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Modbus / Re: Arduino Modbus, Complete, Documented and free

« on: September 30, 2016, 06:42:10 AM »

i have all this working with uccnc as well as mach3 now.
great stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-T4hNrYVa4

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: Plugin - Serial Interface to Arduino THC, with source

« on: March 30, 2015, 06:15:48 PM »

has this project been completed/perfected?

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Modbus / Re: Arduino Modbus, Complete, Documented and free

« on: March 29, 2015, 05:15:24 PM »

great thread.(and thank you shilling)  i made the changes mentioned and got my mega working within an hour or so!
now i just have to do the hard bit- sending/receiving these registers to old i/o cards on my machine via the arduino on  a seperate com port.
stupid things have 192600 baud rate and an xor checksum ..... wish me luck!

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 24, 2015, 06:29:00 PM »

That was a good short explanation! Lol
I have 8  Ethernet  Eco 21series controls and 4 optima 2200 series on the spares shelf!
Oh well.
To be fair. My machine has been superb at its original job of point to point cabinet work- and also something it was never made to do originally- small and fine carving work. Only possible due to the mach3 plugin you did.
Maybe il have another look at 4 next year. See how it's grown up .
Regards
Benny. uk

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 24, 2015, 05:23:08 AM »

Ok. Seems like il stick with m3 for the moment then.
Question re contour mode, in what way is it better than linear mode?
Any chance of a quick explanation ?

Most of my machines are still running the old version 4 smarterm plugin. My programs are not huge and it's worked well
Il try the newer 4.6 with the next one.
M3 is probably easier for me as Ive learnt a lot about writing macros and how it all works since I converted the first big one !

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: February 23, 2015, 05:40:44 PM »

Hi steve.
What is the status on Mach 4 galil etc?
Another one of my big Biesse original controls has just done the splits!
I just got a new 2280 (same as I used in the first one)
I just read that your only going to support the accelera series?
All my machines are on the older 2100,2200 or 2183 galils.
Have you got a price yet for the m4 galil plugin? Happy to pay for it
Or am I best to stick with m3?
I have purchased m4 but haven't licences it to a PC yet awaiting a supported plugin

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Galil / Re: Which Galil to use??

« on: January 16, 2013, 06:46:37 AM »

the j2s-40a drives work perfectly in step/direction mode so no galil controller is required
(only every buy the a suffix models for cnc work as the b, c, cp etc are no use at all for cnc work)

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Galil / Re: Mitsubishi J2S-40A and Galil DMC-2183 with ICM-20105

« on: August 24, 2012, 03:29:05 PM »

did you get this working? i have mr-j2s working with galil in torque mode

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Galil / Re: Adding an A axis

« on: April 09, 2012, 03:23:14 AM »

i dont know, the pokeys motor release is new and i dont have a board here to try,
it may be worth installing the pokeys plugin and see if there are any conflicts.

i think smurph would be able to answer this.

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Galil / Re: Adding an A axis

« on: April 07, 2012, 04:21:37 AM »

using the galil plugin the parallel port cannot be used i believe.
for a 4 axis machine you ideally require a 5 axis galil (extra axis for variable spindle speed)