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General Mach Discussion / Re: only one of the Y motors is malfunctioning

« on: January 22, 2017, 03:00:47 PM »

I have sent you a PM.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: only one of the Y motors is malfunctioning

« on: January 22, 2017, 06:10:03 AM »

Please post your .xml file this will enable us to check your Mach3 settings.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: only one of the Y motors is malfunctioning

« on: January 22, 2017, 05:37:25 AM »

each one of the gantry motors has its own driver but signals to the two drivers are parallel and come from the (Y) Chanel.

If you are still connecting it that way (not recommended) then maybe the Y Channel does not have sufficient voltage/current to drive two motor controllers correctly ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: only one of the Y motors is malfunctioning

« on: January 22, 2017, 04:33:20 AM »

Perhaps carefully check the connections and cable to that dodgy motor - could be a high resistance or even open circuit.

Tweakie.

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Mach Screens / Re: Key simulators

« on: January 22, 2017, 04:23:33 AM »

I do like that Willie G Skull.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Trispokedovetiles: CNC code to cut tiles

« on: January 22, 2017, 03:34:04 AM »

Still thinking about this design for use as a jigsaw puzzle…

The puzzle would need to be round or hexagonal in shape to provide the maximum number of identical pieces but assuming the puzzle’s picture was printed both sides then each piece could have just one of 6 x the number of complete dovetiles as a possible position.

Just taking a snapshot of one dovetile bounded by a circle perhaps illustrates the possibility.

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Unstable pulsing under Windows 7

« on: January 22, 2017, 02:23:33 AM »

I think you were just lucky to get it working the first time. Laptops (docking station or not) are not recommended when using the parallel port. The recommended way  with Win7 and a laptop is to use an external motion controller (ESS, UC100, etc.).

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My first attempt at a CNC build.

« on: January 22, 2017, 02:01:06 AM »

You cannot drive your stepper motors directly from that board.
The Common Gnd, Step, Direction and Enable signals from each of the 5 axes are taken to suitable drivers and the stepper motors connected to them.

Tweakie.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Warp9 smoothstepper or XHC smoothstepper

« on: January 21, 2017, 10:44:20 AM »

I am probably bias because I use a Warp 9 Smooth Stepper. In it’s favour is the support given by the forum http://www.warp9td.com/index.php/kunena/index and the  multiple tutorials and video’s on the Warp 9 website regarding it’s setup and use.
The ESS can be used with Mach3 and Mach4 and it’s software / firmware is continually being updated to follow the Mach4 developments.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Whoops !

« on: January 20, 2017, 07:02:47 AM »

Hi BluePinnacle,

Excellent video/film archive, thanks for sharing.

It’s a couple of years since I have seen a working M.A.R. Although it was just a 6 phase it still hissed like a pit of snakes but just from the appearance I can understand why the Decca Type 80 radar engineers called it the Mekon.  

Tweakie.