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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 07:46:30 AM »

I presume you have checked that you have 115V or 240V power going to Texas board and that the fuse F1 is intact (test with multimeter).

Tweakie.

5002

General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Dro's as calculator to dro input.

« on: October 03, 2011, 07:16:15 AM »

Hey Rich,

I didn't even know that thread existed. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 06:38:18 AM »

Perhaps crossed purposes here 

Do the leds on the Texas Micro board operate correctly ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Printer Port Problems

« on: October 03, 2011, 06:32:08 AM »

Rupert,

Run 'Driver Test.exe' from the Mach folder - this should ensure the drivers are loaded.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 02:48:56 AM »

Are the LED's on the PCB operating correctly ??  (do they come on and show CW rotation etc when spindle is turned on/off within Mach - M3 / M5).

Also it is important that you are using the licensed version of Mach and not the Demo version.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is it possible to run Mach3 from a USB port?

« on: October 03, 2011, 02:36:12 AM »

It sure is Jim but you need to use an external motion card such as the Smooth Stepper  http://warp9td.com/
There are others which do the same job (+/- certain functions).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scale involuntarily flipping between negative and positive while running.

« on: October 01, 2011, 07:09:58 AM »

LOL - I reckon your 4 digits of precision is a tad on the conservative side...

Ian

I think it is his Hive mind Ian. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scale involuntarily flipping between negative and positive while running.

« on: September 30, 2011, 11:56:32 AM »

Jasura,

If you could possibly post your .xml  it may help us get to resolving this problem.

Thanks.

Tweakie.

5009

General Mach Discussion / Re: Scale involuntarily flipping between negative and positive while running.

« on: September 30, 2011, 03:41:35 AM »

This has been discussed in another thread, which I can't find now I want it but this problem crept in with the latest or last but one Mach revision and sometimes occurs when an error in the GCode is encountered. It only affects the X Axis scale DRO and can be triggered by an unrecognised GCode or multiple instances of the same code such as the M10 / M11 combination.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Wher to purchase motors, drives and breackout boards

« on: September 28, 2011, 08:42:04 AM »

Where about are you in the world?

I think you are in the right part of the world Hood - Illinois comes to mind 

Tweakie.