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« on: March 06, 2016, 10:13:41 AM »
Hi Guys and Gals,
I am making the long overdue switch to MACH4.
I have a nice new DSPMC/ip V2 control box and I have it all setup on the bench making sure it all works before I install it. My goal is to have the least amount of downtime possible.
I will also be cleaning up some wiring that was done in haste when I got the machine running.
1. Updated the FPGA and firmware to the latest version.
2. Installed the latest version of MACH4 on a spare computer.
3. Setup the DSPMC, power supplies,breakout boards, terminal strip, and a fuse for the incoming power on a board. I did it this way so that the whole setup is portable, if I need to move off of the work bench I can.
4.Installed the latest DSPMC plugin in the plugins folder. The DSPMC is very particular about the plugin being suited for the firmware and I believe that it will now complain about a mismatch.
5. Deleted any unneeded plugins like Simulator and Modbus.
6. Went to the configure tab and configured the plugin to be active.
7. Deactivated any plugins that weren't needed.
8. Took pictures of my MACH3 config screens so I could transfer all the settings.
9. Configured MACH4 with all of the MACH3 settings.
10. Took a picture of the Brains page so I could duplicate my brains in LUA.
11. Powered everything up and VOILA, no magic smoke!!!!!
12. Lo and behold, MACH is talking to my DSPMC!!!!!!
13. Configure the DSPMC plugin to match my MACH3 DSPMC configure settings including motor tuning and steps/unit.
14. Temporarily wire in the MPG on the control panel that I never wired in MACH3. This is wired to a hard encoder input because I will never us all 8 of them.
15. Spin the MPG and watch the numbers change on the screen. I don't have motor or drives hooked up yet but on the DSPMC diagnostic screen you can see the MPG info come in.
16. I will probably hook up a spare motor and drive prior to installing this on my machine.
More to follow.
Mike
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