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General Mach Discussion / Re: ShuttlePro VID Number?

« on: April 09, 2010, 01:04:47 AM »

Forgot to mention, in the shuttle plugin config page you need to select PID_5F3 as the type near the bottom left hand corner.

Looking from outside the box it would be lower right.
I have 2 shuttle pro v1 silver and they do not act the same, even though they are the same model.
First one with a 6' cord works fine without drivers and just the plugin in mach3.(X2 Mini-Mill -/ 600mhz / 768 ram / xp pro /
then I needed another PC for my other machine so I can use them at the same time(HomeBrew 24" x 36" router)
(gateway 1.8ghz / 512 ram / xp pro /)

That's when I purchased the second shuttle pro.(This one only has a 3' cord.)
I tested it on the X2 PC that was shared with the router and it didn't work.
So, I then proceeded to test them on the gateway PC and mach didn't recognize either one, to make a long story and days of confusion,
I downloaded the latest software from the Contour site ( http://retail.contourdesign.com/?/products/23 ) ( Shuttle Driver v2.7.8 in the pull down ) and installed it and Mach still didn't see it. Then I had to manually install an HID compliant driver from the list of devices in XP for it because it kept asking for a driver everytime I rebooted, and select PID_5F3 in the plugin in Mach3 and it now works. And on a 3rd PC just the shuttle software was installed with the mach plugin to get it to work. Hope this helps some one else with the similar problems.

Tom

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General Mach Discussion / Re: spindle speed encoder conection

« on: December 15, 2007, 08:24:03 AM »

Hood,
 Thanks for the reply. I was sort of expecting that but I just wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something somewhere.

Thanks
Tom

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General Mach Discussion / spindle speed encoder conection

« on: December 14, 2007, 10:28:35 PM »

I have been having a time trying to get my spindle up to speed with the cncpc c6 board. I can get the spindle to start but can't get it up to speed.
tried the spindle tuning and it takes off full throttle and won't turn off. I click the spindle off and it goes full out and when I click it again it slows down(the on state)click the down rate and shuts off. so I thought if I put an encoder on the motor I could have control. Question is how do I tell mach3 where to look , I connected encoder outputs A to pin12 and B to pin 11.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Loosing steps and stalling Help Please

« on: October 21, 2007, 12:37:27 AM »

I have a brewington driver that is similar to the hobbycnc, and I had to check the sherline 1/2 pulse mode in mach3 where it worked fine without it in mach2.

Tom