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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/IPS MACH4 "Counts per unit"/DRO Problem

« on: July 25, 2017, 09:55:52 AM »

The M542 stepper drivers I'm connecting at the moment can handle pulse frequency between 0 and 300khz. Pulse width not less than  1.5us. I'm not certain what the csmio ips puts out.

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/IPS MACH4 "Counts per unit"/DRO Problem

« on: July 20, 2017, 11:14:04 PM »

Yes I agree,  and entering the same values as in pokeys was the very first thing I did. Csmio pulse duration is %50, not sure if or how that can be changed. It might be a while before i get a chance to take a picture of the cabinet, but i did consider emi and so tried everything with the unit removed from the cabinet and bare essentials powered up. I went away from pokeys because the csmio was easier to interface with 24v servo drivers etc. Pokeys did work well with the non industrial grade stuff, and their tech support and customer service is awesome! CS labs has been useless and frustrating to deal with.

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/IPS MACH4 "Counts per unit"/DRO Problem

« on: July 20, 2017, 02:17:17 PM »

Originally when I was setting up the CSMIO in mach I did enter all the same values I had with the pokeyes, but it didn't work correctly.  The machine would physically move 1.6 times farther than it was supposed to.

That's not right then. The question now is, which one was set correctly? How did you determine the steps per originally? Show me the math.

When you say "thats not right",  do you mean that not cycling the power is what I,m doing wrong?

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/IPS MACH4 "Counts per unit"/DRO Problem

« on: July 19, 2017, 12:14:32 PM »

Leadscrew = 4mm/rotation, driver set to 6400 ppr with 1.8 deg stepper. 6400/4= 1600 steps/1mm

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CS-Lab / Re: CSMIO/IPS MACH4 "Counts per unit"/DRO Problem

« on: July 17, 2017, 11:13:14 PM »

No I haven't  been doing the cycling after making adjustments. I wasn't aware that that was required. Originally when I was setting up the CSMIO in mach I did enter all the same values I had with the pokeyes, but it didn't work correctly.  The machine would physically move 1.6 times farther than it was supposed to.

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CS-Lab / CSMIO/IPS MACH4 "Counts per unit"/DRO Problem

« on: July 16, 2017, 05:16:10 PM »

My problem is with the motor tuning. I physically jog the machine 100mm and the DRO in Mach4 will show 160mm for example. Normally this could easily be corrected by adjusting the "counts per unit" under motor tuning in Mach4, but unfortunately that has no effect! Any value entered in "Counts per unit" is completely ignored. I have been running my machine with a pokeys57cnc controller until now and have never had this problem before. CS-Labs support has been useless at best. What seems to be the problem here?