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Mach4 General Discussion / C6 variable speed control with RJ45

« on: September 08, 2020, 01:41:52 PM »

Hi,

I am wondering if I can use kingstar E-CAT system and hook up the C6 variable speed control with RJ45 port, in order to control the spindle from 0 to 10V. I have attached both user manual and I think they are compatible but I don't know if it would actually work. Also I don't know how I would set it up in mach 4 so that my Ecat dives would send a step and direction signal in the output port to the C6 board. I was wondering if someone could help guide me through it. I have attached user manual of both products.

Vivek.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach 4 setup

« on: March 13, 2019, 03:24:08 PM »

Hi I am using Hicon Integra controller and I am facing the following issue.

1) Spindle wont move with just MDI code or by just clicking on the spindle control button. it works when l I use the SRO slider to change the speed initially. How ever once I get the spindle running once, it runs good I can use both the button and MDI to start it. Do you know if I am missing something in the hicon configuration setting that is causing this problem?

2) The motor drive come as initially Enabled, I am wondering how to wire the Hicon so that they all disable as one gets disabled.

3) Also the motor driver has a Fault + and Fault - signals, that I want to connect to the Hicon and set it so that it gets the message on Mach 4 saying fault. Than a signal would go to enabled drive and  disable it.

Let me know if you ever came across any of this issues, and know if you can make it work.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach 4 homing erroer

« on: February 28, 2019, 09:48:46 AM »

Hi,

I get a homing error when I press the home button. "###Homing Error###. Motor:2 is not enabled" and I really don't know what I need to do in order to fix that.

Sincerely,

Vivek

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Mach4 General Discussion / Spindle speed buttons

« on: November 07, 2018, 01:07:52 PM »

Hi

I am trying to figure out how the spindle override slider works and how to make spindle over ride buttons for specific speeds. I have attached the screen I made to this post but it is not working as expected. I want the following done.

1) Use the slider to override the spindle at any point in the code and keep the range from 6000 to 18000 (what it does right now is it ranges on the rpms depending on the current spindle speed of the g-code program, I don't want it to be dependent on the program speed.)
2) Have buttons with specific rpm that when clicked it goes to that rpm and overrides the g code program. (what it does now is it ranges on the rpms depending on the current spindle speed of the g-code program and it doesn't over ride the program.)

My max speed is 18000 rpm and Min is 6000 rpm, so when coding it uses 100 as the 6000 and 300 as 18000

Here is the code I am using for the buttons under the left up script:

scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(100));         <-- this is for the speed or 6000
scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(133.3));      <-- This is for speed of 8000
scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(166.6));      <-- This is for speed of 10000
scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(200));         <-- This is for speed of 12000
scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(233.3));      <-- This is for speed of 14000
scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(266.6));      <-- This is for speed of 16000
scr.SetProperty('slideSRO', 'Value', tostring(300));         <-- This is for speed of 18000

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Mach4 General Discussion / Aligning Slave Axis Gantry

« on: November 07, 2018, 11:08:56 AM »

Hi,
I came across a website that has instruction Aligning Slave Axis Gantry but cant seem to find where that is in Mach 4 option. I am attaching an image of the screen grab that was on the post. Here is the website https://support.machmotion.com/books/knowledge-base/page/aligning-slave-axis-gantry---mach4. I just need to know where to go in configuration to see this options.

Vivek

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Mach4 General Discussion / homing 2 axis

« on: October 10, 2018, 02:43:13 PM »

Hi,
I am trying to home a hot wire table in 2 axis mode, where I have motor2 and motor 3 as a slave to motor 0 and motor 1. I want the motors not to be slaves only when its homing that way all four motors would hit the limit switch when home button is pressed. Does anyone know a way I could do this. I was thinking of creating toggle switch on the screen and program so it would toggle the motors between slave and working independently of one another, but I didn't come across a way of coding this in. I Would really appreciate the help. Thank you.