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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 14, 2010, 04:04:11 AM »

I'll wait for the controler to come back and then take some pict of the boards.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 13, 2010, 05:28:55 AM »

On page 5 on the bottom there is a data transport protocol.
Byte 0 is ID
Byte 1-8 is CAN data protocol
Byte 9 is verifier

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 13, 2010, 05:10:34 AM »

I do enought to be able to read this manual. Is there any particular thing I should be looking for or just Step/Dir?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 13, 2010, 04:27:26 AM »

No, no wiring diagram.
Where do I look for Step/Dir?
I'll just have to wait for the control box to come back.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 13, 2010, 03:12:23 AM »

and final 3 pages

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 13, 2010, 03:11:18 AM »

ok here it is
first 4 pages

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 13, 2010, 03:09:44 AM »

Here is the manual, unfortunately in german. The technical stuff is international anyway, SPS means PLC,...
If anything can be worked out from the manual I'd be happy.
Hopefully the controller box comes back from germany next week and I'll dig into it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: January 11, 2010, 08:08:02 AM »

HI
I'm new to the forum. I like a technical chalenge so I decided to build a cnc mill. It can do approx 1250x700x340mm piece (4.11x2.3x1.1ft), mainly wood and foam (or soft metal like alu or bras, but I do not use it much, just some letters and such)
Lately the original controller (bought off the shelf) box failed and I started to look for options. That's how I found Mach3 on the web.
Already got great help from the members.
As per their suggestions and hopefully further guidance, I'll try to convert the controller box to try Mach3. If all goes well (read:if I do not do something stupid with the electronics) hope to start milling again soon.

Otherwise I am in naval architecture and yacht design. I do mostly aluminium and steel boat plans.

So thanks a lot for this usefull forum.
Ales

 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 11, 2010, 07:28:57 AM »

Tech docs are in german and I only have hardcopy. I'll make some scans.
I'll make pictures when I get the controller back.
As I remember the boards are stacked one above the other so I'll need to take it apart to make pictures of all the boards. At the same time I'll see where the end switches connections go. In my case the same RS232 cable goes to each of the motor and two wires of each cable are used for the end switch.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: very technical question for mach3 developers

« on: January 11, 2010, 03:41:47 AM »

I hope this works.