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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 15, 2013, 01:33:06 PM »
Ok. Put a new card in a pci slot today which has 2 parralel ports. The probe pin now works as it should looking at the diagnostics page.

However when I plug the mill in the estop circuit won't clear. I got the address of the new port via device manager and put in as port 2 on the ports and pins page, unticked port 1 and ticked port 2. I also changed all the port 1 settings to port 2 in the inputs page, still no joy.

What am I missing here?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 04:38:48 PM »
I will re confirm tomorrow. But fairly certain the port ground wires terminated on the bob and Tried using those and the ground accociated with the 5v supply I started off using and had the same fault on each occasion

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 04:09:45 PM »
Thank you for the help by the way.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 04:09:28 PM »
Just the one computer and don't have a spare card. I'll have a look tomorrow at the utility you mentioned and see what that shows.

If I were to change out the parallel port for a new one (assuming thats the fault) would it be literally just plugging the cable back in and everything works as it should - ie I would not have to start retuning motors and spindles and assigning pins etc?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 03:55:31 PM »
I actually connect direct to the wire coming from the parallel port for the probe, nothing goes through the bob.

I use the ground on the bob which is common to the grounds on the port

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 03:35:32 PM »
No it does not work, again I tried it both as low and high.


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 03:25:14 PM »
Yeah I would of put it back to standard.

I did similar with the estop pin 15 and set that to probe. Operating the estop button changed the digitise status led as you would expect.


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 03:09:08 PM »
Ok XML attached.

Just to add. My set up is a denford starmill, the breakout board is the standard one. The parrallel port cable goes into the enclosure and all the unused wires (of which pin 13 is one) are just cut short.

The mill works perfectly and has done for a few years, the only change i have ever made (shortly after buying it) was to change the debounce value as i was getting erratic emergency stop actrivations. this cured it and it has worked perfectly since.

Cheers
brendan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 02:52:21 PM »
Cheers hood.

Will copy that off shortly. Tried with it active high. No light lit on digitise. Earthing/ applying 5v makes no difference again.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Input pin help
« on: April 12, 2013, 02:20:21 PM »
Not on emulation.

How do you get your XML? Sorry I'm more mechanical than computers and electronics :)

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