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General Mach Discussion / pcie to peripheral adaptor driver

« on: January 17, 2021, 02:47:54 PM »

i'm sure this is a issue more people have had.

i had to do a clean install of windows 7 (32bit) because of issue's with visual c++ file missing.
i then installed mach3 again.
before i did i took screenshots of the installed programs in control panel.
there were 2 PCI controllers installed
1: PCI multi-io controller
2: PCIe to peripheral adaptor

i'll add some pics of the screens and the hardware of the pc.

issue 1 (fixed): when i opend mach3 the screen flashed 2 times then a black screen and then windows restarted itself.
                       i then installed the PCI multi-io controller and this fixed that issue.

issue2: when i run the driver test from the mach3 folder i get the message "no driver sensed installed".
           if i look at my drivers i see a "mach3 pulseing engine" and under it "unknown device"

below it under other devices:
- PCI serial port
- PCI simple communications controller
both have a yellow exclamation mark


looking at any of the drivers properties, it says no driver installed.
the pc has a parallel port, and it used to run mach3 fine before the clean install.

here is a link to all the screenshots and pic they are too big to upload here.
https://mega.nz/folder/mGxm1JzI#6fcfNQ68ROnwt7b6IARJww

i'll try and upload some of them as reply

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General Mach Discussion / installing mach3 under new windows

« on: January 10, 2021, 04:04:14 PM »

hi everyone,

i'm having trouble with on my pc for the cnc plasma table.
problem is not with mach3 but with sheetcam/update for window 7.
my question is if i completly uninstall windows 7 and install a new version of windows 7 on my pc (no internet connection on the pc).
will i be abe to just install mach3 back.
i will be copying the mach3 folder on to a usb stick and place it back after i've installed the new windows 7.
will this work?
or is there more "magic" going on behind the scene in the operating system that i will lose when uninstalling windows?
pc works with a parallel port.

thanks!

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General Mach Discussion / Y-axis motor not running in sync

« on: February 02, 2019, 03:35:57 PM »

hi everyone,

a few days ago i added planetary gear reductions to my Y-axis (the axis has 2 motors, one on each side).
it's a 5/1 ratio and the machine runs smoother with it, and if a can get it to work correctly i'll do the X-axis as well.

after i put the gear reduction in, i calibrated the axis again in the settings page in mach3.
when i jog the y-axis with the steps per value mach3 gave, the whole bridge of the table twists, like 1 motor is running faster than the other one.
if i lower the steps per value (from 153 to 100) the problem goes away and the machine runs smooth and straight.
the y-axis before the gear reduction had drivers that were set to 25000 pulses/rev.
when i placed the reductions i changed those to 1600 pulses/rev.
also mach3 kernel speed is set to 100KHZ.

this seem a problem in the settings for the drivers and mach3 right?
no mechanical problem i would think?

anyone any idea what the issue could be?

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General Mach Discussion / mach won't save cv control settings.

« on: May 04, 2018, 07:23:04 AM »

hi everyone,

when i change the cv control setting and close mach3 (with or with saving settings) the settings always return to the default ones.
i'm changing the CV dist tolerance from 180 to 10
and the stop CV on angles from 0 to 85.
(to help with corner rounding)
i've allready changed the xml file to read only.

any help/guidelines regardings this problem would be appreciated.

thank you

cruz

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General Mach Discussion / Z-axis keeps going up

« on: April 12, 2018, 01:43:44 PM »

hi everyone,

i'm new here on the forum,
i recently bought a cnc plasmatable and a hypertherm 105.
the problem i now have is when i load part in mach3 and hit start,
the torch goes to its starting possiotion but then the Z axis start going slowly up and it doesn't stop doing this until it is out of travel.
thc is on and in sheet cam the correct parameters are giving for the part
 
any help would be highly appreciated