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General Mach Discussion / Re: OK. Now What? Mach2 question

« on: September 22, 2007, 05:53:16 PM »

OK. That was no help at all. Goose egg on mach3.Even after dumping it drivers and all and reinstalling. In mach 2 ,However,The motors did smooth out at @ 10000 units with everything pegged to the max. Although they were very erratic, still.
Is there an optimum cable length for the motor cables? Could I be losing signal in mach 2 because of overly long cables?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: OK. Now What? Mach2 question

« on: September 19, 2007, 05:22:11 PM »

It's a new setup. I'm running the Mach2 demo. I'll try running the Mach3 demo and see if that helps. Will there be a conflict between the two drivers? Or should I just delete the Mach 2 driver altogether?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: OK. Now What? Mach2 question

« on: September 18, 2007, 09:43:51 PM »

Will that solve the problem?

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General Mach Discussion / OK. Now What? Mach2 question

« on: September 17, 2007, 09:19:07 PM »

Hmmmmmm. I've gotten Mach 2 to fire up the motors, but they don't seem to want to turn. Just vibrate.A lot. I'm certain I have them wired in right. So there must be something in Mach2 I'm not doing right. Tuning the motors Up or Down seems to have no effect. When I go to jog them, the crosshairs make BIG moves. BTW the motors aren't hooked up to anything at the moment.
Here is the setup;
Dell Optiplex GX 110 1100mhz
Campbel Designs breakout board
Gecko 201s x 3
Power supply 38V@10A
Mach2
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recycled 866 Dual-Proc P3 server not up to running Mach???

« on: May 29, 2006, 07:39:58 PM »

Hmmm. I basically have the same setup, 1.1G Dell with 256K Ram and Window 2000 Professional NT and I can't get anywhere. All I'm trying to do right now is run the motors to check out the system and I'm having no luck at all. The diagnostics screen says I'm getting better than 25000 pulses. The nerve wracking part is that it runs on my 2.2G Dell. But that's my main computer.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bit for drilling soft aluminum

« on: May 27, 2006, 12:12:59 PM »

Use a 'screw machine' length high helix drill. Run it very fast(SS) with a moderate feed(don't crowd the drill). And as said before use a good quality coolant. Failing having a water soluble coolant handy, WD40 works well.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recycled 866 Dual-Proc P3 server not up to running Mach???

« on: May 25, 2006, 04:40:10 PM »

Is there any way to lower the pulse rate? The reason I ask is because I have a 1.1G Dell 256K ram and it won't run my steppers. My 2.2 G Dell has no problem. 1G was recommended as a minimum.

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General Mach Discussion / Just starting out.

« on: April 08, 2006, 11:45:34 AM »

I'm a complete newb at this so please bear with me.
I doenloaded the free demo because I wanted to test my hardware. Is there a way I can just the software to test my motors?  I dont have any limit or home switches installed yet.The motors aren't mounted either. Thi is for an X/Y table for a plasma cutter.
thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lathe turret toolchanger

« on: April 07, 2006, 02:56:55 PM »

I'm new here so please excuse my impertanance. I think a very easy and effective indexing system is a 'geneva' system.Lockup can easily be achieved by a solinoid driven tapered pin.