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Title: Mpg and Mach4
Post by: blazingtools2003 on February 03, 2017, 01:40:53 AM

Getting my operator panel hooked up with Pokeys57E, but I'm having a strange behavior with my mpg.  I have three switches hooked up on pins 8,9 & 10 to select which axis, and these are mapped to Pokeyes using the Pendant tab as MPG 1 - X, MPG 1 - Y and MPG 1 - Z.  The strange thing is that when i try use it, it works fine when the "x" button is selected (x axis only),  moves X & Y axis both when "Y" button is selected, and all three axises when the "Z" button is selected. 

What am I doing wrong here!?

-Andrew

Title: Re: Mpg and Mach4
Post by: blazingtools2003 on February 03, 2017, 02:18:52 AM

Never mind...found the problem.  Just in case anyone else encounters this, I had all three MPG's enabled.  Deselected MPG 2 & 3 and it works perfectly now.

Title: Re: Mpg and Mach4
Post by: blazingtools2003 on February 21, 2017, 01:29:43 AM

Ok.  I have another problem.  Keep getting "motion steps overflow" if I spin the handwheel fast.  I've tried playing with the accel and velocity settings but noting seems to help.  Any one have thsi problem?  I found some others that mentioned it, but no one seems to mention a solution.

-Andrew

Title: Re: Mpg and Mach4
Post by: NeoTO on February 25, 2017, 01:30:53 AM

Update to the last Mach4 plugin. There was an important fix for that. See this blog post: http://blog.poscope.com/updated-pokeys-plugin-mach4-released/

Title: Re: Mpg and Mach4
Post by: blazingtools2003 on February 28, 2017, 12:39:05 AM

Thanks! That did the trick.  Working perfectly now