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Brains Development / Help Please

« on: October 11, 2013, 08:50:43 AM »

 I am trying to get a brain to work that will:

When input 1 is low then button press "cycle Start"

Then,

When input 1 is high, then button press "Cycle Stop"

I know this is probably very simple, but I have been trying for two days to get it working with no luck.

Thanks in advance!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: June 12, 2007, 07:52:01 AM »

Hello all,

Well you asked for it,, I am new to the hobby and I probably will have a lot of questions. As an introduction, I am 55 years old and live in Ohio. I work for the local government with the Handicaped and Retarded. My hobbies are Radio Control Airplanes, My Wurlitzer 105 Band Organ that I build from scratch and general wood working. I have made most of the furnature in my home. Mostly from old orange crates scavenged from the local grocery store (    ) . And I have 7 grandchildren,, if that wasnt enough to keep me busy..

I am starting with a home brew machine and have it up and running, well, moving,, . I am using Mach 3 2.0 and am having a problem getting the machine to move to the home switches. I have downloaded the tutorial on homing and followed it to the best of my ability. ( it really would help if the video could be paused as something is being done)

I have the switches monted. I have them wired from pin 11 for X and pin 12 for Y with the other  side of the switch to ground (pin 18-25).
I can open the diagnostic screen and when the swithes are flipped the yellow lights come on in the proper places. When I go to the program run screen and push the ref all home switch nothing happens, well the readouts all go to zero but no motors move. any ideas what could be the problem? If I load a g code the motors will run the program so I know the motors work.


Randy C