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Promote and discuss your product / Re: New Screenset for Mach3 Turn is here!

« on: December 01, 2017, 08:15:05 PM »

What version of Mach 3 do you recommend with it ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: February 27, 2017, 03:59:43 PM »

Hi Art, i finally got it working and doing what it is supposed to do ,and the spindle works.

 The other thing i found is that if you do not enable home - in the motors tab in Darwin it will not allow you to jog in the Axis + direction in Mach 4 and gives you a error ( can not jog toward X or Z + limit switch).

And it does disable your M03 commands from the Mdi line , if you check the the ( home -) in Darwin you get your Spindle back crazy!

I am not sure at this point as to how to get it to home in Mach 4 i need to home in the + direction and it will not as of yet.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: February 27, 2017, 11:25:12 AM »

I am having a problem with Darwin arbitrarily changing the frequency on its own after i input a frequency on a out put pin to the spindle pin .

I am trying to set the spindle pwm frequency on pin 1 port 1 and i set to say (50) i enter it, close out Darwin plugin, go into mach  toggle the spindle forward .

I come back into Darwin plugin and it has set out put frequency to ( 2) on pin 1 port 1.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: February 26, 2017, 06:13:33 PM »

It was in  the motor enable panel i am setting up a lathe and i used motor 0 and motor 1 and i should of used motor 2 for the Z axis motor.

I could not get the drives to enable and the charge pump to work before .i had tried before about 9 months ago an just kept waiting for something new to come along .

I finally figured out i had to put a 5khz signal out to the charge pump pin and then invert the signal to the drives enable pin to get the thing going.

I want to ask is there some docs somewhere on the spindle set up for Darwin and Mach 4?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: February 26, 2017, 03:20:31 PM »

Hi all i am having some issues with the parallel port plug in and mach current lock down version mach 4 and parallel port plugin.

 The issue is that i can not get the Z axis to move in mach 4 turn it is grey-ed out in the software. at the jog panel

I have checked that all licenses are present and correct Mach 4 and Darwin , the motor is enabled and set up in Darwin and mach 4 .

The x axis worked ok no problem but no z axis as it is grey-ed out in the jog panel, the E stop is working correctly and i can jog my motors in the Darwin plug in.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Re ESS and Mach 4

« on: July 10, 2016, 08:40:15 PM »

I finally got it working ,i disabled the charge pump ,and enabled another out put to get it going.

  I have just one problem left is the index, i enabled it in the pins in ESS and on the inputs page ,and it also shows up in mach config.

And i can see the led light go on and off as the magnet passes by, and i know the wiring is right as this was a working system before the change over.

but i get no signal in the diagnostics page .

Ill keep playing around with it,i must have something set wrong somewhere who the heck know's.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 19, 2016, 04:36:40 PM »

I have talked to several others , with this B/O board and they tell me mach 4 is not able to turn on the driver to the e stop relay built into the board and with out that signal nothing will work on the outputs.
  Sooo i think i am screwed at this point ,i will go back to mach 3 on my lathe .

  I abandoned Mach on the mill to another program with a either net board ,and all i had to do was import my mach xml and wang bang i was up and going ,i do not think that Mach 4 is going to work for me right now ,maybe in the future ,at this point i will ask for my money back and go somewhere else for my needs .

Until this system can be proven ,and gets much more easier to configure , because this thing is a night mare.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 18, 2016, 08:24:15 PM »

I think i can disable the charge pump and run with out it, but i know nothing will run with out a enable signal on pin 14 all drives are daisy chained internally in the board.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 18, 2016, 08:09:01 PM »

Art here is a link to it   http://www.dmm-tech.com/DMB4250-8B_main.html   there is also  mach config screen shots that shows its config , and mine is set up exactly the same .

As i see it there is no exposure to the charge pump pins.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 18, 2016, 03:30:13 PM »

I have done some further investigation of the mach 4 and this is what i am getting , i come out of e stop i have two enable signal's active even though they are not set up , i tried everything to get them to go off.
  However if i try to enable a particular enable pin ,it will not enable.

I have limits working if i hit a switch it shows in mach in diag. page,  however no outputs will work at all or enable pins, that is were i am at so far , and i am stuck and can go no further.