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Galil / Output Configuration
« on: November 02, 2010, 07:12:03 AM »
Hello All,

I hope you are a patient bunch cause I feel I have some pretty elementary questions.

I have recently purchased Mach 3 (wish I had found you when I thought camsoft was the only option) and have all but set up a 4 axis retrofitted manual mill with a motorman robot for parts loading.

Mechanically the system is a beautiful thing but I'm afraid I score 0 when it comes to pins and ports and so on.

I use a Galil DMC2143 controller with an ICM 20105 optically isolated break out board, connected via an ethernet cable to the PC running Mach 3 (The PC has no parallel port if that is of any consequence and a USB to serial converter as an alternative to the ethernet cable seems to me like a bandaid solution? - not that that has probably anything to do with anything).

What I need is to connect a set of 24VDC relays to operate mill functions: Spindle on/Spindle off, Coolant on/Coolant off, a solenoid energise/de-energise, and a momentary VDC signal to the robot for cycle start (achieveable via relay on then off command I presume?).

I have no issue connecting the 24VDC output supply and the relays to the Galil output pins on the breakout board, the issue is how to set the pins in the config section in Mach 3, ie: what relates to what?, and what commands other than M3, M4, & M5 can be issued to switch the relays? Is VB programming required? (god I hope not).

I have read the Mach3 and Galil plugin literature relating to outputs yet I have no idea how to get Mach 3 to control them.

Are there any step by step guides for the those of us who are completely pin and port setup'dly challenged or can anyone offer some advice? Any suggestions will be much appreciated!

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