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HiCON Motion Controller / Converted Syil x4+ to hicon Integra

« on: September 25, 2017, 03:36:27 PM »

So... 5 Chinese boards removed & one Integra Installed. Few problems;

I was hoping to get the spindle encoder (Heidenhain ROD426 512) to govern the spindle speed. I Set M3 S300 and get 324 give or take 3. Equally high, by varying amounts up to 5000rpm.

It could be by chance that I'm set up correctly, but wondered whether I might have gotten closer if all was set up correctly?

FYI - The VFD is Analogue 0-10v & it's a Delta VFD-M. It's a virgin 7766 with no addons.

Pete

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: VistaCNC Pendant - Running out of luck...

« on: December 15, 2016, 09:21:00 PM »

With version 186 of the Mach4 plugin for SS, Andy introduced the micro step functionality. This cured the problem above.

Re: SmartBoB. Wasn't that comfortable with the Pin flexibility (didn't match my BoB pinout & whilst a great device, I stayed with the Ethernet SS). Not sure if SmartBoB also provides a similar micro step function.

Pete

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Mach4 General Discussion / VistaCNC Pendant - Running out of luck...

« on: September 11, 2016, 03:17:24 AM »

I've been searching far and wide to answer a few questions, but I've run out of luck.

Mach4 Build 2914, Windows 10 Pro on Surface 1. Syil X4+ with PMDX 411 (Firmware 0.46.221). P1A4S pendant connected via USB. Pendant upgraded to latest Mach4 firmware,

(1) The Vista CNC plugin: It has a menu item under configure -> Plugins . I press it, it does nothing.

Is it supposed to? That's different from the Mach3 version.

(2) Documentation is scant, but found a thread that states the following needs to be done: Add an entry under Mach Config -> MPG's (Enabled, Encoder: PSPendant/MPG1, Counts per detent=1, Acc%=100,Vel%=100). The plugin 'seems' to enable Input signals on the Input Signals tab for the Jog entries.


It doesn't make any difference as to whether those entries are there or not, the pendant works (Badly - more of that later). Have I missed something obvious?
On the input signals, the device and input names are blank. That doesn't sound right, does it? I can select P2SPendant for the device name, but the Input names show a list of Input0 to Input28 - Pretty obscure & would require guess work / trial and error. Should these have values & what should they be?

(3) Given above, all of the functions of the pendant surprisingly works, but the jog wheel has a strange behaviour.

It feels sluggish, The table moves & the movement is rough and the positioning is not exact, it seems to overrun a little (feeling like a buffer of moves is being executed after I stop turning the wheel). On Mach3, positioning was beautiful, the table and wheel operated in perfect harmony. Something's clearly wrong - anyone have thoughts? Incidentally - moving the table with the keyboard works just fine.

I'd dearly love for someone to share their thoughts, especially if this is a config, missing something obvious (Windows C++ libraries, secret button that I haven't found yet, etc)

Please help.


Pete (UK)