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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: pplug on November 10, 2013, 01:00:33 PM

Title: Gcode won't start spindle HELP!
Post by: pplug on November 10, 2013, 01:00:33 PM

I have an interesting problem.

I wired up a probotix meteor for Mach3. I got everything to work perfectly but the spindle. The spindle works when you manually hit the start button or F5 but the gcode program won't start it. Am I missing a toggle button somewhere to run spindle with the M3 command? The gcode was generated by vcarve pro and looks looks good.

I've built or converted 3 routers over the years and have never run into this problem before!

Thanks for your help.

Title: Re: Gcode won't start spindle HELP!
Post by: Hood on November 10, 2013, 02:23:06 PM

If you attach your xml, the code and your M3 macro I will have a look.
Hood

Title: Re: Gcode won't start spindle HELP!
Post by: DonMarkey on November 10, 2013, 07:56:16 PM

Mine was doing that the other day.  I shut down the cpu and restarted and now its' fine.
Don

Title: Re: Gcode won't start spindle HELP!
Post by: pplug on November 10, 2013, 08:43:19 PM

Hood, I'll post the XML as soon as I can.

DonMarkey, the system has been restarted several time with no change.

Thanks for the thought though

Title: Re: Gcode won't start spindle HELP!
Post by: Bodini on November 10, 2013, 11:01:22 PM

M3 quit working for me today in the middle of a routine its done a hundred times.  I opened M3 in Notepad++ (my favorite editor), resaved it, and it worked again.  Ugh.