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General Mach Discussion / Bouncing Limit Switches??!!! please help me regain my sanity!

« on: August 25, 2012, 08:07:39 AM »

Dear All

I have recently bought a ZP5A-INT Breakout board from Zapp and running Mach3Version3.043.062 on an XP desktop machine.

The motors work perfectly and very pleased however I added limit switches and having some problems. I set the inputs on the settings to pin11 and 12 as per the instructions, however they seem to bounce around switching on randomly. I checked the switches and they are fine, wired up NO so therefore set Mach3 up to register LOW active.

A funny thing happens when I touch the contacts with bare hands, the inputs seem to bounce on the diagnostics page.

Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Am I missing something.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Benjamin

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VB and the development of wizards / Completely automatic running of Mach3

« on: April 11, 2009, 12:01:56 PM »

Hello All

I am working on a project where a C++ program I am writing must start up mach3 and get it loaded and running completely automatically.

I have created a really basic macro which uses the "runfile" command and have placed it into the initialization string on the general configuration. The C++ program then starts Mach3 from the command line. This almost works however there is still a need to press the "Reset" button. Is there a way of running without the need of reset???

Any help would be much appreciated.


Benjamin

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General Mach Discussion / dual arm control

« on: February 18, 2009, 05:26:04 AM »

Hello there.

I am working on a project where we have two arms that we want to control to draw a picture. each arm has a simple motion of x and y along the plane of the paper and a z to engage the pen with the paper.

Does anyone know if it is possible to control 2 arms in this way? I understand mach3 can control 6 axis... perhaps there is a way of transforming the rotational axis to linear and wiring the actuators for the second arm into these on the control board.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers

Benjamin