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General Mach Discussion / Re: running mach3 off a memory stick

« on: October 17, 2019, 08:21:06 AM »

Hi Fred,

I am assuming you are meaning a USB Memory Stick in which case NO.

You could try but you are certain to run into problems.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up Longs Motor breakout board

« on: October 17, 2019, 02:22:45 AM »

In your attached .xml you have a conflict of pins where pins 6 and 9 are both defined twice so that is unlikely to work.

You perhaps need to set-up all your Ports and Pins as shown in the Longs Motor .pdf you have linked then attach your .xml (it needs to have a unique name to attach)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up Longs Motor breakout board

« on: October 17, 2019, 01:47:32 AM »

Can you attach your <profile>. xml file then we can see exactly how you have things set-up.

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Spanish / Re: mach3 +nema23+tbb6600

« on: October 17, 2019, 01:31:53 AM »

With bobcadcam I generate the G code for embossing from an image, on three axes. The progress of the program is every 0.3 mm in X. It jumps from an X, say X-250 to X-500. It does not execute the Y or Z commands, but continues in X-250.3 by performing the Y and Z commands corresponding to X-500. This he does in several points of X.
I run the same program again and the jumps are executed in different Xs.
I hope you have explained to me and understand my problem.
Can you suggest the cause?

Hi Fernado,

Can you check that you are using a genuine Mach3 license.

(If you are using an invalid, cracked, or hacked license, Mach may intentionally corrupt your data so as to not let you use your equipment).


Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Another tool zeroing...but unique...

« on: October 15, 2019, 01:55:14 AM »

So with your probe connected as ZASto has suggested you are still not able to make any motor axis movement ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z-axis conditional displacement

« on: October 15, 2019, 01:36:37 AM »

Mach3 was never designed to handle conditional Gcode so it is not a task it would perform well.
Although…
I am sure that the output from a load cell could be used in a servo feedback loop to control torque independently from the controller.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Another tool zeroing...but unique...

« on: October 14, 2019, 07:35:08 AM »

Check you have your Probe Input (Mach3 Ports & Pins) Enabled, set to Port#1, Pin11, Active Low.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Another tool zeroing...but unique...

« on: October 14, 2019, 05:03:16 AM »

Thank you....I tried this approach to no positive end...it seemed as there was no power going to the circuit through the probe...

I think you need to apply the 12V to 24V power to your breakout board for the inputs to work ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Parallel Port Output Voltage

« on: October 14, 2019, 01:41:46 AM »

Excellent 

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: October 14, 2019, 01:40:00 AM »

Hi,

In the latest plugin (previously linked) I have removed the 40uS pulse box because, as you have discovered, it never actually did anything.

The plugin has a maximum 40uS trigger pulse width (at 25kHz Kernel speed) which approximates to 30% of the laser’s maximum available output. With my 40 Watt that is no problem but you would need to significantly reduce the feed-rate for a 2 Watt laser to have a similar effect.

Unfortunately this 40uS pulse width cannot be increased within the plugin software but an external ‘digital pulse stretcher’ could be constructed and used to increase the maximum pulse width up to 80uS if it was thought necessary.

Hope this helps,

Tweakie.