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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC router stopped and won't respond to Mach3

« on: January 24, 2017, 10:34:49 AM »

Quite right, it's a  Campbell Designs board.

The only thing I have spotted so far is that your Outputs settings are incorrect. Disable all outputs except the Charge Pump (which is set to port 1, pin 17) then see if that makes any difference.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC router stopped and won't respond to Mach3

« on: January 24, 2017, 01:36:41 AM »

We need a bit more information.

I don't think you have the correct pin configuration for Motor Outputs but this relates to the make of controller.
What make and model controller (the bit that drives the stepper motors) are you using ?
A picture may help.
What make and model Breakout Board are you using ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor on CNC not running but running onscreen in MACH3

« on: January 24, 2017, 01:20:40 AM »

Is the stepper motor for the axis that has quit moving making a whining noise ?

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Unstable pulsing under Windows 7

« on: January 23, 2017, 05:06:03 AM »

You may be lucky. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motherboards And Mach3, questions..

« on: January 23, 2017, 02:24:15 AM »

Mach3 seems to work best with the older PC's (~1GHz) so I don't think you would notice any difference between 2GHz and 3GHz.
What I have found to be more important is a PCI graphics card with 1GB or greater memory (Mach3 is heavy on graphics and when it comes to large files, turning off the toolpath display may be an advantage).

Tweakie.

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Mach Screens / Re: Key simulators

« on: January 23, 2017, 01:32:42 AM »

I would be most grateful if you would zip it and send to my email (address below my avatar).

Tweakie.

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FAQs / Re: Multiple Wizards-How?

« on: January 22, 2017, 03:23:02 PM »

My solution is to  create a separate Gcode program for each different operation then run them consecutively after changing tools etc. (take care to use the same datum [X0,Y0] for each separate program).

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Unstable pulsing under Windows 7

« on: January 22, 2017, 03:18:02 PM »

Very very basically there is an incompatibility -  laptops use various power saving features and Mach3, when using the parallel port, places a high demand on processor and graphics. I have one old laptop that works beautifully using the parallel port and two newer laptops that just don't work well with pmcia parallel port cards. This situation was discovered way back by Artsoft - the result is that laptops are not supported for parallel port operation.

Tweakie.

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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.