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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 enable

« on: March 27, 2010, 08:57:09 AM »

Hood

I tried the setting you suggested it did not work. do I need to configure an output port for this setting other than my enable pin.


thanks ABHELI

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 enable

« on: March 26, 2010, 09:17:07 AM »

hI

 I knew about the enable /disable with the reset.  Is it possible that when the program is finished that it will automaticly disable the drives
  Abheli

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 enable

« on: March 25, 2010, 09:04:35 AM »

Hi All

Does Mach 3 have the capability to send an enable signal to my drive board. What I want is for my drivers to be powered down before and after I run a program.  My drivers are a unipolar with power resistors that are always on. the boards do have an enable pin. the addition of 5 volts shuts the boards down. I searched the Mach settings and could not figure it out. Is it possible?

abheli

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Candidate ? ? ?

« on: April 03, 2008, 11:49:04 AM »

Hi All

The Pixies were designed to be used on Torque drive amps. they may of may not work on velocity drives   my Bridgeport had velocity drives. They worked but was not able to get them tuned properly. They ran the program OK but there was no accuracy.

Doug

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Candidate ? ? ?

« on: April 03, 2008, 09:59:03 AM »

Hi All

I finished up a Series 1 interact with Geckos and mach 3 (Almost the identical machine pictured)  Works perfect  Yes it is a little slower. but how often do you need 100 IPM + if it is a hobby machine I highly recomend the conversion. A production machine maybe not. it was quite a complicated swap. if you don't know a lot about wiring you may have some trouble.  3 gecko 340s  80V power supply and a cnc 4pc breakout board and the origional SEM motors. the resolvers need to be changed to encoders   I got them from US Digital.  I first used the origional drives with a Pixie step direction converter that was a waste of a month.
  Doug Schwochert

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Error when machine goes back to part origin after job

« on: February 02, 2008, 02:39:14 PM »

Hi All   it is a servo system   what are you using for motor drivers. Geckos?

abheli