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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Limit Switch Settings

« on: October 16, 2019, 05:40:33 PM »

Thank you for the reply.

Everyhing works as it should now but your comment about the broken wire was what I was worried about. I might rewire so, as you say, if the wire is broken the corresponding light will illunimate in the dianostics and it will reduce the chance of an accident.

Originally I had them wired NC and somehow managed to convince myself I had it the wrong way around so changed them!

Thanks again.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Limit Switch Settings

« on: October 16, 2019, 07:53:16 AM »

I'm using an individual switch at each position wired to an individaul input, 1 wire to the input one wire to the input ground, they are not wired in parrell or series.

I am using Omron SS-5GL2  (https://au.mouser.com/ProductDetail/653-SS-5GL2) switches and they are wired Normally Open.

Hope that helps

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Limit Switch Settings

« on: October 16, 2019, 05:57:33 AM »

Just to be clear, I wanted to know whether the switches should be setup so the settings in the Mach 4 inputs are Active Low with a X, rather than Active Low with a tick, as I have?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Limit Switch Settings

« on: October 16, 2019, 01:36:56 AM »

I just wanted to check that I have my Limit/Home switches configured correctly. The way I have installed the switches I have to have the setting in Mach 4 as shown in the attached images.

Is this correct or have I got the switches setup incorrectly?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Rebuild Problem

« on: February 14, 2018, 05:25:51 AM »

Thanks, I'll remember that for the future, I've reconfigered eberything now just need to do a bit of testing.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Rebuild Problem

« on: February 12, 2018, 04:18:34 AM »

Thanks for the help gents, it seems my main problem stems from my controller board not Mach4. I have managed to retrieve all of the Profiles and the wx4.set file I was using but it's not helping because the controller board has updated their Plugin & firmware (which I installed before realising) and they say about their latest release.

"WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND UPDATING OLDER PLUGIN INSTALLS TO THIS VERSION AND RE-CREATE YOUR PROFILES STARTING FROM THE NEW COPIES OF SUPPLIED SAMPLES."

This in effect means you have to recreate the screen set as well, this time I have named it DQwx4.set so I will know for sure which one I'm using:).

Turns out I was more organised than I remembered and saved all of my config setting in a spreadsheet, they may not be the most upto date but close enough.

Thanks for the help.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Rebuild Problem

« on: February 11, 2018, 03:44:46 AM »

Hi

"on your old PC what screenset were you using in DQ Working profile?" I was using wx4.set but an older version than one that can with the new download.

"Any changes like motor assignments and so on get stored in your profile." Everything appears in order but I will have to go through in detail to make doubly sure.

I originally thought the screen changes I made were stored in the Profile. I managed to retrieve the original wx4.set file from the old hard drive which still works fine. When I put the original wx4.set file in place of the new one thats when I got the error messages show in my first post.

"The correct thing to do is in the Screenset folder of Mach4 make a copy of wx4.set and rename it to something unique like MYwx4.set. Use that personalized
screenset in your profile and when you update Mach it will not be overwritten." I will remember that but based on this experience it may not help.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Rebuild Problem

« on: February 10, 2018, 10:45:54 PM »

HI

The computer running my DIY CNC died yesterday but I have managed to access the data on the C drive, and once that was done I thought it would be simple to get things going on a new (old really ) computer, but I was wrong!

I downloaded Mach4 and installed it on the new computer, I then downloaded the PMDX 424 plugin and installed it. I them retrieved my modified Profiles and installed them into the Profiles folder. I updated the PMDX firmware as well.

When I opened my "DQ Working" profile the screen that loaded was not my old screen, all of the changes I had made were gone. The machine configuration settings look ok. I could get the spindle to turn on but I could not get any of the axis's to move, the motors are not enabling when the Enable button is toggled, and it looks like the Limit switches are not working as well!!

I eventually retrieved the old wx4.set file and replaced the new wx4.set file with the old one, the correct screen layout loaded but when it loads I get the warnings shown in the attached. Just like with the new wx4.set file nothing but the Spindle works.

Does this mean I have to rebuild my old profiles (4 off) from scratch while using the latest wx4.set file?

Any thoughts as to why the loaded configuration doesn't work?
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Acceleration Settings

« on: December 04, 2017, 06:13:03 AM »

I now see what you mean, I have downloaded the G-Wizard trial and from what I can tell so far you need a spindle that turns at light speed to get the SFM thats recommended

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Just a Little bit bigger :)

« on: December 04, 2017, 06:10:57 AM »

Only seems to work with 2D Contour setting but thats better than nothing, I'll run a cut tomorrow and see how she goes.