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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Looking for Support

« on: July 26, 2021, 12:27:53 PM »

Did you run the Po-blocks software .It should be able to find see and allow you to configure your system . Are you using win10 or 7 ?

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys relay connect

« on: July 23, 2021, 12:16:53 PM »

One side of the relay is connected to your Pokeys device and the other side is connected to what you want to operate . What are you trying to turn on and off with the relay  ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach support sucks - alternatives to match 4

« on: July 21, 2021, 01:59:31 PM »

I have to disagree . Most of the problems I have had were resolved and a lot are caused by the operator . I use a usb stick to transfer programs and I'm pretty sure any issues are with rouge software that gets on the flash card . My tool changer took a long time to figure out but they stuck with me and it now works. They probably have 10s of thousands of emails to deal with .I would suggest to be polite be patience and have respect for people dong you a service. Good luck sir.

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys 57e and Mach4 mill spindle encoder SRO question

« on: July 19, 2021, 05:22:59 PM »

Can you rigid  tap ?

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys 57e and Mach4 mill spindle encoder SRO question

« on: July 19, 2021, 04:58:22 PM »

What are you using for a spindle motor ?

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys 57e and Mach4 mill spindle encoder SRO question

« on: July 19, 2021, 03:29:02 PM »

In the po-blocks software do you see the the input blocks switching on and off . I have the same setup and have found the line driver between the encoder and the M16 nu-reliable . I have had 3 burn up . Ill give you an example I was threading on Friday nice get up Sat morning and try to thread and nothing as soon as it hit the line with with the spindle speed the program stops . My spindle  still worked worked but would not run a program with threading then I noticed the spindle rpm was not displayed . I now keep several line drives around . Check your diagnostic screen .

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Servo Spindle configuration by step and dir mode

« on: July 12, 2021, 07:50:24 AM »

It looks simple but is not , Mach3 can't control the motion .It has to be implemented by a motion controller card . I was told by cnc4pc that they have been working with a smooth stepper to do this . I did have a servo spindle working on Mach3 with a Pokeys 57 but they don't support threading when using a spindle as a servo.  Its not as easy as just trying to set up   Mach3. You need  the hardware to support this . And the motion controller mfg. don't make it easy to see what their motion controllers will and wont do .Good luck sir.

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PoKeys / Re: Pokey57CNC Pendent signals

« on: July 08, 2021, 12:13:32 PM »

If I'm not mistaken you will be adding a pendant  script to your start script you would change the value in your pendant script .

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problems with A-Axis

« on: June 04, 2021, 11:33:28 AM »

Have you tried messing with this ?

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SmoothStepper USB / Rigid taping

« on: May 21, 2021, 12:53:37 PM »

If I understand correctly the Ethernet smooth stepper will not do rigid tapping ? Is it possibly a future function that will be added ?