100% and I mistakenly though that was the problem, but when the new machine had the same random bumping and stalling, I knew there was more to it.
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Interesting, you learn something new everyday - :)
Dave
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Hi
Had the same problem with my wireless mouse and keyboard
Both are wired ones now
Dave
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Yes Simpson 36, my wireless network adapter reeked absolute havoc on my system while running Mach. I even got the blue screen of death several times. :( Ran a little CAT5 and I haven't had a problem since. I was using a d-link usb adapter. Just curious as to what you were using.
Brett
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D-Link USB wireless here also!
I also had a problem with the Xbox 360 wireless controller. I bought the PC adapter and installed the plug-in and it worked as advertised. It's really a slick way to control the machine, but not at the expense of reliability.
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I use a recoil usb gamepad I picked up at Walmart for $12.00 I think it was. It works great but I don't feel comfortable leaving the machine up for extended periods with it hooked up. Sometimes it will creep in an axis and has cost me a few endmills :( . It has to do with the centering of the axis sticks and a slight temperature change can take them off center.
Brett
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Can you unplug a game pad before starting to cut something that will
take a long time to cut.
Just wondering, because seveal times I will leave the machine run
while I go home or off on a service call.
My game pad is USB. It has worked flawless since I put it on, but now
I"m starting to worry. :o
Thanks olf20
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I use a recoil usb gamepad I picked up at Walmart for $12.00 I think it was. It works great but I don't feel comfortable leaving the machine up for extended periods with it hooked up. Sometimes it will creep in an axis and has cost me a few endmills :( . It has to do with the centering of the axis sticks and a slight temperature change can take them off center.
Brett
Brett,
Using a VB script, wouldn't there be a way to just toggle a gamepad/joystick on and off?
As a qucik fix, possibly just clicking the jog on/off button works for this?
Dave
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Yup Dave, that would work. Actually I should assign one of the buttons to be a dead man really. In other words, it could not jog unless the button was being held in. The buttons are generally snap switches and not analog so much less likely to ever show a false signal. I just have not explored the best way to implement this.
Brett
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If you unplug usb jojstick while drivers is on and Mach too, mine axis Xand Y just go to negativ(minus) side and hit dead end weard but that is moust likely plugin.