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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 29, 2010, 04:53:22 PM »

I sure will.  I actully used 2 different brains for trouble shooting purposes.

Also I had to do 1 more little trick, instead of using the 'CMD Spindle RPM' value in the formula, I had to use the 'Spin RPM - Overridden' DRO so that spindle speed override would work

Also in the VFD Run brain I didnt concern myself with reverse, since I have a wood router and wont be using revrse much (if at all)

Thanks for all your help Peter!!!

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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 29, 2010, 04:24:53 PM »

Nevermind, I found the DRO you were referring to, it is called 'CMD Spindle RPM'

So i now can turn it on and set speed 

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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 29, 2010, 02:54:13 PM »

Okay, I have gotten the spindle run Brain working correctly, but I must be missing something for the speed setting.

I cant for the life of me find the set speed dro, is it an OEM dro or is it one I need to create?

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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 28, 2010, 11:37:01 PM »

Thanks I will give it a try in the morning.

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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 28, 2010, 10:10:14 PM »

Peter,

    I set it up as you said and it worked well for the most part.  I say for the most part because some CRC errors did appear.

I can also start and stop the motor, and set the inverter frequency from the test screen.

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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 28, 2010, 07:24:29 PM »

I know that Peter said he was going to attempt to tackle this, but I figure I should also at least try to figure it out.

So far I have figured out how to make it run and change speeds on the modbus test screen, but that is as far as I have gotten.  Seems I am not as smart as I previously believed

I have 31 coils of which as far as I can tell only 2 are important.  Coil 1 is the toggle for Stop/Run coil 2 is for FWD/REV (which I don't really care if I get under Mach control)
Register 2 is for setting the HZ

So I have that handy info, but I have no idea really what to do with it 

What do I put here:


Then once that is done I still have to play with the spindle settings I would imagine.  It is a real shame that the modbus video covers the old interface not this one.

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Modbus / Re: Hitachi X200

« on: October 26, 2010, 01:48:03 AM »

Thanks, I look forward to your results 

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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 / Re: Trying to get max use out of limited resources :)

« on: August 05, 2010, 01:16:27 AM »

I really think that a brain could be made with a timer that a short button (1 sec) and a longer (2-3) does another.  I would most likely go with out the button for the auto zero and just run it from the screen.  Really money isnt the problem, but The computer that runs this does not have a slot for another card (atom board)

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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