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General Mach Discussion / 6040 spindle control

« on: January 18, 2019, 12:34:19 PM »

Hi all
Having trouble getting my spindle to turn off and on via Mach3. It is a nowforever E100 VFD. I have the thing wired to my motion card relay C to C on the vfd and NO to X1 on the vfd. when I change the peramiters on the vfd to run off of Mach3 the spindle comes comes on but when I toggle the spindle toggle or use the m code to shut it off, it just winds down for a few seconds and goes right back to whatever speed was sett on the vfd.

Any idea?

Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Looking for some help TECO FM50 VFD

« on: July 25, 2010, 03:52:38 PM »

Hey there All!!

I need a little help getting my computer to turn my mill off and on. I have a Teco FM50 VFD and a Logitrol controller that has 2 relays. I can hear the relay when I hit the toggle spindle button in Mach3 but cant seem to figure out how to get it to control the VFD. I have one wire out of my relay going to the FWD terminal and one going to the Relay terminal, and I also have adjusted the F10 parameter(Start/Stop Control) to 1 which is Terminal(TM2).

What am I missing folks? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Need help with motor tuning!!

« on: November 28, 2009, 08:22:43 PM »

Howdy all!
Got my Bridgeport clone x and y axis done, still working on the z, but I need some help setting up the motor tuning. I have the steps and all that figured out, been using it as is for a couple weeks, and everything is cutting to dimension. What I need help with is setting the acceloration and velocity. I have it set up right now with a velocity of 25 and accel 4, dont ask me how I got to these numbers cause I don't remember, but I want it to go faster without loosing steps. I do not know how to do the tuning and am afraid to just start tweaking thing. I am sure it should be able to go faster without loosing steps, but I need some guidance to figure it all out.

Thanks in advance!!

Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Printer Port?

« on: October 15, 2009, 11:15:26 AM »

I know there has been trouble getting some 2nd printer ports to work right, I was juist wondering if anyone can suggest one that they now will work correctly. I have my Bridgeport clone up and going on x and y and am working on the z, will post pics when I am done, but I want to add the spindle control. I have a C6(cnc4pc) spindle controler and need to get a 2nd port and breakout board. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Manual Z

« on: October 04, 2009, 01:30:38 PM »

Hi all
I am working on my Bridport clone conversion, and have the X and Y done. I would like to use the mill as is while I am working out the Z axis. I tried searching here and did not find the answer, but I would like to do manual z moves. How do I get it to stop when it comes to a z move and let me manually move the z. I have fiddled around with it and it still just blows right thru without stopping. I saw apost that referanced a couple of scripts:

ZDN_2d.m1s
ZUP_2d.m1s

But I cannot find these scripts or how to write them.

Thanks
Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Trouble cutting accurate parts

« on: December 11, 2007, 10:45:34 PM »

I am having more trouble. It seems that from day to day things change on my mini mill. I cut a part one day, and if I cut the same part the next day and do not change any settings, it comes out a different size, what am I doing wrong?? I set the steps in the auto setup, using a dial indicator, but then when I run a program, seems to just fall apart. Motors are not making any funny noise like they are losing steps or anything, but I can not for the life of me get any kind of consistancy.

Thanks
Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Keygrabber

« on: December 04, 2007, 09:09:04 PM »

Anybuddy willing to help me with keygrabber? Are there any instructions anywhere.

Thanks
Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Need Some Help!!

« on: December 03, 2007, 10:02:42 PM »

Hi all, I downloaded V2.61 tonight and have it installed on a computer with no machine hooked up. I tried to edit a button script by pasting a script into the auto tool zero button. When I press the button I get an error message that says Compile error: Syntax error. I have this same script on my machine computer that has an older version of Mach3 and it works there. I am just glad I did not install the updated version there yet. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks
Walt

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General Mach Discussion / trouble w/limit switches

« on: February 19, 2007, 11:19:33 PM »

Hi again all,
I am trying to hook up home/limit switches as per the new setup guide.
But I am having troubles. I have 5 switches but for now I have only
hooked up 3 in series as x,y,z home as per the set up guide. when i do
a ref all the z goes up till it hits the switch like it is supposed to,
but it does not back off of it and causes an e-stop instead.

Anybody care to help me out.

Thanks
Walt

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General Mach Discussion / Help!!

« on: February 18, 2007, 03:11:01 PM »

I tried setting up a game pad with mach, I had some of the things I wanted working, but know even with the game pad unpluged from the computer, the arrow keys on the keyboard do not work for jogging as they did before. If I press an arrow key it works the first time but then if I press it again or another key nothing happens and I see a message in the status window that the script has been terminated.

Thanks for your help!!
Walt