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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: moxietek@aol.com on May 19, 2013, 05:05:55 PM
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xy works, put other motor on z, nutin. Mach3 shows z moving. Had tried a program called calypso and removed it. reloaded mach3 ????
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try swapping drives from x or y to z
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Do you have the correct pins and port number set for your Z?
Hood
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I keep a written record of all pin setups, I believe they work before. I changed z to x and x did not work. I believe my problem is in the controller or the smoothstepper board???????
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I did inhibit z once, maybe I did something to that
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maybe that calypso program did somthing
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I keep a written record of all pin setups, I believe they work before. I changed z to x and x did not work. I believe my problem is in the controller or the smoothstepper board???????
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Post your xml and I'll have a look.
Brett
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ok Thanks
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Are you jogging from the keyboard ?
If so, you have some weird extended ASCII codes for Z.
Set Z Jog for Page UP and Down and it works fine in sim here.
Does it work from your Pendant fly-out ?
....till Brett gets back to ya .....
Russ
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I don't know where the jog page up and down is
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I don't know where the jog page up and down is
Under Config / System HotKeys.
You also have the X axis backwards there.
The Fly-out Pendant pops up with the TAB key.
Russ
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ok The mach 3 and your sim is running like z is moving. smoothstepper dia thinks z is moving. no power to z. is that a controller problem ?
or my xml ?
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Do you mean "no power to the motor ? is it a stepper ? is it holding firm ?
or, do you mean there is "no pulse stream to the drive ?
The xml looks ok at a glance, but like Hood said, does you physical wiring match your pin assignments in the SW for the Z ?
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z spins, does not get tight when controller starts
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Steppers or servos ?
Is there an "enable" for the drive ?
Did you try one of the other drives with the Z axis motor ?
Did you try the Z axis motor with one of the other "working" drives ?
Not sure what you meant by " I changed the z to x and x did not work".
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Steppers or servos ?
Is there an "enable" for the drive ?
Did you try one of the other drives with the Z axis motor ?
Did you try the Z axis motor with one of the other "working" drives ?
Not sure what you meant by " I changed the z to x and x did not work".
Did you try one of the other drives with the Z axis motor and Z's configuration ?
Did you try the Z axis motor with one of the other "working" drives and it's configuration ?
:)
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yes and if I put new motor on z it does not work
and connect z wire to x it does not work
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Ok here is what I suggest you try. Connect the physical wiring that goes from your breakout to X drive to your Z drive then in Mach Jog the X. If the Z moves then your hardware is ok, if it doesnt then setup or SS or Bob is wrong.
Hood
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I have replaced the motor still z does not lock.
Mach3 shows movement and smoothstepper diag shows movement.
When I change the position of z in mach3, then regen the code changes but no z movement.
I believe my problem is the controller or the smoothstepper driver Ver 17efb, 37, 2.08.36.
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I had the exact same problem. Only I would have power to Z (could not spin screw) then as soon as i tried to move Z, mach would show it moving but the motor would lose power instantly (could then move screw after pushing pgup/pgdn) I have replaced the driver on the controller to see if that works but have not tested yet. I will not be able to test a couple days because i am leaving town but i will let you know as soon as i return and test it out. I have a HobbyCNC Pro board. After reading yours it sounds as though we may be having the exact same issues.
Here is a thread that i started for this issue as well. See if what they had to say could help you.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,24465.0.html
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TY very much
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Have you tried as I said in post 18?
Hood
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My similar problem was corrected after I replaced the driver chip. I would recommend trying this also!
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I put x on z of the controller and x jogs but z will not no matter where I hook it
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But what X and Z, are you just swapping the motor wiring or are you swapping the wiring to the drives themselves?
Hood