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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: XHC USB Motion Controller Speed Input

« on: November 02, 2019, 11:59:10 AM »

Hi Karol

I never got a reply from the producer, but after a lot of messing about realised that the thing cannot accept a pulse input.
It can only send an output to a variable frequency drive (VFD) and Mach 3 assumes the speed is as set.

I eventually gave up with it and Mach 3 (glad I didn't buy the full version of Mach 3).

I then went on to convert my mill to cnc but using Arduino, GRBL and Fusion 360 all of which works great.

Sorry I can't really help.

Ted

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Others / Re: Ezilathe - Tools for the CNC lathe

« on: June 03, 2017, 05:57:42 AM »

Thanks for the update, have downloaded it and looking forward to giving it a go.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: XHC USB Motion Controller Speed Input

« on: May 26, 2017, 09:07:32 AM »

Thanks Alex

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Others / Re: Ezilathe - Tools for the CNC lathe

« on: April 12, 2017, 09:24:30 AM »

Hi. I've managed to fix it by downloading V1.5.2 from cnczone, all seems to work now so a bit of learning with a cup of tea and a biscuit or two is now required.

Many Thanks

Ted

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: XHC USB Motion Controller Speed Input

« on: April 12, 2017, 04:58:39 AM »

Hi Tweakie,

Thanks for the response, unfortunately this is the guy I have emailed twice with no response, maybe he is on holiday or something. I'll send another email to them soon.

Ted

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Others / Re: Ezilathe - Tools for the CNC lathe

« on: April 11, 2017, 12:29:59 PM »

I have just downloaded EziLathe after watching your Video, it looks great by the way.

I am having a problem, when I load it I get the following error message.   "Materialm.txt-Error on Line Aluminium,152,198,259,305,0.9" and hence I don't get the Material data in the Feeds/Speeds dialogue box.

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
 

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / XHC USB Motion Controller Speed Input

« on: April 11, 2017, 08:58:18 AM »

I am trying to set up a Lathe using a XHC 3 axis USB Motion Controller with Mach 3. Everything works great but I cannot get Mach 3 to read a consistent index pulse, indicated speed bounces around plus or minus 50 rpm of actual speed.

I am using a Hall Effect detector with an external 5v supply and the signal connected to Input 15 (not that it seems to matter which input I use as all result in the same problem). Mach 3 is running on a 64 bit Windows 7 computer (but have also tried it on a 32 bit XP computer). I have the Index debounce set to zero and Spindle Speed Averaging ON.

I have measured the pulse frequency from the detector and it is stable and accurately gives the actual spindle speed.

I have emailed the manufacturer of the motion controller twice in the last couple of weeks but have had no response at all.

I am fairly convinced that I have either wired the detector wrong or I have set something wrong in Mach 3.

If anybody has any idea how to solve this I would be most grateful as I'm desperate to have a go at Metric threading on my old Smart & Brown Sable Imperial lathe (now a CNC Lathe!!).

Many Thanks.