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General Mach Discussion / Problem mapping Ports and Pins to Mach3 diagnostic LEDs

« on: April 04, 2016, 12:34:50 AM »

Hello,

I'm working on a friend's plasma table at the moment trying to get torch height control working, and this issue has got me seriously confused.

In ports and pins, the pins are setup under Torch Up and Torch Down, but on the diagnostic screen the LEDs for M2, M3 and M4 home light up where the THC LEDs should light up.

This has been tested both while cutting and using the test mode of the THC controller.

It's a Gecko G540 controller with an Ethernet smooth stepper.

I should also point out that the machine was looked at by 2 previous people to myself.

Best thing I can think of is reinstalling mach3 and setting up from scratch, incase something has become corrupt or something silly.

I'm trying to figure out the whole G28.1 thing but that's something for another day.

Thanks in advance,

Ash

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CS-Lab / Trouble with CSMIO/IP-M

« on: December 12, 2012, 06:41:54 AM »

Hey Guys,

I hate to be asking for help on my first post, so apologies for that.

Now;

I have set up a new CSMIO/IP-M to replace a cheap chinese motion controller (and replacing NCSTUDIO with MACH3 in the process).

The manual is pretty straight forward, and the axes jogged straight away when powered up, and the VFD is reading the analog signal without problems.

However;

None of the digital inputs/outputs work.  I connected home/limit switches to 3 of the digital inputs, from +24v to the switch to the + digital input, along with the emergency stop.  This is how it is described in the diagram in the manual.  I setup mach3 with the ports set to 10 and the inputs set to the various pins.

I set up the various settings to make the spindle switch on with the Digital Output 4.

When I toggle the spindle, the output light on the CSMIO controller does not light up.  As a matter of fact, when all the outputs are mapped to the enable signals in mach, they still don't light up.  HOWEVER, if you set output 4 as the HVenable in the plugin settings, the light comes on!

The digital inputs do not respond at all to any inputs, ie none of the leds come on and nothing is triggered in mach.

I spent 8 hours today trying to work this out, can anyone please help?

This seems like such a silly little problem but is a major pain.

Thanks

Ash

PS. - Page 21 of the manual shows pins 9 and 23 as the connections for the digital outputs that require 24v from the inverter, yet the manual on page 12 suggests that this may be incorrect I think?  But anyway, I should just be using one of the relays to switch the inverter on, as it has no 24v output as suggested.