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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 reset dosent' work

« on: December 14, 2018, 06:21:03 PM »

ok thanks, I have found that.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 reset dosent' work

« on: December 14, 2018, 04:48:41 PM »

ry changing the active low setting for the estop input.

I can't seem to find that.

I get an error that says
"Reconfiguration estop"

I am using ESS with Mach 3 latest version
Win7 ultimate
When turning on the Mach 3 I select the plugin ESS and then type n the ip address and it will not communicate with the machine.
We had to change computers, everything was working fine, the other computer suffered a hd failure.
I have follewed the install instructions step by step and still can't get it to communicate.
Any ideas ?
Thanks,

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 reset dosent' work

« on: December 14, 2018, 01:23:09 PM »

when i try to search this forum I get an error message.
I can't get the reset to work

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General Mach Discussion / Re: jog screen does not dislpay

« on: November 15, 2018, 06:58:14 AM »

when I set this up I changed the keyboard because the old one was dirty. the new keyboard is a USB. well I put the old keyboard back on and now it works. the old keyboard has a round plug. Maybe If i reinstall with new keyboard it would work?
Note, the new keyboard would jog with the direction arrows and PU and PD,

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General Mach Discussion / jog screen does not dislpay

« on: November 14, 2018, 05:21:07 PM »

I've used mach 3 for several years and the jog screen has always worked as expected. I moved my milling machine (taig) and computer to a different shop. Now when I turn it on I can't get the jog screen to show when I press "Tab". On the right side of the screen I can use my mouse and it will grab a line and I can drag it over, thinking this would bring the jog screen back, but I  can't get the jog back at all. I have restarted but no help.
Any ideas what I can do?
Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing steps

« on: December 20, 2010, 09:59:56 AM »

It ran through "bottom.NC" first. Then I had to make make a modification that resulted in moving my starting z down .005. then I modified my drawing and repost the code as "bottom_redo hinge face.NC"
ran the this  code  and had the problem. The time interval between codes was just en ought time to change the tool. Now when It started, I didn't pay attention to where it was cutting because it was going to cut some air first, which would have been on the left side of the part, then it move over in x approx .500 and that it when I noticed that it was cutting the wrong spot.

This happened 1 time when it moved  in y approx -1.5 during a face cut, was recommend to un-install and re-install Mach. did that and a few days later this moved in x happened. I was trying to see what was wrong before I ruined another part. I'm hoping the problem was the gibbs were too tight.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing steps

« on: December 18, 2010, 02:21:27 PM »

BTW is this 480 steps missed or added? - because if it's added, then it's definitely the DSLS that's the problem

When I checed my zero in X, it showed minus .060 and shoud have showed zero.
I am going to try to cut the part today.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing steps

« on: December 17, 2010, 04:47:29 PM »

I'm still trying to absorb all of this and how to proceed. According to who I bought it from, it is not suppose to skip steps, it is suppose to stop. I don't know but it did. This has happened since I have been re-tighting things back up. So will try to back off a little. I don't know enough about "velocity and acceleration settings  " to change those. Thanks for the help. I appreciate all of your guys help.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing steps

« on: December 15, 2010, 07:24:10 PM »

I thought it was a servo. Maybe I shouldn't have said missed a steip. Where I use to work we had a plaxma talble and it had stepper mortors and you could tell when it messed a step.
This link tells what it it.
http://www.microproto.com/DSLS.htm

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing steps

« on: December 15, 2010, 06:46:00 PM »

The thing about steppers is most people run then close to their max and the slightest thing such a dull cutter can tip them over the edge and they will miss steps. It is much better to slow the Vel and Accel a bit in motor tuning, especially on a small mill like you have as rapid speed is not so important as it is on a machine with large travels.
 Other things to check for are binding axis, this could be gibs too tight or oil needed on scrws or ways.

Hood

I was to the understanding that this one would not miss steps because of its
"utilizes advanced Digital Sync Lock Servo (DSLS) control technology. "

When I 1st got this machine about 10 months ago I had a terrible time with throwing th reset. so I loosened up everything trying to stop the reseting because I thought it was binding up. then someone suggestion to change the step pulse and that seemed to stop the random resetting. Now I have been retighing everything back to get rid of the backlash. IF i get it too tight then it throws the reset. then I back it off unti it runs smooth without binding. But I didnn't think it would miss steps if its binding. I don't think its binding but it could be.