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Galil / Re: camsoft conversion

« on: February 23, 2013, 08:08:49 AM »

Jorge, the opto22 was the easiest to setup. I used a 24 relay board. It left me plenty of flex ability and room for expansion.
Steve

Hello Steve.

I also have that configuration and like to move it to Mach3 from camsoft, I think that there is no problem configuring the galil pluging but I am wondering if is there any alternative for the opto22 relay board.

Did you finally configure the galil with the opto22?

thanks,

Jorge B.
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do any of the modbus or othe i/o card you mentioned have the ability to run the opto22 g4bp24 relay boards??
thats what i have wired.

Hello Steve.

I also have that configuration and like to move it to Mach3 from camsoft, I think that there is no problem configuring the galil pluging but I am wondering if is there any alternative for the opto22 relay board.

Did you finally configure the galil with the opto22?

thanks,

Jorge B.

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: April 06, 2011, 01:30:54 AM »

come to think of it, one of the uncertain areas i have.. does anybody know how the bios should be set as far as power management control? i get two choices neither which is off.
im thinking if the pci bus slows down or powers off their could be trouble. but i havnt seen any discussion about it so it may not matter.
steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: April 06, 2011, 01:25:00 AM »

im still having the same stoppage issues as well. i have replaced the computer with a with a new one containing a different brand processor and new ram. this time i used vista stripped to the bone.
i've tried setting the software priority higher in the op system as someone suggested. but it remains operationally the same as it has been, locking up randomly. the debug routine that runs in the background as a diagnostic tool always seem to show my problem occurring whenever a very specific memory address is used. don't know if its in use from other plug-ins (galil, and contec) or the op system.
steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 30, 2011, 11:26:41 AM »

Steve,
   after trying the new plugin without success, i looked over the machine. i found the encoder position wires were shielded but not
grounded. i grounded them and tested further. i thought i had the problem beat , because the machine ran flawlessly for almost 2 hours running a 20 min program.
but sadly, the machine began to stop during the cycle randomly again. i called galil to get some info on how to check for errors logged in the control card.
Tc1,sc and a few others were mentioned, after looking  i dont see any reason why it should stop. i noticed that the wdsk program used to be able to run along side the mach software, now mach has
to be shut down before wsdk can see the control card.
  to keep it simple i used the wizzard to write a small keyway slot program, straight with no arcs. my machine even locked up during a liesurely 3ipm g1.
most frequently the machine just stops with the spindle still turning, less often the machine estops in the middle of a move, a very few times it stopped on a limit trigger(not sure which one)
i think im going to try another computer as i wanter to use a smaller form factor anyway.
is there anything i need to do to windows 7, other than the usual turning stuff off??

thanks steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 13, 2011, 03:30:36 PM »

mine says R3.042.04
steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 13, 2011, 01:29:36 PM »

i did get a 40 minute cycle to complete yesterday......followed by a 2.5 minute lockup..
steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 13, 2011, 01:24:41 PM »

when mine locks up it acts like an unregistered version of mach3, it gets to a line then just sits.....but it does go past 100 lines....
when it does lock up i hit the stop (alt-a) then hit spindle to restart spindle then cycle start and it will take off where it was at..
steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 13, 2011, 01:18:02 PM »

pentium 4 pc 3ghz
1gig ram
xp pro
nvidia gforce mx 440 video
contec pio16(pci)
galil 1842 motion controller
power scheme is set to always on
no screen saver
no anti virus
most non used features of windows turned off
no remote assistance
no remote desktop
no autoupdate

system restore point on drive c IS on

paging file is 1536 mb

hid stuff usb keyboard, usb trackball mouse,




pc running xp, everything non essential is turned off.

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 13, 2011, 01:49:37 AM »

steve,
  there is 5 or 6 grabfiles in the zip all were recorded after mach3 hung up....
hopefully you see some thing its all greek to me...
it actually took a while to get it to act up, once it did, it became frequent.

steve

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Galil / Re: unexplained stop during program

« on: January 11, 2011, 11:04:17 PM »

steve,
   will do , thanks