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PoKeys / PoKeys 56E plugin

« on: July 18, 2011, 05:34:42 PM »

Any status on a plugin for the new PoKeys 56E yet?

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Galil / DMC-41x3 supported?

« on: July 11, 2011, 03:23:27 PM »

Hi there

Our retrofit is going forward, we can control our axis from GalilTools, but when im trying to register the device, a 4133, in DMC Smart Terminal, it not on list. Should we load it with DMC-21x2 firmware or are there any other way to registre it?

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Galil / Re: Retrofitting big router

« on: May 12, 2011, 04:46:16 PM »

Hi smurph

4143 sounds the way to go then.

I have been trying to map the pin out corresponding to the current controller as I will make an adapter board, so the control can be swapped back and forth when im testning. Im having a little difficulty understanding the different labels of both the sinumerik controller and the galil. This is my best shot so far, would be nice if somebody could comment, if I could get the pin right, I would feel comfortable enough to place an order

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Galil / Retrofitting big router

« on: May 11, 2011, 12:59:06 PM »

Hi there

We bought a old Reichenbacher CNC gantry router from 1993. Its a 6.5 ton beast with a 9kw main spindle and a 16 position rotary tool change. It sports a Sinumerik 810M controller and bosch servos and servodrives.

Here is a thread on cnczone about it http://www.cnczone.com/forums/commercial_cnc_wood_routers/124586-look_what_i_bought_6_a.html

The machine is top quality from back when they made everything to last a 100 years. The only downside is, that the controller is way outdated and we are limited to 30kb of program memory and a transfer speed of 1200 baud.

So we decided to swap the controller and mach is the choice, mainly because we can customize it and I used it on a couple of machines before. The servo drives are +-10v and the servos are "duel" encoders with one going to the servo drive and the second going to the controller.

Ive searching through a ton of information and came up with two choices Galil and dspMC/IP, im leaning towards Galil because of the more "professionel" look. Anyway, this thread are not about one vs. the other but I have a couple of questions regarding Galil:

1. Whould I gain anything from choosing the 4040 over the 4143? I will use the board only as motion/spindle control and for input of limit and home switch (24v). There are over 160 I/O, but these are going to be handled by a PLC.
2. Do I need to buy the Galiltools software to tune the axis? All I want to do is to tune the once and use Mach, no custom interface or anything.
3. Are there any advantages of PCI vs. ethernet? I could go with a 1842 or 1846 and a ICM-2900

I probably have a lot more questions, but this is it for now. Thx in advance

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "Pulsing to fast" ??

« on: May 17, 2008, 07:16:44 AM »

Both. But that hasnt stopped me before:-) This one is faster than the laptop i use for my other cnc machine. It cant be the CPU's fault, its hardly stressed if i look into the performance chart.

Hurray. Though i had already disabled all unnecessary services i remembered something about "Stanrdard pc" setting as mentionen as mentioned in the optimization file. This helped.

To people running into this problem: Remember to set/install xp with the "standard pc" setting (see xp optimization guide in the download area)

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General Mach Discussion / "Pulsing to fast" ??

« on: May 17, 2008, 06:50:47 AM »

Im trying to run the drivertest on a freshly installed 3.041 on win xp. It also a fresh installation of XP, with only mach 3 installed. It keeps saying "Pulsing to fast". This is what it looks like. I also tried the special driver with the same result



How do i solve this problem or is it a problem at all?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Via Epia + Mach 3 = No good?

« on: May 03, 2008, 05:04:28 AM »

It has a VIA Apollo CLE266 chipset. As far as i can read the pico board has the VIA VX700 chipset. But i have no problem running mach itself, so i guess it must be a driver problem.

Can someone tell me if this is error is due to mach not supporting this chipset or if there is anything i can do?

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General Mach Discussion / Via Epia + Mach 3 = No good?

« on: May 01, 2008, 07:20:16 PM »

I failed to get the mach 3 driver working on my Via epia M1000 computer so i did a fresh install of XP and ran through the steps in the optimization guide, but i still cant get the driver to work.

If i run the driver test the system freezes just as the driver test application takes over the system. The same thing happens when i fire up Mach3, it just freezes, unless i remove the driver from the system. Ive tried to reinstall it using the drivertest application, but still no luck.

Is there a chance that there is something with the Via system/driver that makes it impossible to run? I just paid all these $$$ for this wonderfull program