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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: mikemill on January 27, 2010, 11:08:20 AM

Title: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on January 27, 2010, 11:08:20 AM
I seem to have lost connection from my X3 mill to Mach at first I suspected mill but on checking Mach no life on diagnostics screen no pulse no green led's on port pins and when I tun on mill the reset does't trigger. all very strange as I was using mill yesterday with no problems, apart from shutting down computer as usual nothing changed!!! Can you help
Regards

Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on January 27, 2010, 12:00:29 PM
Turns out to be dodgy computer, luckto have a spare
Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on January 27, 2010, 01:54:13 PM
Trying to figure out what is wrong with computer, it seems to be Mach diagnostics screen has no pulse it says 'simulate' I am wondering if its a coruption problem. The first computer to run the mill has the origional copy of Mach and licience, I then got a lathe and copied Mach onto a CD and loaded onto 2nd computer all was well. About six months ago origional computer would not switch on, so I changed over computers all worked well. As new computers are USB Connection based I recently got hold of on older PC with parallel connection to replace stickey PC and loaded Mach using the same CD as 2nd PC,3rd computer has same problem.
Do you think the copy of Mach has a problem, or how should I load Mach onto the two PC's and xml's
Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: Hood on January 27, 2010, 03:12:27 PM
Ok you either dont have the driver installed or you have chosen an external device such as SmoothStepper.
First thing to try is go to Mach folder on your drive and double click the DriverTest.exe it will give an error message but let it complete if it does anything , after its finished the driver should have installed.

Hood
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on January 28, 2010, 08:52:55 AM
Hood
You were correct no driver, I found a file called Special Driver that did the trick, what would cause the driver to become uninstalled? as all has worked well for months.
Thank for your help
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: Hood on January 28, 2010, 09:05:57 AM
Ah OK well normally you should not require the special driver. Mach installs the Original Driver by default so looks like because you are requiring the special driver your system was not working. Not sure why you would suddenly lose the driver though, weird.
Hood
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on January 28, 2010, 11:39:32 AM
I have loaded a copy of Mach to new PC but Driver Test does not  work, can you advise (from same CD as  I just got to work)
Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: Hood on January 28, 2010, 11:41:32 AM
Have you run the driver test twice? If the river is not installed the first run of driver test should install it.
Hood
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on January 30, 2010, 07:30:52 AM
Started from scratch unloaded Mach and reinstalled with origional copy of Mach, then copied over licience and rebooted. Mach is installed and driver test runs but pulse is only 25000KH, so I asume Mach is not seeing liciense.
Can you advise
Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: Hood on January 30, 2010, 07:41:27 AM
Kernel speed has nothing to do with the licence, even the demo will pulse at whatever you set the kernel to if your computer is capable of that kernel speed.
To check your licence is being seen go to the Help menu in Mach and then About Mach..... When the window opens you will either see the registered name or Demo.
If you need to increase the Kernel go to Config menu, Ports and Pins then you can choose the kernel there.
Hood
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: RICH on January 30, 2010, 08:32:29 AM
MIKEMILL,
Maybe you need to clean up your pc and make sure it's using the correct driver.
Here is how:

Go to RUN> SEARCH type in Driver Test, when the search is done delete all the files which say DRIVER TEST
except the one that is in the Mach3 folder ( where you installed Mach3)

Go to RUN>CONTROL PANEL>SYSTEM and select HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER>and in the listing open MACH
X PULSING ENGINES , right click and uninstall the driver

Go to Mach3 folder and click on / run the DRIVER TEST and let it run (this will reinstall the driver)

Empty the Recyle Bin

SO what you will have done is removed all versions of the driver from the pc except the one Mach should be using,
and reinstalled the driver.

If you don't feel confortable doing this then don't do it.

RICH
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on February 01, 2010, 04:47:27 AM
We have progress Mach is installed, licience shows, driver test works, (only one driver) and kernnal speed is 35000Kh. When I switch on mill the reset triggers and pressing start 80 shows on machine DRO so Mach is comunicating with mill. But I can't get mill to work no jog, no spindle run, and I cant load G code or recient file. I am useing the same Syil xml as on other PC which works fine
Have I missed something in Mach.
Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: RICH on February 01, 2010, 07:31:05 AM
Postyour xml file.
RICH
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: mikemill on February 01, 2010, 09:37:03 AM
Rich
Here is xml as requested
Mike
Title: Re: X3 Not linked to Mach
Post by: RICH on February 01, 2010, 01:27:38 PM
Try the attached and see if you can jog, etc.
I just changed the config>ports & pins> estop   to emulated and got rid of the hot key you had.
Now you can reset.
RICH