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General Mach Discussion / Power to steppers

« on: January 31, 2022, 03:50:40 AM »

Hi All,
 Sadly my Gecko540 gave up on me, although I changed the fuse it sounds like there is a short somewhere whic I cant' find, I had bought some time ago a package of a breakout board and driver board. The breakout board connects to the computer with the same  parallel  cable as the gecko did. I have power to both boards red lights and if I use the key board I have green lights on the driver board each motor and the DRO's move, BUT I have no power or movment of the steppers.
What have i missed?? I have run the driver test in Mach3, I have run at 100k other wise it say it is to fast on other setting but I have an very good on this setting.
Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Limit switches

« on: May 13, 2020, 12:30:16 PM »

Hi all,
I have had loads of problems, I have sorted most but the limit switches, I have a Geko 540 running on Mach3 The mannual says conect one wire to an imput and the other to common no luck, I am I missing somthing in Mach3??

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / help with new controller

« on: November 26, 2019, 05:31:10 AM »

Hi all I am looking at a new controller what does this mean Nvem does not support spindle speed feedback（INDEX）

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3

« on: November 11, 2019, 09:44:50 AM »

Hi all, I have a problem with loading Mach3, If my CNC computer plays up I can normally use the saved copy of Mach3 from my USB stick to get working again. This happen at the weekend , although this copy works on my house computer it will not work on the CNC one. When I press the reset button I have no green light on my controller. I have checked the charge pump setting in Mach3 ports and pins.

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Settings Mach3

« on: October 04, 2019, 08:07:15 AM »

Hi All I have had some finger problems I accidentally deleted Mach3 on my CNC I keep I copy on USB so I reloaded it but it will only read/show 440 lines of G code and help please.

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Auto Z zero

« on: October 02, 2018, 12:49:20 PM »

Hi all,
I had a computer crash some weeks ago, when my power supply in to computer went dead.
I have manage to reinstall my Mach3 to almost where this happened,( I am using screen set 2010 and have been very happy with it from the start), all but the auto Z for when I do a tool change.
When I click ether button on the tool bar I get the following message. CLEARANCE PLANE MUST > 0 - PLEASE RESET.
Can anyone throw some light on this.

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Help

« on: July 12, 2018, 06:15:29 AM »

Hi I down loaded and pay for screen set 2010 back then, every time I change my computer I seem to loss it can some one resend it to me please.
I all so have a problem when I turned on my CNC mill today I had this error "ATL 71.DLL "  not found please reinstall. Were do I find this??

Mike