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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touch Plate Problem
« on: July 20, 2019, 10:48:55 AM »
Thanks to everyone of you guys. I just got back in town last night and will go out and do some work.
Thanks again

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touch Plate Problem
« on: July 13, 2019, 12:04:20 PM »
This is the problems with newbies, we never give all the information in our questions.
The limit switches and home switches our these "uxcell 4mm Inductive Proximity Sensor Switch Detector NPN NC DC 5-30V 200mA 3-Wire SN04-N2" .  They act as limit and home switches and no matter how I try I can't wire them in series. (I think they can't;  Ha)

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General Mach Discussion / Touch Plate Problem
« on: July 13, 2019, 10:53:29 AM »
I finally got all Homing and Limit switches wired and they work beautifully but now the problem is I can't get my touch off plate to work anymore. It seems that all my "Pins" are used on my breakout board. Is there a way to work around this problem?
By the way I'd like to thank all you guys that help us with our problems. You put a lot of time and effort into helping  and sometimes with
out even getting a thank you (I'm guilty of that). I see on most of the problems that is presented on this forum, hundreds of people read the
problems and your answers to them. Believe me when I say "You guys are Greatly Appreciated" There are a lot of newbies like me that are
getting into CNC's with out having a Background in CNC'n or any type of knowledge about  them and it is daunting and confusing.
You guys that help are Bright Stars in the Night.
Thank You

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bad Circles
« on: April 12, 2019, 09:24:05 PM »
Thanks, never thought of that but will check it out tomorrow morning

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bad Circles
« on: April 12, 2019, 08:09:21 PM »
Hi; Thanks to All for your help. My ball screw was misaligned by .2mm, got that fixed. Can jog X & Y axis at 300 inches/minuets and no trouble with stalling or binding but when I cut circles it slows down to almost stopping (programmed at 100 inches/minuets. Checked CV and everything else that I could read about and nothing seems to help. Here's something strange, using Aspire 9 I did 8 circles to cut out (ran it above work surface) but on my display mode in Mach3 it is show the  circles are egg shaped. It's a legal copy of Mach3 and Aspire. any ideas.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bad Circles
« on: March 31, 2019, 03:31:23 PM »
 Thanks for your help.  I'm running Mach3 on a dedicated XP computer  with 4gb ram and a 3.2ghtz processor, it's not on the internet. I ran the CPU processor while running the circle cutting file and all it showed was a maximum 2% usage during the whole run. The Y-axis is a RM2005 ball screw being powered by a nema 34, 1600oz stepper motor. Now when I cut squares, rectangles or anything else besides circles it cuts within .01 inches of the designed size. This is more than adequate for my needs since 99% of my work is in wood products. I run my files at 100ipm but slowed it down to 50ipm to test the circle cutting file and it did not help.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Bad Circles
« on: March 31, 2019, 12:25:06 PM »
Y-axis stalls when cutting circles but not when cutting squares. I'm using Vectric Aspire software. Vectric Aspire kind of blames Mach3 for the problem. Anything to that?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motors won't turn
« on: August 15, 2011, 08:33:13 PM »
Hi guys; I got it fixed. I wiped the hard drive, reinstalled xp pro, reinstalled the older Mach3 version and now it works. Hood! I wiped the hard drive before I read your reply! Sorry. I should have had enough since to do that and save a copy for future reference but I was so frustrated after spending the whole weekend working on the machine. I am still at a loss as to why the newer version of Mach3 would not work. The computer that I'm using is dedicated to the Mach3 software and no other programs has been put on it.
I'd like to thank everybody for their help and I'm sure I'll be using you guys again and hope that you'll bear with me as I get further along with my machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Motors won't turn
« on: August 14, 2011, 02:59:32 PM »
Sirs; after building my BlackToe 2 x 4 and installing Mach3 Release 2.63; I used the videos
on Mach3 Website to configure my setting and everything was working fine. Today I downloaded the new Mach3 R3.043.022 version and now I can't get the motors to turn/run.
They won't move using the key board or by running a gcode program. I configured the newer version with the same setting as the older version. (I made copies of the setting to follow.
Can anyone help me? Let me tell you this first! I am a total newbie, when I purchased the unit I had no experience at all with a cnc router. I am now studying Autodesk Inventor Pro and AutoCAD, reading everything about Mach3 that I can find and using a study Book named "The CNC Workshop by Frank Nanfara. Folks my brain is about fried, so please be gentle and please help. I tested all the port pins and the other hardware and they all specked
out. I loaded the Road Runner gcode and it ran fine on the screen but the motors still aren't turning. I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks
Larry

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