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SmoothStepper USB / Homing with shutle pro

« on: October 16, 2010, 06:06:58 AM »

I hade a MACH 3 installation with shutle pro and on that I had  ref al button , the machine homed perfectly every time, al axles at the same time and backs of switches as it should.
The ref. button on mach made the same but  one axle at time.
 Now i have installed Smooth stepper and the homing is not working. When I use ref al on Shulte only Z go to zero but it´s not backing off the switch.
Ref al in mach is homing but not backing of, and it runs against the X homing’s switches and  after a stop it starts to go wrong way , I get a message that  the homing switch is activated, yes it is at the program is not backing of the switch
it seems that there have to be some problems the programs running together.
Mi switches are activate when hit and grounded then, can that be a problem??
Thanks for advice
Best regards
Tomas

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper problem when spindle is on

« on: October 12, 2010, 03:43:25 PM »

I have grounded the Smooth stepper card to PC chassi and  it´s working fine now.
THANKS!!!! For all your help on this!!

Best regards
Tomas

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper problem when spindle is on

« on: October 12, 2010, 01:31:36 PM »

Thanks all! I will test the grounding first. I will let you know the result.
Best regards
Tomas

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SmoothStepper USB / Smoothstepper problem when spindle is on

« on: October 12, 2010, 04:01:01 AM »

HI all
I have brought a Smooth stepper as I had problems some time with stop on X axis when mashining , as I use 2 stepper motors on X and both stops  I believe that its  Mach that’s make that problem. This config. have been running fine on parallel port.
I put in the smooth stepper and it´s running ok, but when I star spindle , I have one Chinese water cold with inverter, the Mach stops, I have restart computer in order to get it running again but its stops as fast as the spindle is switch on , I switch on the spindle manually.
I have breakout board but it´s not used for steppers as it won’t work with mi Gekodrives.
I have installed the smooth stepper inside mi PC with the connections on back as regular PLT port.
I use USB 5V for the smooth stepper and I have not grounded the smooth stepper.
The inverter is installed together with gekos, breakout board inside second PC cabinet.
Have anybody similar problem??.

THANKS I ADVANCE for any input.

Best regards Tomas