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General Mach Discussion / Re: "parameter is incorrect" error when I open Mach3

« on: January 25, 2023, 08:18:23 PM »

CMOS battery should be replaced every 3 years (so I hope you don't just put back the old battery).

Drained CMOS battery means the loss of date and time and BIOS parameters like port address and for older PCs loss of hard disk parameters as well.

That is (mostly) incorrect  -  A PC CMOS Battery should last at least 10 years. I have PCs' with customers over 15 years old and in 32+ years trading I've only ever replaced 2 - and they were only as a precaution.

Removing the battery does not lose Hard Drive parameters - Date & Time and some BIOS parameters do need to be re-set but that is trivial.

Are you are giving a opinion based on MOSTLY ignorance?
I sell PCs and support customer's  CNC machines and I know what I am saying. One of my customer is even using DOS + Novell + msbasic to manufacture CAMSHAFTS. I had to fix a huge CNC Mill because battery was drained and Machine won't boot. Replacing the battery didn't help because HDD parameter had to be manually added from the HDD label.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PWM bumped to minimum setting

« on: January 25, 2023, 02:48:21 PM »

Hello

CnC and Mach3 newbie here.
I am contrlling my spindle with the 0-10 Volt signal.
When I try to turn on my spindle either in mach3 oder with gcode the system stop with the error: PWM Bumped to minium setting.

If someone could have a look at my xml and maybe point a if there is any bad settings it would help me a lot.

Thanks in advance.

"Base frequency" if too high means you cannot run the at a lower speed (RPM) than allowed.
Spindle will be bumped  to run at a higher RPM than your g-code S settings. So the message is just informational.
By setting my "Base frequency" to 33Hz and I can make my WATER-COOLED spindle to run at 1000 RPM minimum. But Air-cooled spindle must be restricted to a min RPM of 8,000

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "parameter is incorrect" error when I open Mach3

« on: January 25, 2023, 02:25:18 PM »

CMOS battery should be replaced every 3 years (so I hope you don't just put back the old battery).

Drained CMOS battery means the loss of date and time and BIOS parameters like port address and for older PCs loss of hard disk parameters as well.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Parallel Port issue

« on: January 20, 2023, 05:06:19 PM »

Hello. I have mach3 and breakout board with parallel port (this is the cheapest version from ali).

All i have connected and works fine, but during system boot up, the board's outputs blinking.
Vacuum's and coolant's relays are connected to outputs and starting without reason 
Also when PC is turned off couple of outputs are enable.

Should i add some electronic between PC and board or outputs and relays?

I tried pull down signal with resistor 4k7ohm but it nothing changed.
In system registry ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Parport ) also i changed "Start" variable to 4.

Does anybody know how to resolve this? 

I know this is question is old but my answer could help many others also

My Solution:
1. Make use of the enable feature in the BOB to enable the stepper-motor drivers.
(I use pin 14)
2. Disable the parallel driver in Windows 7 device manager (MACH3 does not need windows driver enabled)
3. Use the VFD Inverter output relay to only turn on coolant when Spindle is spinning.

Solved all the  "Parallel Port issues"
(this solution works 100% in Win7 but unfortunately does not work in Windows XP)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Double Ethernet cards conflict

« on: January 20, 2023, 03:34:36 PM »

The ethernet card for CS-lab controller and the controller should have manually assigned IP addresses of another subnet and without a default gateway (leave blank).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 shuts W7 Down on Startup.

« on: January 02, 2023, 04:44:51 PM »

Cannot run 64bits windows 7 if you want to use parallel port.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please

« on: December 20, 2022, 11:04:50 PM »

I am new to CNC routering amd purchased 2 machines. On is a 6090 (24” x 36”) and the other is a 1325 (48 x 96”) with auto tool changer. The 1325 isn’t unpacked as yet using the 6090 to get up to speed. Have had issues with it running on a new laptop with windows 10 and machine is USB and not serial port.
Changing the config files and all that has been difficult for someone that knows nothing. The problem I am having is the tool touch sensor won’t work. Before I tried setting up the touch sensor the digitize light would go on. When I checked just before configuring it for the probe it wasn’t turning the digitize light on any more. I have done about 10 hours of carving. I checked the one wire and it has 22.8 volts in it. I have set the ports and that as per the manufacturers specifications.
Do you think it is a controller issue or software, I am running Mach3.The Controller is a WXhc-MKX-1V-!! for Mach3

Use following to compare and correct YOUR "Probe z surface macro" script:-


'Probe z surface macro 

FeedCurrent = GetOemDRO(818) 'Get the current settings, OEM DROs (818)=Feedrate DRO
ZCurrent = GetOemDro(802) 'OEM DROs (802)=Z DRO
GageH = GetOEMDRO(1001) 'OEMDRO(1001)=Gage Block Height
ZNew = ZCurrent - 6 'probe down max. 6 inches
Code "G90F5" 'slow feed rate to 5inches/MIN
SetOemDRO(818,5)
Code "G4 P1" 'Pause 1 second to give time to position probe plate
Code "G31 Z" &ZNew
While IsMoving()
Sleep(10)
Wend
Call SetDro (2,GageH) 'DRO(2)=Z DRO
FinalMove = GageH + 1 ‘move 1 inch above gage height
Code "G0 Z" &FinalMove
Code "F" &FeedCurrent 'restore starting feed rate
SetOemDRO(818,FeedCurrent)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: button script

« on: December 20, 2022, 10:59:54 PM »

You should post in "Mach4 General Discussion" instead.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis not so random, random variance

« on: December 19, 2022, 06:10:45 PM »

Check your "safe-Z" settings.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What are Mach3 limitations regarding rtcp ?

« on: December 17, 2022, 11:11:15 PM »

I was wrong.

Thank You