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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plugged in to machine........New problem.

« on: August 13, 2009, 09:26:59 AM »

had movement last night, and with the help of Chip, smoothed the motors out a bit.  Still running at a slow feed rate, but I will try to address that tonight.

Thanks again, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plugged in to machine........New problem.

« on: August 11, 2009, 03:56:43 PM »

Thanks for the help, Chip. 

Just so anyone else can possibly benefit from this thread, It turned out that my aluminum standoffs were of a large enough diameter that they were grounding the 5v board voltage to the chasis.   I've yet to fix the problem, but I intend to use some hdpe for standoffs instead.  Another grounding issue was one of the RCA jacks that I was using grounded to the chasis as well.  That should also be easily remedied.

Thanks,
Rooney

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plugged in to machine........New problem.

« on: August 10, 2009, 08:52:48 AM »

Thanks Chip,

Was gonna edit, but you beat me to it

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General Mach Discussion / Plugged in to machine........New problem.

« on: August 09, 2009, 09:02:17 PM »

Well, I decided to start a new thread.  I'm coming fresh off of this one.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12134.0.html

I talked to Chip on the phone, (Thanks Chip) and decided that I should pluyg the thing in and go for a try .

The first thing I noticed is that none of my limits, estop, or homes were lit under the diagnostics tab.  Good right?  So, I decided that I should trigger the limits and see that they throw me into an emergency state.  They do not.  With the parallel unplugged they do.  Everything is lit.  Why would they not light up?  Furthermore, there is no motor movement, but they are llocked and cannot be turned by hand.

This is the package I have:
http://www.kelinginc.net/ThreeXCNCPackage2.html

Like I said the wierd thing is that when unplugging the parallel cable from the control box, my switches all light up on the diagnostics tab.  So, they are grounding somewhere?   That being said, should my motors not be turning?

Thanks in Advance.
Rooney

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does this screenshot mean that pins 12 & 13 are fried on my PC??

« on: August 08, 2009, 11:26:36 AM »

Thanks Chip,
I have one weding and two receptions today, so I downloaded the software and will try tonight.

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does this screenshot mean that pins 12 & 13 are fried on my PC??

« on: August 07, 2009, 11:06:21 PM »

I tired changing the accelleration and ther was no result.  The voltage still stays at 5v.  I get 5v on both step and dir.  On step though, I do have to set to check in motor outputs in order to get any results.   Then, to get it to not read 5v, I have to uncheck it, apply, reset, and jog again in order to go back to 0v.     Just letting off the button will not return me to 0v.  Dir give 5v until I reverse the jog to the other direction.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does this screenshot mean that pins 12 & 13 are fried on my PC??

« on: August 07, 2009, 01:50:46 PM »

Thanks Hood,

I will try this stuff out tonight.

Rooney

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does this screenshot mean that pins 12 & 13 are fried on my PC??

« on: August 07, 2009, 12:19:45 PM »

So, if I have step set to low in order to get a reading, should dir be set to low as well?  Like I said, set active high it is giving a negative value.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does this screenshot mean that pins 12 & 13 are fried on my PC??

« on: August 07, 2009, 09:55:10 AM »

The step pins would jump to 5v from 0v (active low) when I initially pressed the jog.  But then they would never drop back to 0v after releasing the jog button.  Is that because nothing is hooked up to the dir pin for that motor?  I never set the dir pins to active low, but did get a reading when the jog button is pushed.  However the reading was from 0v to a negative value.  

If I set one pin on a motor (step) to active low, does the other (dir) need to be set active low as well in order for it to work properly?

Edit: In the red highlighted area, I should say that it does not return to 0v when I stop jogging.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does this screenshot mean that pins 12 & 13 are fried on my PC??

« on: August 06, 2009, 08:31:53 PM »

Oh..Also, under that port in device manager, I enabled plug and play.  Maybe that helped too?  I don't know.

Thanks