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General Mach Discussion / Re: Random external stops and FIFO empty error- already tried debounce settings

« on: September 03, 2013, 07:41:48 PM »

Watch dog off gave the longest run the machine has had in ages. He plans to do a 3 hour plus run in the morning. If this doesn't pan out then I will learn more about the Hicon side and figure out what their version of debounce is and find out if the FIFO error is really an issue. Thanks for the help so far.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Random external stops and FIFO empty error- already tried debounce settings

« on: September 03, 2013, 06:45:37 AM »

Will stop into the shop on the way to work and take a look at the watchdog setting. Will turn it off and have him run a long project to test. We cant get more than about 1.5 hours out of it. Usually its less than 30 minutes. Not bad for $100K


Everything in the control box is plugged into a board that says Hicon on it. So external?

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General Mach Discussion / Random external stops and FIFO empty error- already tried debounce settings

« on: September 02, 2013, 04:47:49 PM »

Helping a friend debug his waterjet running Mach3. We get random external e stop requested messages resulting in the machine shutting down. I also see FIFO empty right before it crashes. Have gone around the control console, waterjet table and pump/intensifier and tightened all wires and connections I can find that are loose. Tapped the PLC on the pump/intensifier and find the error log set to on but nothing is written to it. It is a commercial turnkey package that was installed and preconfigured by the manufacturer. Manufacturer support has been less than impressive.

Tried the following in Mach3:
Set debounce from 3 to 2000 with no change.
Set the look ahead to 10 from 100 thinking it might be looking to far forward in the buffer.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.