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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 08:29:38 AM »

Ok. But anyway, biig thanks for help!

Also, Serial Port problem solved. This serial monitor have took control of port. So i've changed there setting to port 2, leaving in general settings port 1. Now all works fine, and VB has access to com port ^^

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 08:11:52 AM »

Yeah. My switches are open collector with PNP. So when not triggered = 5V , triggered = 0V. In ports&pins is set ActiveLow on every sensor.
I just dont understand, why mach3 skippes homeswitch tiggering and continuing to move...
You have said: "Y moves, switch is seen, it backs off then sets zero."
Maybe with this "backs off" stage is something wrong. Maybe there is some setting, that will say, how much you need to back off... or smth like that.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 07:43:53 AM »

already tried(

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 07:20:38 AM »

Here it is.
It's really strange, that when i press REF ALL HOME only 1 axis moves. When i press GO TO ZERO, then all 2 are moving

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 07:07:13 AM »

So i've started the system, and ajusted table so, that it is at home position. then i have pressed Zero X and Zero Y to make coords 0. But machine coords are 136 and -79.
And when i press ref all home - only Y axis start to move, and it passes Home mark ( at diagnostics tab M2Home lits yellow and then turn black again) and continuing to move for eternity =)
What kind of xml file do you need?
And big thanks for your support!

At diagnostics tab:
     Current position    Machine Coord    Work Offset
X    0                       +107                 +107
Y    0                       -84                   -84
I've tried to make offsets zero, but it wont work(

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 06:49:35 AM »

I cant figure out, what's going on with offests. Now showed, X +128.7000 and Y -9.9
And when i press homing button, Y just starts do decrement

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 06:42:45 AM »

With ports&pins is all ok. When i manually move XY-Table, at Diagnostics tab all looks fine. When triggered, lights with yellow.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 06:30:25 AM »

Thanks for help. Autooverride really helped!
I do homing with
REF ALL HOME button

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General Mach Discussion / Bunch of a questions

« on: August 10, 2010, 05:46:18 AM »

Hello everyone,

recenly i have made my system and now want to clarify some problems, that have occured.
Please sorry, if theese questions already were answered(i have searched in forum, but couldn't find any answers)
So:

1)Serial output wont work. I've enabled Event Driven Serial Control under Ports&Pins, Configured Baudrate at GeneralConfig.
So i have serial data sniffer, and if i send commands with Serial Monitor(that one under Function Cfg's menu) its all ok- sniffer shows all data, that was sent.
But i need to send commands from a macro. like M666.m1s contains:
SendSerial("EMON") - and this doesnt work. also tried  Call SendSerial("EMON") - doesn't work also.
Any ideas?

2) Limit switches. So i have 3 switches for every axis(2 of them) 2 limit and 1 homing.
So when limit switch is triggered, Mach3 comes in ESTOP mode, and disables all command execution, so i cant even turn off windings, to manually adjust position of my XY-Table. Do i need some kind of external switch\button, that will disable my limitsensors? Wiring is simple: every switch(hall effect sensor with open collector) is directly connected trough a pull-down resistor to the LPT input.
And also homing problem: Mach3 makes homing per software, and doesn't look at home sensors (just till X and Y coordinates per software will be zeros)
So i need that he will make homing, until homing switches are triggered.

Thanks.