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Galil / Re: Galil DMC1880 no limits - Encoders

« on: December 16, 2014, 03:53:48 PM »

In my instance I never did get things to work with Win7. I spent many hours trouble shooting the problem. Compatibility modes, and other possible fixes I found here did not solve the issue. After finally switching to XP my verdict was a software/ hardware conflict between Win7 and my mother board. The board is a Tyan, a good enterprise class board, but older and I believe the drivers available did not properly interface the board from Win7. Ill try Win7 again when I upgrade the computer but that will be some distance in the future as the machine runs just fine under XP and the computer has well more than enough power to run things.     

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Galil / Re: Homing not backing off limmits

« on: June 21, 2014, 02:21:06 PM »

Found it. It was as I expected something simple. I did not have jumpers from the limit inputs to the home inputs. Couple short pieces of wire and it all works now. Time to make some chips.

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Galil / Re: Galil DMC1880 no limits - Encoders

« on: June 21, 2014, 01:07:36 PM »

I dug out an old copy of XP, loaded it up and everything worked. I suspect there was a hardware problem when running under Win7 with my motherboard.   

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Galil / Homing not backing off limmits

« on: June 21, 2014, 01:01:14 PM »

So Ive got my machine pretty well all set up, everything seams to work as it should, limits all activate the LEDs in Mach when tripped and stop motion in that direction while allowing movement back off the limit switch under command or jog. On the Galil side, quires to the limit switches all show the correct state for either normal or tripped.

The problem is when trying to home the axises. Pushing the "Home All" button will cause the Z axis to run to the top and trip the limit but then it just stops and does not pull back off the limit. Galil shows the limit as tripped, but the LED in Mach will not indicate a tripped limit until resetting Mach. Once reset you can use jog to back off the limit without any problem. I get the same result with the other axises if I try and home the axises independently from the diagnostics page.

Im using the limit switches as homes, and have the "use limits as homes" box checked in the settings, and have the input pins set up as per the plugin manual. I have also tried debounce settings up to 20K without any luck, and the switches are new. The limit switch wires are all shielded and run well away from any other wiring so I dont think it is noise.

I suspect that it is just a setting somewhere, or something simple that I am overlooking but Ive run out of ideas as to what.  

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Galil / Re: Galil DMC1880 no limits - Encoders

« on: May 26, 2014, 09:42:26 PM »

After more testing it seams that I can only send commands out from Mach, there is no feed back from Galil to Mach.

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Galil / Galil DMC1880 no limits - Encoders

« on: May 25, 2014, 11:54:45 PM »

Im trying to get Mach setup to work with my Galil DMC1880 and ICM1900. The card itself seams to be set up correctly as I can issue commands from Galiltools and everything behaves as it should. Im just having problems with Mach. I have the plugin installed, and the card is listed in the plugin config. I can use the Jog function and I can issue G code movement commands from the MIDI and the motors will respond, however the encoder readouts do not show the movement. Also in the diagnostics screen none of the limits will trigger when the limit switches are activated,even though Galiltools does report them as being activated.

This is being run on a Win7 x86 system.

Anyone have any idea what might be wrong?