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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hooking up mach3 to vfd

« on: October 14, 2016, 11:23:18 AM »

Ill try and find franco. Ive read the manual but dont understand Most of if. Haha.

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General Mach Discussion / Hooking up mach3 to vfd

« on: October 13, 2016, 04:28:30 PM »

Hey guys. Im trying to hook up mach3 to my vfd. Mach3 turns it on and off allready so what do i need to do for it to control the spindle speed.
I have a shoptask bridge mill converted to cnc and a reliance electric md60 vfd. Right now mach3 turns the spindle on and off and i can control thespeed  with an exturnal pot.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: October 13, 2016, 04:20:59 PM »

No its not a chinese controler. I did not build it someone else did though. I have acabinet atached to the side of the machine that has the computer mother board   Power supplies and it has gecko6203 steeper drivers. I think i had a corrupted gcode file. Renamed the file and resaved it and has been running fine.  Hopefuly i have no more problems with it. Ill let u know if it happens again.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 30, 2016, 02:57:03 PM »

I cut the velocity down by a third  and still had a problem. Resaved the program under a diffrent name instead of saving over the old program and ran it 3 times with out a problem. Also made a new program today and has been fine. Hopefully there was just a glitch in the program.

Fingers crossed.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 29, 2016, 08:22:38 PM »

It has gecko stepper drivers on it. Its on a shoptask mill and lathe converted to cnc.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 29, 2016, 12:20:55 PM »

I save the program to the stick then load it to mach3 directly from the stick. I would run the program once and was usualy fine. The problems would usually start after it was finished the program and would regenerate for a new piece of material

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 28, 2016, 05:08:50 PM »

Could this problem have been caused by a bad program. Ive been useing a usb stick to transferprograms to the machine and ive been changing the programs alittle and saveing over the old ones with the same name. I resaved the program under a new name on the usb stick and ran it 3 time with no problem yet. Is it possible there was an error in the programing

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 28, 2016, 04:18:06 PM »

My phone wont let me post a pic.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 28, 2016, 04:11:20 PM »

Ok reren the program. Was doing fine then it tried to cut a big chunk of the corner off rechecked my zero and x is 1.4796 off and y is -.5190. I checked the toolpath screen and there is a white line where the too went through thw material. Ill try and post pics

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine had a another brain fart.

« on: September 28, 2016, 03:48:15 PM »

What about changing the step pulse and dir pulse setting in motor tuning. I dropped the velocity down from 147 to 100 and changed step and dir pulse from 0 to 3. Im going to try that before i go switching motors out.