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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Cooper on February 28, 2007, 05:28:16 AM

Title: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Cooper on February 28, 2007, 05:28:16 AM

Dear All,

I bought my cnc controller yesterday and i connect everything as in manual. The board works very well in Kcam (Kcam is explained in manual and i configured this program works very well). But i would like to buy Mach3 and so i need to configure it for Mach3. I took this ss from related softwares :

Mach3 : (Not Working)
(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/152/machconfwa3.th.jpg) (http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=machconfwa3.jpg)

KCam : (Works well)
(http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9306/kcamconfqz0.th.jpg) (http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kcamconfqz0.jpg)

So, what's the point? What is wrong with these configuration?

TIA

Cooper

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Chaoticone on February 28, 2007, 07:06:57 AM

Cooper,
    Post your xml file here for us to look at.

Brett

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Cooper on February 28, 2007, 07:17:05 AM

Hello Brett,

Sorry, i forgot to add. Here it is :

http://rapidshare.com/files/18691175/Mach3Mill.xml.html

I tried to add file content here but my message exceeds max allowed length.

Cooper

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Cooper on February 28, 2007, 08:55:48 AM

Dear All,

I solved my problem with Sherline 1/2 option.
Thank you for your kind interest.

Cooper

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Brian Barker on February 28, 2007, 09:03:28 AM

What are you running for drives? Need to keep a list in my head that have slow opto's....

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Chaoticone on February 28, 2007, 09:10:23 AM

 ;D


Brett

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Cooper on March 01, 2007, 02:16:48 AM

Dear Brian,

I bought my driver via Ebay. Here is the link :

http://cgi.ebay.com/4-AXIS-CNC-ROUTER-OR-MILL-STEPPER-MOTOR-DRIVER-BOARD_W0QQitemZ230098501074QQihZ013QQcategoryZ78196QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This driver is based on Allegro A3977 driver chip and it has 6N136 Optocoupler. As you know 6N136 is 1 Mbit/sec opto and quite fast to control signals. I don't know what the problem is but i can use it in Mach3 trial :)

Cooper

Title: Re: Works in KCam, Not working in Mach3
Post by: Brian Barker on March 01, 2007, 07:17:42 AM

The G201's can have a step pulse that is only 5us long... that is FAST!