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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys generates unsolicited jog

« on: November 20, 2011, 11:53:06 AM »

Hi Arturo,
Thanks for checking back; I was out of town last week.  I deactivated all of the pokeys functions as well as all mach3 triggers and inputs and still got the jogging behavior.  So I decided to start over. After reinstalling Mach and all pokeys software and creating a new profile from scratch, everything is working perfectly.  Although I could not find it, the problem must have been on my end, and your hardware is working well.  Sorry to have bothered you with it...darn if I know where it was getting that input.

Anyhow, my new control box is working great!

Scott

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys generates unsolicited jog

« on: November 16, 2011, 12:36:40 AM »

Hi Arturo,
Thanks for the response.

These pins are accessed by an M23 input board attached to port 2 of the motherboard (I expanded the MPG10 and added several more buttons).

Using the Pokeys software, I monitor all output/input pins and find no evidence for a short or unexpected crosstalk between pins.  When I push the appropriate buttons I see them (and only them) trigger in the pokeys IO monitor.  There is nothing apparently wrong at this stage.

In Mach, I have removed ALL brains from the brains folder and restarted mach.  There are no brains running when I get this behavior. I have not tried to deactivate the OEM triggers, but I will try that tomorrow.  However, I am sure that none of these are currently mapped to the pokeys pins 10 and 11.

Nevertheless, these pins activate the jog and they only do so if the pokeys plug in is activated.  Note again that I have disabled most of the options in the plug-in but still get the behavior.

Somehow I need to track down how the jog could be activated by the plug in but in the absence of brains.

Scott

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys generates unsolicited jog

« on: November 14, 2011, 12:23:31 PM »

Oops again. 
I don't have the firmware number with me, but I just upgraded it last night.  Actually, it had the latest firmware, but I downloaded it and reinstalled anyhow.  So it is up to date.

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys generates unsolicited jog

« on: November 14, 2011, 12:22:27 PM »

Sorry.

Pokeys56U
Software: 3.0.12
Mach Plugin: 10.6.4
Mach version: R3.043.022

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PoKeys / Pokeys generates unsolicited jog

« on: November 14, 2011, 01:18:03 AM »

Hi Everyone,
I have just completed putting together a somewhat large control panel using pokeys and several of the boards from CNC4PC (motherboard--M2R4 I believe, output, lcd, relay).  I have download the latest Mach3 release, as well as the latest plug-in and pokeys software.  I am using nearly all the pins, and 48 or so of them are working as expected, so I am confident that I understand the software and interfact. I am, however, having a very strange and frustrating problem with two of them: pins 10 and 11.

I have these set up as standard digital inputs.  The strange behavior is that whenever pin 10 is brought high and the jog mode is set to continuous or step, then the x axis begins to jog-left.  When pin 11 is brought high then the x-axis begins to jog-right. I have not, to my knowledge, in any way associated these pins with this behavior. Furthermore, I have all brains removed, and this problem occurs even if I uncheck all options on the pokeys config screen (so that I am not mapping pins to LEDs, etc, I also uncheck encoders, as well as matrix keyboard, etc). The behavior stops if I disable the pokeys plug-in.  

I would apppreciate any advice into either what might be going on or how to track it down.  I really have no idea how to track the pokeys signal in mach to figure out why the jog is clicking on.

I hope that I was clear in my description, but if there is any other information that would be helpful, please let me know.

Thanks,
Scott