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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windsor, Ontario

« on: July 19, 2013, 07:34:04 AM »

Todd was the guy who fixed my machine.  He seemed to have a good grip on the Mach3 software.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windsor, Ontario

« on: July 18, 2013, 04:58:31 PM »

Mike,

I got it running by calling Cybertech in town.  Highly recommended.  Cast me about $400 though.
The machine worked great until a series of hard-drive and now motherboard failures.
Marc

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windsor, Ontario

« on: January 24, 2013, 02:55:02 PM »

Same computer.  I did the reinstall into a different directory, so the original is still there.
Hamilton is 3 hours away.  I'll wait a few days, see who else responds and possibly contact you.

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Windsor, Ontario

« on: January 24, 2013, 02:03:42 PM »

I'm in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.  I have a router with a MachMotion controller, Mitsubishi servos and Mach3. 
The system was working and then started behaving oddly.  I reinstalled Mach3 and started to set it up from scratch.  The machine no longer works at all.  The ports and pins setting for the machine dig not match those in the MachMotion Quick Start Guide, now neither the manufacturer's settings nor the settings that previously worked function.

I'm looking for someone within driving distance and familiar with the machines on that level to come and set this machine up.  I will be paying for the work.

Please contact me should you wish to offer your services.

Marc

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Erratic behavior during calibration

« on: January 14, 2013, 04:46:06 PM »

Attached are the XML's.  The one by itself is the one that was in the Mach3 folder today.  The ones in the other folder are from the xmls back-up folder.

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General Mach Discussion / Erratic behavior during calibration

« on: January 14, 2013, 09:35:53 AM »

I was setting the calibration on my X-axis.  I have done this numerous times before.  The feedrate was set very low.  I entered the desired movement distance, the machine slowly moved in the positive direction, I entered the actual movement distance, OK'd the new setting and tried a new distance to confirm the calibration.  This time my machine took off in the negative direction so fast I barely saw it, let alone had time to hit the E-stop.  It smashed into my proximity  limit switch so fast the switch got destroyed before it could stop the gantry.  The movement had to be more than 10 times what I had entered, and in the wrong direction. 

As no other settings had been touched between these two events I figured there must be something going on in the software itself.  I then downloaded a fresh version of Mach3 and installed it under a different directory on my computer.  Doing that somehow turned both the original and the new one to demo versions. 

Has anyone ever had either of these things happen?