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Galil / Re: Anyone have older revision firmware for DMC40x0 controllers?

« on: April 26, 2021, 05:08:50 PM »

I had tried a USB cable, in addition to an ethernet cable, but I did not try the DB9 serial connection.  I am certain your advice will help someone in the future, so you might consider providing some extra details about flashing the firmware through a serial connection for the sake of posterity.  (E.g., did you use the UPGD jumper, did it work through the latest version of the Galil Suite, etc.,.)   

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Galil / Re: Anyone have older revision firmware for DMC40x0 controllers?

« on: February 06, 2021, 01:53:29 PM »

ever get this ironed out?

i went through this a while back and once i got through it it was rather simple.

No, I never got it working.  I might not have dropped my DMC-4143 in the trash if you had spoken up 30 days earlier.  Oh well.    I replaced it with the Hicon Integra 7866 from Vital Systems and I should have done it sooner.  When I was first deciding which motor controller to get I went with the Galil because Mach offered the paid plugin.  My original thought was that it would be the better supported option because you were paying for the plugin.  I was mistaken.  Mach is more interested in Mach, than in supporting your Galil, and Galil cares so little about Mach that they won't bother making a plugin.  (It's telling that Galil's "support" contact is their head of sales.)  Vital Systems, as well as the other motion control manufacturers who make their own plugins have a vested interest in making sure their controllers work with Mach.  It would have been nice if that revelation had occurred prior to my buying the Galil.         

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HiCON Motion Controller / 7866 Dimensions

« on: September 29, 2020, 11:11:43 AM »

What are the dimensions of the 7866?  I couldn’t find the specs on the Vital Systems website.

I am looking at replacing a Galil DMC-4133 with the Hicon Integra 7866 but am unsure of its mounting requirements.  Is there hardware and mounting diagram available that I overlooked?

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Galil / Re: Anyone have older revision firmware for DMC40x0 controllers?

« on: September 16, 2020, 12:31:20 PM »

Why?

Galil won’t provide service or support for second hand units.  I recently made the mistake of trying the 1.3 update on my DMC-4143 because I was having issues with the latest Mach4 Galil plugin.  Now I’m stuck with a firmware error that I can’t fix.  I’ve tried reverting to 1.2f, but can’t get it to work.  I was hoping I could pay for Galil to fix the firmware issue, but Galil’s response was sorry, buy a new unit. 

If anyone knows the steps for pushing a hex firmware file to a Galil DMC-4143, I’m all ears.  I’ve flashed chips with an arduino (with a little handholding), but there is almost no information about Galil boards outside Galil’s own website.  The manual says to use the Galil tools suite to flash the firmware if there is an error and contact Galil if that doesn’t work.  Whelp, tried those.  Didn’t work.  UPGD jumper you say?  Tried that too.  Unless theres a special boot upload reset cycle for the upgrade, that didn’t work either.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing

« on: September 09, 2020, 11:19:49 PM »

The probing problems I have had with Mach4 are enough to make anyone crazy.   I have a different controller (Galil), but it will make you go mad.  The best advice I’ve seen is to try a gcode probing routine to see if that works.  If so, it’s a Mach script issue.  If not, it could be any number of things including electrical noise issues.  If it works fine one day and stops working the next, then you are in the same boat as I.

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Galil / Re: Galil controller compatability (what works with the plugin)

« on: July 08, 2019, 08:51:51 PM »

https://www.machsupport.com/ftp/Mach4/Plugins/Galil/mcGalil.zip

That is a newer plugin.  Just unzip the contents into the plugins directory. 

Steve

I noticed with the latest version an option for "Use Direct Data Record" is now available.  Any chance it will cause probing to miraculously begin to work?

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Galil / Re: Limit Issue

« on: July 07, 2019, 01:16:49 PM »

I was having a similar problem that turned out to be a loose wire on a limit switch.  I have the DMC 4133.  If you turn off soft limits does the problem disappear?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 does not recognize inputs from Galil I/O controller

« on: April 14, 2019, 01:15:18 PM »

I didn’t realize the Galil had I/O expansion options for the DMC.  What is the setup like between the two?  Ethernet from DMC into Rio and then Ethernet from Rio into network? 

When you use the Galil suite software are you required to connect to two devices (DMC and Rio), or one (DMC)? 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Screen Set Property Descriptions

« on: February 09, 2019, 07:01:40 PM »

I have found that when editing a screen set the easiest way to make sweeping stylistic changes is to edit the screen.xml file from within the screen.set file.  However, I am not certain what some of the available properties are.  Would someone please provide some clarity on these properties? 

I would also be okay with someone pointing me to a reference where all of this is documented?

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           <mcLed>
              <Property name="Name">ledLimit--C</Property>
              <Property name="Instance">0</Property>
              <Property name="Shape">0</Property>
What is the instance property?  The only option in the screen editor dropdown is 0.

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            <mcStaticText>
              <Property name="Name">lblLimit--C</Property>
              <Property name="Font">0;-9;0;0;0;400;0;0;0;1;0;0;2;32;Consolas</Property>
              <Property name="Bg Color"></Property>
              <Property name="Label Code">-1</Property>
              <Property name="SysVar">0</Property>
              <Property name="SysParam">0</Property>
            </mcStaticText>

What are the various font property values?

Is there a way to set the Bg Color to transparent?  If no value is given it will adopt the Bg Color of the tab element. 

Is it possible to create new label codes?  If so, where should those be pasted?

What are the SysVar and SysParam properties?

Lastly, is there a way to prevent DRO elements from resizing the font when I try to resize the element?

Thanks!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 LED's

« on: February 09, 2019, 02:07:15 PM »

HL-What font are you using in your screen?  I'm a fan of slashed zeros.  Consolas font uses slashed zeros.