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General Mach Discussion / Thanks to Hood for his help, NEW QUESTION

« on: June 07, 2008, 11:00:30 PM »

Hello all,
I'm running a Pentium III, 900mhz, 256m ram.
What should be my optimal Kernel speed setting as well as the pulse settings?
I've not noticed a considerable difference in the Kernel settings, but I have to set the pulse setting to something above 20 before I get any satisfactory results.
My steppers are of the typical ebay varity 2.25", I'm running 23volts through these with ballast resistors. So I'm not looking for out standing results.
Just the best I possibly can.

Peace
Neil

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General Mach Discussion / Motor tuning wont open in Mach 2.54, plus more

« on: June 04, 2008, 10:55:31 PM »

Hello all,
I have a version 2.54 on one machine. Toshiba laptop. It runs version 1.83 just fine. I could step the motors using the keyboard, I could step the motors using the screen pendant.
When I opened version 2.54 this evening. I could not run the motor tuning program.  I played around a little still not luck, So I copied an older known working profile to the Mach 3 directory and restarted Mach3. Now I can get the motor tuning program to come up but the motors wont turn. I haven't exhausted all my options yet. But was looking more for some quick insight.
Also what is the latest and greatest stable version running?

Thanks guys
Neil