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HiCON Motion Controller / MPG Hand-Wheel-Controller Best Recommendation for Hicon Integra

« on: May 28, 2019, 07:14:43 AM »

Please forgive me if this question has already been addressed .... but I could not seem to see anything in the Hicon topic.

I have a 3 axis CNC router, controlled by Mach4 and Hicon Integra 7766.

I know that Vital Systems offer a 'MPG06 Unit w/ DB15M + EStop Button + Differential Encoder' ... so this may seem like a stupid question???

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a 'best-option' remote controller for use with my Hicon/Mach4 system?

I did purchase a hand controller off eBay (It looks exactly the same as the Vital Systems one but it came with loose wires and a Chinese instruction sheet; I tried wiring it up but couldn't get it to work). I don't know if I need to enable something in Mach4? There are settings which I do not understand - like 'Enable VSI MPG', Selection of MPG0, MPG1, MPG2, etc.



I have seen some wireless ones available for Mach4 but do not know if they are a good idea.

What I really want to know is .... Can someone recommend something that they have personally been using without problems ... or is it best just to pay Vital Systems the $295, plus shipping to UK, plus import duty (probably $450 by the time it arrives).   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 Homing Incredibly Slow Problem

« on: May 22, 2019, 05:02:04 PM »

Hi Everybody … first time posting on here and I really hope someone can help?

After lot's of Internet searching, I cannot find anything that resembles the problem I have.

- My machine is a CNC router with X and Y and Z axis.
- My machine has stepper motors (sanyo denki 1.
- My motion controller is a Hycon Integra 7866
- I am running Mach4 Hobby version
- Machine has 3 mechanical homing switches (one on each axis)

I managed to configure Mach4 so that I can jog each axis in the correct directions, at what seems to be a sensible speed.
When I click on the 'Home' button, each axis homes at what I consider to be a normal speed.

THE PROBLEM

However, when the axis hits the home switch, it goes past by about 5mm then very, very, very slowly ticks/counts down to zero before displaying 'referencing complete'.

The Y axis takes the longest (about 6 minutes)??
Z takes about a minute
X takes about 4 minutes

.... so that's 11 minutes in total to home all axes!
 Surely that is not right?

Can someone please try to explain or suggest what I might have configured incorrectly?