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Modbus / Hitachi X200

« on: October 25, 2010, 08:18:02 PM »

Has anyone setup a Hitachi X200 for modbus control.  If so any chance of posting the setup?

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General Mach Discussion / Trying to get max use out of limited resources :)

« on: August 04, 2010, 02:25:13 PM »

Is it possible to get all the push buttons, proximity sensors and a zero probe to all work with just one BoB??


Pin 10 - Emergency Stop Push Button
Pin 11 - Start Push button (triggers oem code 1000)
Pin 12 - Pause Push button (triggers oem code 1001)
Pin 13 - Auto Zero (starts an auto zero routine (big tex mach blue mod)
Pin 15 - Proximity Sensors

Pin ?? - Probe

I was thinking (Something I probably shouldn't do) if there was a way to have pin 13 (Auto Zero) trigger a macro that could temporarily disable one of the buttons so the probe could use that particular input, ie pushing auto zero disables the the start circuit and lets the probe use pin 11 until the zero routine is finished, then it goes back to normal once the machine completes the routine.  Don't know how to go about it though.  Maybe someone could slap some reality into me, or help me figure this out.  I am gonna cross post this over on the Mach forums too.

Thanks, John

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General Mach Discussion / 2nd parallel card

« on: September 09, 2006, 01:08:32 AM »

If I set up a second parallel port card, am I still limited to pins 10,11,12,13, and 15 for inputs or can I use them all?  The reason I ask this is I want to set a different input for each limit switch so I knoe exactly which one has been tripped.