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I was unable to find a consistent cause of my problem. I changed from keygrabber to joytokey and have had far less issues with the system, although not entirely gone. I am planning on a computer upgrade in the near future utilizing a newer version of Mach3 and Windows7. Thank you for all your help.

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Thank you. I will be running a memtest tonite and then reload mach3. Stay tuned.

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Hood, Here is the .xml I am currently using. Thank you for your help.

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I just transferred the license to another machine with Windows 7 and it runs fine. Anybody have any ideas?

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Hi Hood,

I have not recently updated Mach as 1.83 has been working for me.

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Hello Forum,

I have been running an 1.7 ghz XP based system for years with version 1.83 of Mach3. I have had no trouble until this past weekend. I have a two sided part I was routing. I turned the part over, reset home and loaded the gcode. I didnt pay too much attention to the toolpath display. The router stopped mid-stream and when I checked the toolpath display, I noticed it stopped on line 500. Why was it in demo mode. The license info was at the top of the screen. I rebooted, and this time it loaded the entire gcode in the display, however, when I scrolled through the code, it stopped at line 500. I tried several different codes with the same result. Once in a while it will load the entire code. I am stumped. This is a standalone machine with no internet connection and nothing has been changed. I do only have 256mb of ram, which is the only thing that might be marginal, but it has run for years. Any ideas?

Thank you,

Wayja

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie X Axis Problem
« on: October 13, 2009, 09:15:12 PM »
Hello Hood,

You were right. There were a few things out of wack, for some reason. I found a hard wire broken and the configuration of pins was wrong in MACH3. It now runs like it should. Thank you so much for helping me look in the right direction.

Cheers,

Wayne

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie X Axis Problem
« on: October 13, 2009, 05:41:56 PM »
Hood,

After further troubleshooting and controller swapping, it does appear that using the keyboard jogging feature, the controller is sending both + and - values to the motor as + only, forcing the motor to only move in the positive direction. Does that make sense? Now I just have to learn the wiring for Parker Zeta controllers and motors. Thank you for your help.

Wayne

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie X Axis Problem
« on: October 12, 2009, 09:10:29 PM »
Hey Hood,

Thanks for the reply. I have tried what you suggested and no joy. I created a test code z-axis with ups and downs and the controller is sending all code as up. It is almost like the encoder can only turn one way! I guess I will have to get into the wiring ans see if there is a problem there. I do not receive any errors in Mach3.

Thanks again for your time.


Wayne in California

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General Mach Discussion / Newbie X Axis Problem
« on: October 12, 2009, 07:47:07 PM »
Hello Forum,

I have just setup my first machine and am having a problem I cannot figure out. The machine came with the computer loaded with Mach3 and Mastercam X. I created a basic block of wood with an extruded design in Solidworks and imported it into Mastercam X. The first problem I have is after loading the model into Mach3, it does not show it on the display, but lists the code. The second problem, is no matter what I try, the X Axis only moves up. I have reviewed the code and everything appears correct. It starts at 0.0 and does a retract of .25, and then starts machining up! The code plainly calls for a negative transition after the retract. Does this sound like a hardware or software problem? I swapped controllers with the same result. Any advice or info anyone could provide would be most appreciated.

Thank you in advance,

Wayne

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