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General Mach Discussion / Reset-External E Stop- how to disable

« on: July 18, 2017, 08:26:52 AM »

All, I have an older machine that has an issue with spindle being started from the software. No resolve. However, we are able to run the spindle from the inverter keypad. When we try to load a program, the reset kicks automatically. Is there an E Stop disable setting in Mach 3.
My feeling is the software is detecting something thus triggering the reset.

Again, we are running the spindle from the Fuling inverter.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: One side of X axis not in sync with opposite side. Jerky movement

« on: July 18, 2017, 08:03:32 AM »

I found the issue, one of the drivers on y was bad.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: One side of X axis not in sync with opposite side. Jerky movement

« on: July 11, 2017, 04:19:11 PM »

Thanks for the reply. I don't know yet. This is the first time that this has happened.  I am going to take the coveres off and take the steppers off to see if they spin freely.   While it is on the machine and in place,  it is acting spuratic. 
I will see what is happening and write back.

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General Mach Discussion / One side of X axis not in sync with opposite side. Jerky movement

« on: July 11, 2017, 12:46:22 PM »

All, the X axis appears to be jerky. 1 side is smooth, opposite side is jerking trying to catch up. Unuseable at the moment, any ideas where to look?

Thank you
Mike

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General Mach Discussion / No Spindle Spin up

« on: July 07, 2017, 09:53:09 AM »

Good morning, We have had an old Vortex Chinese Router 4x8 running Mach3 since 2009.  No issues until last week. The computer that ran our Mach3 software failed.  I thought it was the board but looks like the hard drive. I was able to add the drive to another older machine, I was able to copy the Mach3 directory and all of its contents to a thumb drive.  I proceeded to download the newer copy of Mach3, pasted my license code and .XML files to the software.  Software starts and and I am able to control X Y and Z BUT, I do not get a spindle start up.  I have tried everything I can.  CHALLENGE: This machine manufacturer is out of business,  No support from anyone.  The Inverter is a Fuling, DZB100. We have a digital readout but we have never run the spindle from the inverter panel.,  We have not changed anything on the router itself. We only added a new PC but added an LPT card because the newer PCs did not have a LPT on it.  Based on that note, I did change the IRQ setting in Mach3 to add the address for the card.  Again, X Y and Z axis moves as expected.

I attached the xml in the event someone may be able to spot something.

Any direction you can point me in would be appreciated.  We have been down in production for 9 days now.

Mike