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General Mach Discussion / Re: Losing Steps on x

« on: November 20, 2012, 08:13:33 AM »

Thanks tweakie, that helps. Do you guys think adding a wireless network card could cause issues also? I forgot that I added that also to the machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Losing Steps on x

« on: November 19, 2012, 12:46:36 PM »

I have a card at home I can try. Lets hope this works.  Any idea why this causes a problem?

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General Mach Discussion / Losing Steps on x

« on: November 19, 2012, 11:15:11 AM »

Hello, I was wondering if someone could give me a few ideas to try.  I am out of ideas for fixing this problem. Here's some background on my machine. I run a gecko540 using a parallel port. I had issues with my first machine because it didnt have a parallel port, so I had to add a card with a parallel port. The problem was that that machine only uses PCIe. All the cards that are PCIe dont work well with my geck540. So I decided to upgrade to an older machine with a parallel port.

So here is my problem. WIth the new machine, my machine loses steps to the left somewhere in the middle of cutting. I take that same gcode, and run it on my old machine (after I plug it back in) and it doesnt lose steps. So its not the gcode or the physical CNC. There has to be something wrong with the other machine. I have no idea where to start. I am using the same mach file from one machine to the other, so the settings are all exactly the same.

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help going backwards

« on: January 20, 2012, 01:08:33 PM »

You are ecorrect. Sorry about that. I tried to edit, so if anyone reads it later.

I tried changing it, and its working now. Thanks Hood.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help going backwards

« on: January 20, 2012, 08:42:32 AM »

The z is fine. Its the y or say north/south direction.  Best way to explain it, is this. IN mach you have your display screen. It shows you your table, or what it thinks your table dimensions are. So you have your z set in the front right corner, as if it was home.  It should show your work in the left corner on the display. But for me, it shows the z in the back left. When I jog the z back by hitting my keys,  the cross hairs on the display show it moves forward on the display screen. But it cant gi anywhere because I am at my limit on the front of the table.

So it thinks my workspace is in front of the Z, and not in back of the Z. hope this helps

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help going backwards

« on: January 19, 2012, 09:27:00 PM »

Even set like this, The display shows me moving forward, when the z is actually moving backwards..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help going backwards

« on: January 19, 2012, 09:12:13 PM »

its something with my limits. I set them to default, and still get the same result

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help going backwards

« on: January 19, 2012, 07:54:10 PM »

isn't the y supposed to be reversed? I followed the tutorial, and this is what happened.

So I set my machine where i want home. I set everything to zero. then I jog it to where i want the soft limits. I enter them in the page, and this is what I got.

So when I zoom out in the display, it looks like my home is in the mach left corner of my workspace. But in reality its up front.

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General Mach Discussion / Help going backwards

« on: January 19, 2012, 07:01:01 PM »

I was trying to set my soft limits, and I must have done something. Everything is backwards now. When I import g code, it tries to move forward insted of towards the back. Like it thinks my work sufrace changed. Not sure what I did. I turn off soft limits, and it still does it. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Will any PCIe card work with Mach?

« on: January 18, 2012, 10:14:58 AM »

The strange part is that with the card im using, I can get my carriages to move, but cant get my relay to work for the router.