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General Mach Discussion / Re: Total Newb, No motion, frustrated......
« on: September 09, 2006, 07:36:07 PM »
ger thanks, that was it!


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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to everything, and a big question
« on: September 09, 2006, 07:34:46 PM »
Allan, thanks for the deepgroove info, hate to bother him, but if I get really stuck I will not hesitate.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to everything, and a big question
« on: September 09, 2006, 07:31:56 PM »
Thanks for the answers and help.
Yes I watched all the tutorials,read everything etc.

I now have motion!!!!!!   it was the Estop (needed to be active low instead of off since I don't have one), and setting pins to port1 which wasn't done. Info that would have been great to know before wasting an hour or 2 trying to figure it out.

Now on to setting up the motors' speed etc. Pretty sure I'll need some help there too. lol

As I have questions/problems I will post them here and hopefully the answers as to help others in the same situation.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Xylotex/files/  this has an xml file and set up info for Xylotex/Taig/Mach, but don't think I would use his set up (it is for 3 axis board) might help with your set up to look at it. His info doc is in word97 and the pics will not translate to newer format, but every little but helps.

Still glad to get any info on motor tuning settings. x y and z sizes for soft limits etc.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to everything, and a big question
« on: September 09, 2006, 12:13:47 AM »
Hey in the same boat, and would love for Mach, or Zylotex to have an xml/set up file for Taig and Zylotex controller, or some one who has already done it to make it available. I have found that the very smart folks who produce these products forget that we newbs need everthing spelled out in sometimes not so technical jargon. At least in the beginning!
I can't get the motors to turn, and have no clue what is wrong. I just keep going over everthing and trying, but no luck.
Any info that u guys find out on this set up please post here.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Total Newb, No motion, frustrated......
« on: September 08, 2006, 11:54:23 PM »
The motors are not mounted yet per the manual's suggestion. They power up, maybe not lock up, wrong word choice.
The axis are checked, and pins are correct in the set up.
I did have to disable (uncheck) the Estop since my controll box doesn't have one. I couldn't reset Mach except offline. Took a long time to figure that out lol.

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General Mach Discussion / Total Newb, No motion, frustrated......
« on: September 08, 2006, 11:12:42 PM »
Have brand new Xylotex plug-n-play 4 axis kit, know it is working, motors lock up on power on.
Have followed all Mach 3 directions, and Xylotex settings, but cannot get motion. I will be installing on a Taig mill as soon as I can get motion.
I am sure it is my ignorance in all things CNC, but cannot figure it out. Finally figured how to get my system to reset with out being offline, since I didn't have an Estop and mach automatically sets one I had to disable it. Now, I would really like to see all this $ do something, lol.

Any and all help appreciated!!

any Taig set up info, i.e. soft limits, etc would also help

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