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Galil / dmc 4060 0-10v spindle mach 4

« on: September 26, 2021, 10:38:03 PM »

hey guys

i am currently in the process of doing a upgrade to my CNC router which use a galil dmc 4060 on mach 4 but i am trying to get my spindle to work using 0-10v

i have set the spindle to the E axis and i am able to get it to enable and disable the spindle on pin 7 but i have been unable to figure out how to get the galil to do the 0-10v output
am i missing something?

thanks for your guys help

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / atc spindle recommendations

« on: June 08, 2020, 05:07:15 AM »

hello

im planing on upgrading my current 4kw er20 collect spindle to a atc spindle is there any brands or types you guys would recommend or ones i should stay away from also this is a more heavy duty machine that i plan on doing stainless steel on but i only also have 240v single phase

thanks for your help

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Galil / encoder feed back

« on: June 07, 2020, 12:24:24 AM »

hello

im currently rewiring my cnc router which uses a galil 4060 and closed loop servo motors,

have any of you guys tried to "parallel up" the motor encoder to its drive and to the galil dmc at the same time so mach4 gets a encoder input or should i just buy some extra encoders and put them on the other ends of the ball screw

thanks for your help and feed back 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mach 4 machine coordinates not showing

« on: January 20, 2020, 12:37:50 AM »

hi

so i install the GDK only a few weeks ago but im not sure about gcaps as how do i tell if its working correctly as im not finding much information on it

thanks for your help 

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Mach4 General Discussion / mach 4 machine coordinates not showing

« on: January 18, 2020, 12:29:26 AM »

hi

so for some reason when i move my machine around via jogging none of the coordinates change  all they do is flash and switch between positive and negative and might jump to like 0.003mm and thats it, im using a galil 4060 and arunning the latest plugin 

thanks for your help

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mach 4 reverse motor direction

« on: January 07, 2020, 04:09:34 AM »

hi

so success after i install the gpk and a computer restart everything is working now and i can now reverse the motors too

i have noticed there is a little instability mach 4 did crash a few times though

but thanks for the help can finally get this machine going 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mach 4 reverse motor direction

« on: January 07, 2020, 01:37:26 AM »

hi so i tried your plugin, i first uninstalled mach 4 and then reinstalled it, then installed your plugin which turns out is a different version to the one on the galil plugin page that i was currently using but it then it wouldn't pick up my controller so i rolled it back to the website version and then was able to pick up the controller (galil dmc 4080) so i tried reinstalling your plugin again and still wouldn't pick up the controller so not sure why that is, also i did buy the plugin as like i said on my first post it did work but the  the x axis was in reverse. 


and btw the dog never ate my home work i just never did it 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mach 4 reverse motor direction

« on: January 06, 2020, 09:04:25 PM »

Ok I'll reinstall the plugin then see if that makes a difference

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Mach4 General Discussion / mach 4 reverse motor direction

« on: January 06, 2020, 01:12:13 PM »

hello

i have been trying to reverse the direction of my x axis which has two slaved motors both go the same direction but i need to reverse it and i tried doing that through the galil plugin control and the motor tab in control but nothing seems to change like i tried the other axis and nothing.

thanks for you help

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mach 4 testing limits and home switches inputs

« on: January 04, 2020, 10:21:28 PM »

Mach4 has a similar page, just look two tabs to the right of Program Run on the second line of tabs on the main screen. It is labeled "Machine Diagnostics"

thank you steve i turns out i had a different screen set on now i see the tab but again thank you very much time to setup these limits