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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 26, 2016, 11:40:21 AM »

Ok, so I have tried Mach3 demo, just set it up for the spindle as the 107 manual suggests, and the spindle works! It works wonderfully! So are there any thoughts why it wont run on Mach4? I don't really want to have to buy Mach3 as well.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 26, 2016, 02:29:28 AM »

First thing to do when I get home, fingers crossed

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 26, 2016, 01:13:51 AM »

Well that will be extremely helpful. Hopefully it isn't too far away...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 25, 2016, 06:45:51 PM »

How so?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 25, 2016, 04:01:53 PM »

Thanks for all your help Bob, I have posted on their forums and will report back if there is any news. I am of course still open for help from this page if there are any other ideas.

Thanks again

Joe

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 25, 2016, 01:14:11 PM »

Ok, so I have tried your suggestions and it would appear to have made it worse. I now cannot move the motors at all, and the pins do not change when a gcode is entered for the spindle, only when the CW button is clicked. I have a log attached of the spindle code running. I have attached the new .INI and profile.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 24, 2016, 03:12:21 AM »

Old lathe profile

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 24, 2016, 03:11:48 AM »

Yes the spindle speeds are all set, according to my machine, just as Daz instructed.

Bob, Yes I measured the voltages on the Aout and Agnd termals as you suggested, and due to the lack of control I did use the test mode. Unfortunately at the time I only tried spindle on and off for the J6 "16" part, I will try again later with different "S" commands.

I did originally have the dip switch 4 "down" however I was trying different things ( Before I posted here) to get the system working, and after reading the manual I had a thought that is may be causing an issue, it obviously wasn't. Of course I was just trying different things at the time.

I have attached the information requested for the new mill profile I created as a trial last night. I have also included the machine.ini file for the original lathe profile.

Thank-you again for all your help, this is an area I am very new to...

Joe

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 23, 2016, 06:31:47 PM »

Well I have tried the setting s that Daz has suggested and on the new profile it doesn't start the spindle at all. On the old lathe one it started it but couldn't speed it up or slow down... It is starting to get very odd and even more confusing...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 with ESS and PMDX126/107 speed control issues.

« on: February 23, 2016, 04:09:16 PM »

Ok, so I tried an idea. I loaded the mach4mill profile and was able to setup the OB1 on the spindle, excellent. Everything works, better than on the lathe profile I might add. However the spindle is still not working. I cannot even get it to turn now. The relay clicks on and off when I hit an M03 code (not for M04) and the lights switch (see attached). The pmdx107 test mode works and the voltages show around 8.4v (2300rpm) at max, 2.3v at 700 RPM. As Bob recommended I tried the voltages on pin 16 and the pc_gnd and it dropped from 4.8v to 0v as hoped for. Any thoughts?