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General Mach Discussion / My Jog ON/OFF (ctrl+Alt+J) Button is messed up
« on: September 10, 2014, 10:32:49 AM »
Hi all,

Its been a while since I have been here.  I have my mill back in action and I was hoping to get some help on a long standing problem I have had with the Mach3 "Jog ON/OFF" button. 

If I use my mouse to pick this button, nothing happens.  If I pick it three times in super fast succession it finally turns it on.  However, when I go to turn it off I only need one pick of the mouse.  I tried the key board on the assumption it was my mouse causing the problem.  Unfortunately the same thing occurs.  One press of Ctrl+Alt+J does nothing.  If I hold Ctrl+Alt down and press J quickly three times on the keyboard, it turns the jog on.

I have searched the forum and found nothing to help me. 

I very much hope someone can provide some insight into this nagging problem.  It's not life threatening or anything.  Its just a real nuisance. :(

Thanks
John W.

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Dougie329

I have put a new post here to tell you why you are not going to get this working the way you are going about it.

The CNC4PC setup page says set Mach pins 2-9 as inputs but and its a big but, the pins 2-9 are outputs on the parallel port, that is what the C22 does it converts the signals, something that certain BOB's can do also.

Essential things that you seem unwilling to spend money on.

Phil



Well I have exactly the same problem as douqie329 but I have the C-22 board installed.  It made NO difference in my setup and I am still without a fully functional pendant.  And my Output #6 LED is still on as well.  For the cost of the C-22 card it wouldn't hurt to try it just to cover all the bases.  I even went with a higher end LPT PCI card and it didn't help.  This is the card I used (SIIG CyberPro PCI to Parallel Adapter JJ-P00112-S5) and it was recommended by someone on this board who was having similar problems with his pendant and it solved his problem, so I tried it.  Unfortunately it didn't help me.

John

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Thanks again Hood.  I am going to try and install the MPG later this week and would really appreciate some help when it doesn't work. I wanted to get my motors working properly first and then my limit and home switches second.  So other than this LED I'm just about ready to try the MPG again.

One question for you before I go at the MPG again; when I first tried to install it I had enable all of the OEM Triggers in ports and pins as per the documentation that I downloaded.  There are a series of JOG switches just below (after) the OEM Trigger switches in that tab.  There was no mention of these switches in the docs but it occurred to me later on that maybe they should have been enabled.  Then maybe my wheel might have worked as the switches were labeled for jogging.  Do you have any comment on that proposition.

John

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Thats because I was attempting to reset everything in Mach 3 back to the way it was before I tried to install the MPG.

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Thanks Hood.  I will. 

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And here is the brains I downloaded.

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Yes I did. 

Here is the link:

http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/index.php?cPath=40&osCsid=68034b45bf23ae30b50f1769a98a7365

It is the MPG2 that I purchased. Thats where I got the brains.

After my first attempt at installing everything I disabled the brains and put everything else back to factory condition (I think) and I disconnected the MPG.  I had originally installed a PCI LPT2 card specifically for the MPG but that card too is disable as well at the moment (disabled in ports and pins that is).  I double checked the address for the card and I am sure it was correctly installed at the time.  I also followed the installation guide that CNC4pc provided to the letter.  Everything on the MPG did work except for the wheel.  I could never get it to move the motors/table.

Thats where I am at the moment along with being a bit frustrated.  If it's any help I also have limit and home switches installed.  All in series and limit and home using the same switch.  They all work perfect.


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I had considered doing just that but I wanted to know why before I went ahead and disabled it just in case it was something important that I didn't know about.  You see I am wanting to install my MPG pendant and I am having all sorts of problems getting it to run.  The wheel that is. All the rest of it appears to work fine so I didn't want to disable anything that might be use by the pendant for fear of having further difficulties. I have asked Arturo for help and I believe he is working on it by reviewing my .xml file but I have received an update from him yet.

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Screen Hunter worked great but as the LED is flashing it took several tries to get an image that actually showed it ON. :D

So here it is:

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How does one take a screen shot?  As with a digital camera?

John

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