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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 & ESS Setup Problems -

« on: May 20, 2015, 01:27:56 AM »

I had issues with my spindle barely working... it would start to turn then stop. The problem for me turned out to be a setting in the machine.ini file i had to change... PWM frequency i think it was... had to drop it from 1000 to 900. After doing that, my issue was solved. As for spindle settings in ESS, you only map spindle in Mach 4, PWM is set in the ESS Plug, but you dont set it in Mach 4. I have all of my settings written down at my shop and will look tomorrow and post... Yes, PWM is functional in the current ESS Plug in.  I fought with issues for weeks, but finally have them all working perfectly. Also "sometimes" after making setting changes you need to exit out of Mach 4 and restart it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ESS problem

« on: April 30, 2015, 06:36:46 PM »

Glad to hear you got it working... some of these issues can be frustrating! I have traced my problem to power feeding home sensors. Something is causing the ESS to stop communicating. Remove power from sensors and it works. Must be a voltage issue that may require a resistor to be added...  I am running the demo version right now and i know it has an approx 20 minute time limit to it. I am holding off on buying the license until i can get everything working... then will buy it immediately. I would hate to purchase it then fight thru all the glitches and bugs. I have only 3 axis and 3 home sensors so i cant really see them putting a limit on that much in the demo version.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: ESS problem

« on: April 30, 2015, 01:30:33 PM »

Not sure what might be causing your issue, but the ESS on my machine just up and lost connectivity... Wakeup client wont respond and it appears to have lost its addess of 10.9.9.9  even if i type it in it wont save it. It was working fine, was configuring Limit switches and it up and quit. Very Strange!

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Mach4 Videos / Re: ESS and Mach4 Setup

« on: April 24, 2015, 09:27:57 PM »

Awesome!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: computer for M4/M3

« on: April 06, 2015, 04:47:40 PM »

Thanks for that info Gerry!!  I will definitely look into that... Windows 8 is a royal pain.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: computer for M4/M3

« on: April 06, 2015, 01:51:18 PM »

I have Mach 4 and ESS loading and running fine on an Acer Aspire Laptop with Windows 8.1  I hate windows 8 though, might downgrade to Windows 7 or pray the Windows 10 is better when it is released later this year.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Model of Electric Guitar

« on: March 20, 2015, 04:37:51 PM »

you will find some here   http://www.projectguitar.com/ref/2010/dxf.htm  there are also more if you do a search at grabcad, Here is an example and link  https://grabcad.com/library/dxf-file-of-60s-fender-strat-body