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Galil / Homeing Master/Slave with Mach4 and Galil DMC 2163
« on: April 20, 2017, 10:31:56 PM »
Hello,

I am finishing up a rather large router with the above setup and I am having an issue with homing the master/slave axis.  I only have a home/limit switch on the master axis and it looks as though as though Mach4 4 is trying to home both master and slave.  I have unchecked the "perform axis squaring", and I have the master/slave set up in Galil Suite and in Mach4.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks for any help,
Andre

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 ESS Probing Problems
« on: March 23, 2017, 02:32:19 AM »
Hello,

I just started with Mach4 and the ESS board.  Everything seems to be working ok but I'm having a problem with the Lua scripts and probing.  I have tried many of the probing scripts on this site and got most of them to run under debug, but if I assign a script to a button, nothing happens. I'm sure it's something simple but it's giving me a run for my money.  I have watched all of the Daz tutorials and I have moved script files to different folders but nothing helps.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Andre

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Galil / Master Slave setup
« on: October 12, 2015, 05:20:20 PM »
Hello,

I'm still trying to setup my Galil 2183 with Mach3 and I still have problems with the master slave working properly.  I was wondering if I am supposed to set up the gantry mode in Galilsuite and Mach3 or just in Mach3 alone.  The gantry system works fine when I and jogging the Y axis and the slave A axis.  When I try to run Gcode, the motors start to get out of sink and the a axis will be so far of the it trips a fault.  I have the setting all set the same for both axis in Maach3 and Galilsuite but everything I try seems to provide no remedy.  Using brushed DC servos with AMC drives and CUI capacitive  line driver encoders.  Any help would be appreciated so much.  I'm at the point of giving up.

Thanks,
Andre Barclay
   :'(

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Galil / GCode with Galil DMC 2163
« on: April 22, 2015, 01:31:11 PM »
Hi all,

I just got my servos up and running in both the Galil Suite and Mach3.  All motors move when instructed by the hot keys but I'm not getting any motion when I try to go to zero or when I try to calibrate the motors.  I must have missed something somewhere.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

I'm kind of desperate at this point.

Andre Barclay

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Galil / Connecting 24vdc relays to Galil DMC2183 controller
« on: March 05, 2015, 12:29:40 PM »
Hello,

I am moving along nicely with my Mach3-Galil project but I have a few more questions.

My main question now is I want Mach3 to instruct the Galil controller to activate an output and I want that output to turn on a 24vdc relay.  I have an external 24vdc power supply but I'm not sure how to wire it to the pins on the controller without frying everything.  Can someone point me to a schematic that shows this setup?  The relays are for turning on a vacuum pump and a dust collector.

My other problem is connecting a VF drive to control a spindle.  I basically need to send the drive an on/off command and control the speed.  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for such a great forum.

Andre Barclay

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Galil / Galil DMC-2163 and Encoder Wireing
« on: December 14, 2014, 11:20:13 PM »
I started a retrofit project and quickly realized I have a serious lack of understanding about Galil controllers.  I have 4 Gecko 320 servo drives and I want to hook them up to the Galil controller but I'm unclear on the encoder hookups.  My motor encoders now go to the Geco 320s but from what I read, they need to be hooked up to the controller.  Do I daisy-chain them from the drive to the controller or do I bypass the drives and go to straight to the controller?  Maybe Gecko's are not the way to go but every other servo drive that I have seen requires encoder feedback.  What am I missing?

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