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PoKeys / Re: Changing Charge Pump frequency

« on: October 24, 2016, 11:24:28 PM »

Thanks for the reply - the 5KHz charge pump is not too much of a problem. I built a switched 12.5KHz oscillator using a LM555 IC to replace the 5KHz charge pump and I can see that will work fine for the setup I have here.

Thanks
Richard

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PoKeys / Changing Charge Pump frequency

« on: October 13, 2016, 08:49:38 PM »

HI

Planning to use a 57CNCdb25 USB to parallel port unit on my existing parallel port connected CNC  machine.

Have just realised I’m possibly going to have a problem with incompatible charge pump frequencies.
 The 57CNCdb25  generates a 5KHz signal but the breakout board that it will interface to rquires a 12.5KHz input signal.......................

 Does anyone know if it’s possible (and how it can be done) to change the 57CNCdb25 charge pump to generate a 12.5KHz output?. I’m hoping it would likely be a simple software change.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks
Richard 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 07, 2015, 03:23:36 AM »

Success..............M06 macro is now working.

Interestingly, the keyboard is working correctly now, also probing appears to now work (correctly!). Don't know what was going on before................

Basically, as suggested, I deleted all of Mach4 including profiles, and reinstalled and setup from scratch. Got the sim plugin only working and tested, then installed, configured Darwin and Mach4 - testing at each step and loging results. Finally a full test.

Thanks blockhead, Daz and others for suggestions and time - I greatly appreciated your feedback.This forum is definately a great resource.

Richard

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 05, 2015, 11:04:00 PM »

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions

So far have been able to eliminate the error messages -  seems it was caused by the windows date somehow reverting back to the start up time of the new/old  MB - probably occured when I  replaced the battery on the MB, but I do remember resetting the date and time after the change.
No impact on the M06 problem though.
I'm fairly confident that the .ini file is now being updated correctly.

Previously I'd started reading/learning Lua, so I'd already looked for syntax errors in the M6 macro, with no luck there. Also logging on, reinstalling with administrator rights - no luck there either.
The M4 history logging is great - attached is a log from the machine running a short section of GCode that has a couple of M06 commands in it - (V 2803).
From what I can determine from the log, it seems to me that Mach4 is working correctly.  I'm now thinking that the machine configuration setup is not correct and/or the maping is incomplete somehow ...............but I could be wrong.

Have now just completed retesting with M4 version 2336 as blockhead suggested. Result however is the same  - no stops for M6.  When compared, Machine and history log files for both Versions 2336 and 2803 are essentially the same
  So I'm now at the stage where I'd really appreciate it if someone with much greater knowledge could have a look at the attached log and machine file and see what they can determine from it before I annoy mach support.
Having a reference or generic machine file that is known to work  (to compare inputs/outputs that have been enabled or not etc) would be very helpful. Attached is the log file for V2803 and machine.ini file.

 Once again thanks in advance for suggestions and help.

 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 03, 2015, 08:12:32 PM »

Hi blockhead

Unfortunately no success using Adminstrator as login.
 Tried reinstalling as Administrator but no change.
 
What I have found is that the .ini file is not being copied to. Getting the following errors reported:

Error
Failed to modify file times for "(error 0: the operation completed successfully).
Details:
x Failed to copy the file c:\mach4Hobby\Profiles\SeigX2-6\machine.ini to
error 0 : the operation completed successfully)
x Failed to open for writing for "(error 0: the operation completed successfully).
x Failed to modify file times for: for "(error 0: the operation completed successfully).

Do you know if this is a windows OS problem or M4 problem................any ideas?
All help, ideas, gratfully received...................

Richard

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: December 01, 2015, 12:43:10 AM »

Many thanks for that...................I'll check it out tomorrow. It's quite likely that Mach4 was not installed with admin. My original computer died a few weeks back and a second spare computer was temporarily employed. Licensing had to be changed of course, then the existing computer hardware was completed and put into service - new licensing required again..........so lots of messing around to get to the present point in time.

Thanks again will advise success.

Richard

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M06 not working

« on: November 30, 2015, 06:47:31 PM »

Hi blockhead

file attached

thanks for responding

Richard

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Mach4 General Discussion / M06 not working

« on: November 29, 2015, 10:39:15 PM »

M06 doesn't halt program and stop for the tool to be changed.......................M06 command is basically ignored by M4, when Gcode is run. (M01 operates OK).
Also The tool Change LED in the prog run window never illuminates.

Interestingly the above applies to 3 different computers, M4: Version 4.2.0.2803 -  2 unlicensed computers (Demo) running the simulator (Win10 X64)  and my licensed workshop Machine OS XP SP3 with parallel port and Darwin.
 A M6 macro is installed in Macros under the machine Profile - (all machines).

 I can see no reason for the command to be ignored - as far as I can tell the M06 Lua code runs OK, (but I'm very much a learner with this)...............the other thought  perhaps  the Mach4 configuration is not setup correctly - which could be the case, as no one else seems to having the same problem.
  I'm totally at a loss as to what to try next!.

Their is a tool change option in the output Tab of  M4 config - is this meant to be set somehow (I have tried all sorts of combinations but with nil result so far.
Does anyone know what is wrong and/or what the fix might be? (Mach3, M06 stop and  tool change works fine).

Thanks for any advice/help
Richard 

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Wizard does not recognise License

« on: June 08, 2013, 06:51:01 PM »

Hi Ron

Problem solved - my fault. I should have known that if it's not a finger problem then the next on the list is the brain..............!

Like many, I have two identical computers here - one inside the house in the warm, that gets used as a general workhorse and design work machine etc, the other in the cold workshop. So I can confirm that trying to use the license on the wrong machine doesn't work and the copy protection scheme implemented for MW4 certainly does................!.

No excuses on my part, other than since Winter has arrived here, I haven't been out to the licensed machine. So sorry about any inconvenience caused. Talk about chasing shadows.

Thanks for your help

regs
Richard

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Newfangled Mill Wizard / Re: Wizard does not recognise License

« on: June 07, 2013, 10:51:15 PM »

I have no idea what is going on..............initially I installed the new version directly on the previous working version. Nothing else changed at that point. When the licensing didn't work I thought an uninstall must have been necessary - which I did, but I seem to recall the license remained in place. The new install of course has not worked. I've since tried re installing the first version 1.0.2. The install runs only in demo mode and the license now no longer works that version either................!.
 Have since reinstalled version 1.0.6.
 Computer is running win7,  64bit.
 Can you confirm where the license file should be residing on this system.................I've since tried numerous locations, in case it's a windows file protection "funny" but no luck.
Apart from having Scott check the license issued against the computer ID again I don't quite know what to do.

Any thoughts?