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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!! Motor will not move.

« on: October 22, 2011, 09:33:48 AM »

I figured it out. I had the jumper on the board in the wrong spot. I had com set to ground and it should have been 5v. I do have another question though. I need to be able to enter a length into a dro and have the machine move to that spot. can this be done? I know that I can do it on the mdi screen by entering g00x25 for example. I would like to get away from entering the g00x and just enter the length into a dro.

Thanks,
Andy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!! Motor will not move.

« on: October 22, 2011, 08:26:29 AM »

Just thought I would let you know how I had the jumpers set on the breakout board.

2-9 our outputs
com = ground
2-9 = pull up
inputs = pulldown

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General Mach Discussion / HELP!! Motor will not move.

« on: October 22, 2011, 08:08:04 AM »

 I'm new to Mach 3 and having some trouble. Here is what I purchased. All items were purchased from Kelinginc.net
KL-8070D stepper drive
KL34H2120-60-4A motor
c10 breakout board
KL-7212 72V/12A power supply

It appears that I have everything wired correctly but I can not get any motor movement when I jog the x axis. From what I understand I do not need a license for Mach at this point in the game. I just need an X axis for what I'm trying to do.

I have unistalled and reinstalled Mach twice to my computer. When I run the driver test initail everything comes up fine but if I go back in after I put in the correct port info in and run it again it tells me that the pulsing is too fast but then moves forward with the driver test and says excellent. Anyone here have any ideas.

The parralell cable I'm using is a straight through cable. Is this correct?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I have a question about using Mach 3

« on: October 08, 2011, 03:59:37 PM »

how would a person go about doing this?

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General Mach Discussion / I have a question about using Mach 3

« on: October 08, 2011, 11:44:23 AM »

Here is what I need mach to do for me. Can someone tell me if this will work. This is for feeding coil stock into a press.

I need to be able to enter a desired length in for one axis. Once the length is entered the stock will feed to that length then I need someting to send a signal to fire a cylinder on a press. Once the cylinder fires I would need it to feed another part. We could run up to 10,000 parts before I would need this cycle to stop. At that point another length would be entered. It would also be nice to be able to enter the number of parts and have it shut off once it gets done.

Thanks,
Andy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Wher to purchase motors, drives and breackout boards

« on: September 28, 2011, 10:08:17 AM »

Yes, I'm from IL. I will take a look at these sites.
Thanks,
Andy

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General Mach Discussion / Wher to purchase motors, drives and breackout boards

« on: September 27, 2011, 06:36:49 PM »

I have a few projects that I would like to use Mach 3 on. Where is a good place to purchase nema 23 and 34 stepper motors, drives, and breakout boards. I'm new to this so any feedback would be great. I have looked at a few packages on ebay from Chine but didn't know if they would be any good.

Thanks,
Andy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: torchmate plasma table upgrade help

« on: September 21, 2011, 10:01:19 PM »

Looks like a good way to go. Has anyone here used his set-up? Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / torchmate plasma table upgrade help

« on: September 21, 2011, 12:06:14 AM »

I have an older torchmate plasma table that I would like to upgrade to Mach3. I was wondering if anyone here has done this. I'm looking for some info on a good place to purchase the motors and driver board as well. Any help with this would be great.