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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 IPC Documentation/examples?

« on: November 28, 2018, 07:03:58 PM »

I'm interested in getting Mach4 to talk to other processes running on the same PC -- I think this may be the easiest way for me to get my HuangYang VFD working, and a couple of other projects I'm interested in.

Is there any documentation/code examples for this?

Off topic: is the search for these forums going to be fixed?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 24, 2018, 03:49:37 AM »

Thousands of people are using Huanyang VFD's with modbus plugins, so I don't believe that modbus support in the VFD has been an issue for many years

Gerry, I hope that is correct. But as far as I know Mach 3 only works with HuanYang VFDs using an unsupported, closed source driver.
I have not found any instructions for setting up Mach 4 with a HuanYang VFD.

The Mach 4 documentation does not cover modbus -- the "Mach 4 Scripting Manual" ends with a heading reading "Modbus" with no content following it.

I'm not trying to be snarky, and I would love to have answers to any of the three questions I asked in my original post.

I'm an experienced software developer and I have the documentation for HuanYang VFDs -- if there is any documentation about writing modbus drivers for Mach4 I would be interested in having a crack at it.

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: TUTORIAL FOR SETTING UP MACH4 and MODBUS RTU / TCP and a HITACHI WJ200 VFD

« on: November 20, 2018, 08:40:40 PM »

Awesome! i was trying to get modbus to work with my Hunayang VFD today to no luck!

Have you made any progress with this? I have mine working on Mach3 and am trying to make the transition to Mach4.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 20, 2018, 12:19:29 AM »

'modes' should be 'modbus' throughout -- damn autocorrect

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach 4, Modbus and HuanYang VFDs

« on: November 19, 2018, 08:34:45 PM »

I am moving from Mach3 to Mach4, and the final thing I need to get working is the Modbus connection to my HuanYang VFD.

I have not tried to configure it using the standard Mach4 modes plugin as I believe that the HuanYang protocol has some subtle differences.

With Mach 3 I am using a 3rd party plugin which unfortunately has never had its source code released.

So my questions are:

1. Is the Mach4 modes plugin known to work, or known to not work, with HuanYang VFDs?
2. If it doesn't work, is there any existing option for HuanYang VFDs?
3. If there isn't any existing solution, is the source code of the Mach4 modes plugin available, so that I can make it work with a HuanYang VFD?

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: Huanyang VFD controller plugin

« on: April 13, 2016, 07:57:47 PM »

To answer my own question: Yes it works with Windows 10, but you need to install the correct DLL (A C++ runtime, I think) Unfortunately, I installed a bunch of programs at once, one of which must have installed the required runtime, but I don't know which it was :-(

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: Huanyang VFD controller plugin

« on: April 13, 2016, 12:37:32 AM »

Has anyone used this plugin successfully on Windows 10?

If so, which runtime libraries did you need to install?

Thanks,
  Tom

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 'Freeing' an axis temporarily?

« on: November 21, 2013, 06:49:04 AM »

Thanks Hood -- I wasn't aware of that microstep issue. I'll bite the bullet and get a touch plate set up.

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General Mach Discussion / 'Freeing' an axis temporarily?

« on: November 21, 2013, 05:26:03 AM »

I'm using a Chinese 6040 with an ethernet smoothstepper and a G540.

I like to manually adjust my z-axis to zero when I start a job and when I change tools.

At present I click the 'Reset' button in Mach3, which stops my G540 holding the steppers, do the adjustment, then click reset again.

This seems like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut -- I just want to free a single axis for a few moments.

Is there any way to do that?

Thanks,
  Tom

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Finished Plugins for Download / Re: A new Huanyang VFD plugin

« on: November 10, 2013, 05:31:27 AM »

It turns out that my problem was that I hadn't cleared the "Disable Spindle Relays" checkbox -- clearing that made M5 work and reversed the direction of the spindle, so everything is working for me now.