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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: THC hicon integra card problem

« on: July 25, 2023, 01:33:14 PM »

Hello Laurent,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This is something that should be configurable but currently is not. In our next official plugin update this will be made configurable. In the meantime I have made a temporary plugin version with the A axis included in the list of feedrate axes for THC.

https://vitalsystem.com/portal/motion/WIP%20Release-2.50.67.zip

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: issue after Mach4 4.2.0.5036 upgrade...

« on: March 27, 2023, 04:47:37 PM »

Hello Mark,

On the MPG tab in the Control window of Mach4, do you have values set for the Accel and Velocity? We have seen that prior to Mach4 v5000, having these set to 0 would still produce smooth motion, but after v5000 these need to be set properly.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Re: DSPMC 7763S

« on: December 28, 2022, 09:32:36 PM »

Hello Warren

Can you measure volts on the power supply green plug on this board.

If you are supplying only 12 volts power, analog circuit will not work.

For your servo tunning, please sure the plugin config axis windows test motion command and graph.  make sure your analog drive gain is not too high.  the analog drives take +-10v command for speed or torque.  make sure 9 to 10 volts produce the max speed or torque.  if the gain is too high on your drivers, even 1 volt will produce too much torque and you will not be able to tune the drives. 

you can test the gain by setting analog voltage to 1, 2, 3...volts and see how fast the motor is moving.  you can do this test using plugin config window system tab, there you will find button to set analog test voltage output for each DAC channel.

If the encoder polarity is reversed, that can also make it impossible to tune.  you can see the polarity behavior in the axis config tab motion graph.

hope this helps.

Thx
VSI Support

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: anti collision

« on: November 07, 2022, 03:46:05 PM »

Hello Laurent,

We aren't currently supporting this feature, but it is on the list of features to add in the future. We recommend properly configuring your Tip Voltage Anti-Dive as well as Minimum Cut Height in the ArcPRO settings table to prevent collisions with the material.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Hicon Integra 7766 (old version) Following Error issue

« on: October 06, 2022, 11:47:52 AM »

It sounds like a configuration error. We can continue our conversation through email. Please send us your Mach4 profile.

Instructions on how to package profile
1.   Open mach4 using the profile you are working with.
2.   On mach4 menu go to Help->Support->Package Current Profile
3.   Save package to desired location.
4.   Email the package as attachment.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Hicon Integra 7766 (old version) Following Error issue

« on: September 27, 2022, 02:11:44 PM »

Intermittent problems like these can be fixed by Earthing the controller.

Please connect Earth Ground to GND on J1.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Hicon Integra 7766 (old version) Following Error issue

« on: September 26, 2022, 08:50:28 PM »

Please update the firmware, mach4, and the plugin.  I believe v2.24 is many many years old.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: HiCon EC Absolute homing

« on: September 19, 2022, 05:24:54 PM »

You can enable home in place in Mach4. As shown in the attachment.

After you have homed your machine using the drives you can simply use the homing Gcode or home button in Mach4 screen to home the machine in place. The machine will not move but will home itself at the current position it is in.

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Mach4 update

« on: June 22, 2022, 10:43:23 AM »

Hello Marne

Mach4 version 2 is fully supported by our motion controllers. This list includes 7866, 7766, EC01, DSPMCv3, & HiCON mini.

When you update Mach4 Please update the firmware on the controller, The plugin in Mach4 and VSI Device manager to the latest version. The manuals and downloads are available near the bottom of each product page on our website.

We also encourage our users to maintain backups in case they don't like something that was added in by Mach4 or us and if there are some breaking changes for your custom scripts. Usually there is no need to update to the latest version if you are happy with the current operation. We continually add new features and bug fixes. It is nice to hear you had backups.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Re: Control analog outputs

« on: May 26, 2022, 05:58:39 PM »

Hello Olaf

Please send an email to support@vitalsystem.com with a screenshot of VSI device manager with the "Activations" tab open. The controller has to be connected to the computer and selected in the device manager for it to show up.

We can then lay out the options on how you can control the analog outputs for valve control applications.

Regards