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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Set Ports and Pins Active High/Low with VB?

« on: July 07, 2011, 04:53:11 PM »

Aah, thanks Ian. I will try that and see if it works.

Piet

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Set Ports and Pins Active High/Low with VB?

« on: July 07, 2011, 06:53:32 AM »

Thanks Ian, but the problem is not homing, that is done, I want to use the same circuit for homing and a probe, where homing closes the circuit and probing opens the circuit. So what I want to do is set the probe input to active low for the homing macro and when probing set it active high with a macro. At the moment I do it manually but it would be nice if it was possible to do via macros.

Piet

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Set Ports and Pins Active High/Low with VB?

« on: July 06, 2011, 02:12:40 AM »

Hi

Joachim did you come right with a vbscript to change a pin from active hi to active low? I am trying to do the same but can not find any information on how to do this or macro function to do this.

There are many topics with ActivateSignal and DeActivateSignal but it is not changing the setting.

I want to use this macros to change to Active Hi when using a probe and to change back to Active Low when using the same circuit for a zeroi-ing touch plate.

Any help will be appreciated if anybody out there knows a way to do this.

Thanks

Piet

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: Huanyang VFD controller plugin

« on: June 07, 2011, 01:40:37 AM »

Hi Joemac

Here are two versions of the software controllers for the USB->RS485 (Ver F) I have written and use to control the spindles on machines I sell.

VFD Controller - EXE is a program that runs the spindle without Mach3 and Controller_VFD - DLL runs the spindle via Mach3 using the M3, M4 and M5 calls together with the S calls for speed setting "M3 S20000".

Both these programs runs spindle speeds between 6000 and 24000RPM

If you want lower than 6000RPM let me know and I will change the program for you to run at lower speeds.

Hope you find it worth the effort.

Piet

Thank you Piet, I have just downloaded the files.

Your previous post indicated no soldering needed, but as I understand in the RS485 chip is missing from my inverter. I was going to order one today but stopped and decided to ask first.

Thanks for you effort on this, I am looking forward to trying it out as soon as I have this missing chip bit sorted out.

Regards,
-Joemac

Joe, these should work without the chip soldered in. Some of my VFD has no chips and some has, but it still works. You need the USB->RS485 convertor though.

Just a note to remember that the DLL version works with a screen set I have made where the Stop and Reset buttons are calling script to stop the spindle. Without that the spindle will not stop when you press reset or stop.

Test it with the EXE version before working with DLL

Piet

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: Huanyang VFD controller plugin

« on: June 06, 2011, 07:30:19 PM »

Hi Joemac

Here are two versions of the software controllers for the USB->RS485 (Ver F) I have written and use to control the spindles on machines I sell.

VFD Controller - EXE is a program that runs the spindle without Mach3 and Controller_VFD - DLL runs the spindle via Mach3 using the M3, M4 and M5 calls together with the S calls for speed setting "M3 S20000".

Both these programs runs spindle speeds between 6000 and 24000RPM

If you want lower than 6000RPM let me know and I will change the program for you to run at lower speeds.

Hope you find it worth the effort.

Piet

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: Huanyang VFD controller plugin

« on: June 06, 2011, 02:22:06 AM »

Hi

Anybody interested in my Delphi program that runs the Huanyang VFD's without having any alterations done such as chip soldering via the RS584 - F version USB-Serial? It is not a plugin yet, it runs while MAch3 is running to control the spindle.

Let me know and I will post a link to download.

Cheers

Piet