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

« on: April 21, 2017, 01:12:00 AM »

   People tend to use a Galil to drive analog servo motors in Mach 3 as it is one of a very few plugins that can do that.  If you don't want to drive analog servos, then there is really no reason to run a Galil

That is exactly why I got a Galil card.  I had a Bridgeport which had been fitted with an Anilam system from new.  I wanted to keep the servos, drivers and glass slides and the Galil and Mach3 was really about all I could find except for one ridiculously expensive system which had bad reviews in general.

Sorry for ranting, I see that now, but not at the moment. 

I wanted the best controller for my machine, for eventual upgrades and the ability to program certain things on the rest of the axis/ which now i see is better done using 100$ PLC/ So i was between CSMIO and some others, when i saw the 8 axis Galil for 450$ versus the CSMIO which is 800euro. Thats why. Boy, what a mistake. But still exactly what i was saying. I could have payed even for the plugin, but when no support for second hand Galil..  In fact i received once support, not on second question i asked. So i sold it.


What i was saying was that now there are better solutions

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

« on: April 20, 2017, 10:39:34 AM »

My advice is Not to use Galil products wirth Mach3. No support for the plugin. Absolute waste of time. the Ethernet software is ridiculously old and clumsy. For that money now there are much better solutions.

I am confused by your reply.
Firstly, what support for the Mach3 plugin will I need? It works fine now. Will that change?
What time am I wasting?
I am ridiculously old and clumsy so I am a good match for the ethernet software.
For what money?

If it works for you then "Good luck!"

Once i needed help and i asked here at the time /year 2015/ still no answer. http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,30436.msg211370.html#msg211370

What money? The money a Galil  controller costs even second hand. And that for sth without official support, on a problematic Mach3...No thanks.

I am using now Chinese offline controller, no PC, No Mach3, No windows. Thanks God. At last all works 100%

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

« on: April 20, 2017, 07:23:35 AM »

My advice is Not to use Galil products wirth Mach3. No support for the plugin. Absolute waste of time. the Ethernet software is ridiculously old and clumsy. For that money now there are much better solutions.

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PoKeys / Connecting touch probe

« on: April 22, 2016, 03:17:57 PM »

Hi,
 I need some help please. How exactly to connect a touch plate for tool probing to Pokeys 57CNC ver.1.1?

i connected a cable to pin 19, opened the " input" dialogue in Mach3 and i think more or less did it. Now i touch the plate to spindle and shows blinking light at diagnostic screen istead constant light. Manual says "Probe input On PoKeys57CNC v1.0, v1.1 and v1.2 external pull-up resistor must be used"

How  do i do that and what resistor i need?

Thanks!

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Galil / Some help connecting DMC-2183 DC24V coupled with 2 x ICM-20105 to steppers

« on: July 04, 2015, 06:07:39 AM »

Hi, i need some help connecting the DMC-2183 DC24V coupled with 2 x ICM-20105 in stepper mode.  I posted that at the galil forum but for 2 weeks no answer.

Surely somebody here have done that and could shed some light;

Please some help connecting servos / via step dir mode like steppers/ . I have read extensively the documentation but there are some details i don't understand well as i am not very good with electronics.



What have done so far:
-Sinking Configuration
-For 24V isolated enable, tied +24V of external power supply to AECOM1 at axis D-sub, tied common return to AECOM2.
-Replaced RPAE2 with a 4.7 kΩ resistor pack
- at 15-Pin Male D-sub , have connected also pin2. Amp enable X to enable the external servo amplifiers

Now there are things that i have not clear and need help with:
- at pin 15 PWM/step X and pin 8 Sign/dir X go the positive step and dir signals. But where i connect the other 2 corresponding wires return/negative from drive ? To pin10 Ground or to pin 9 Amp enable common-2 (AECOM2)
-at drive manual says it operates at 5v and to add 2kΩ at step and dir inputs when is 24V operated. But we have already the RPAE2 4.7 kΩ resistor pack at the exit signal right? So do i add that additional 2k?

Additional questions
-resistor pack RPAE1 always stays 470Ω, right? We change only RPAE2 depending on voltage, right.?
-do i need to do something else apart from changing the jumpers for step motors

Spindle speed control question
-for spindle 0-10v control via MACH3 i understand i connect to axis H for example. One wire i connect to the pin 14 Motor Command , where i connect second wire - To pin10 Ground or to pin 9 Amp enable common-2 (AECOM2) ?
-i have removed the step jumper on the board, is that right

Thanks in advance!

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

« on: March 07, 2015, 02:50:07 AM »

Hi guys, thanks for the plugin! But where to download the latest version for Mach3? Somebody send it to me at costademaria @ gmail.com please 

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Neuron.THC Torch Height Control (plasma)

« on: August 16, 2014, 06:57:07 AM »

I am building a machine Using Galil Ethernet board DMC-2183 and servo on all axis which most possibly will be driven in step dir mode. Normally there would be spindle mounted but from time to time i would like to plasma cut. And that without removing the spindle, just encosing its lower part for protection.

So how will that work in my case? Would that be possible? The Galil board has its own plugin to be able to work with mach3 and occupies one Ethernet port.

What are the solutions in that case? Switching to another board when plasma cutting or the control can work on its own, just sending it step dir signals and programming it separately.

Could you please shed some light on this?

Thanks!

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Neuron.THC Torch Height Control (plasma)

« on: August 08, 2014, 12:54:09 PM »

Hi,

what would be the price?

And the most important question- does it offer some control at cutting corners and similar? Does it stop the torch going down?

thanks!

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Galil / Re: 100 pin connector

« on: January 14, 2014, 06:46:05 AM »

from Galil forums:

The part number for the PC-board mount 100-pin connector is AMP 2-178238-9

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Feature Requests / Re: Special flood/ vacuum cleaner timer function needed please

« on: February 27, 2013, 05:20:02 AM »

First, you have to do a lot of testing to find out if that will actually save any power.  It may well cost you more.  Often it uses less power to leave a motor running all the time than to cycle it often.  It takes a lot more power to get something moving than it does to keep it moving.  I have heard that generally air compressors that start 8 times or more a day would use less power to just leave them running all day and use an unloader valve to regulate the pressure.  What your wanting will be a piece of cake for some of the macro gurus though.

Brett

Hi,
it would save power and money even if there is some power sucking at motor startup.

(;-) Your power cost must be extremely high. Here I can run a shopvac 24/7 for a month for less than $30US.

The best approach would be to use a simple brain that looks at a User Led. If the LED goes active then send to the timer as

0.000 start delay, 30.000 sec pulse , Delay to restart 120.000sec.

Then terminate the function to the output that turns on the shoppvac.


Userled2250 -------->Timer(0.000,30.000,120.000)------------> Output2


As long as the LED in on the timer turns on for 30 sec then waits 120 and repeates.


The main problem you face is the cutter will always be at the wrong place when the VAC turns on to collect the largest pile of dust/cuttings. MURPHY's law.

(;-) TP

The problem is i have no idea of brains and VB programming. This with the cutter is no problem. I would use this function for more or less cleaning, for the dust not to flow arround and not to obstruct the cutter. Some dust is acceptable with wood.

1kw of power here is 15 eurocents +21%=~19ec . My vacuum cleaner is 1.5kw but i want to put a bigger one. So for now an hour costs me 30 eurocents which is roughly half a $. 8h a day x 25 days =100$ + when i pass a certain limit for the household they raise the bill rapidly and charge me again +21%.  So yes, its a 100euro difference.

Or can i simply put some Gcode here and there to turn it on and off?  May be its simpler until sb make a timer?. How do i do that?