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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.

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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.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hopefully getting this worked out

« on: September 26, 2011, 07:44:34 AM »

And I believe the comment doug made implied that over half the users of mach are using pirated versions so its not uncommon that the router I bought had it. And the Cam comment implied that a large percentage of problems people have had with mach has been from very expensive software that those individuals must have hack versions of or otherwise they wouldn't be running $150 software with it.   

No that's not what was said.

What was said was:-

I wonder how many on this thread actually bought $16K CAM software to run their $150 CNC.

Now I am sure it was not intended as an insult but it certainly does nothing to complement those who have contributed to this thread or indeed any of the members of this forum.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Looking for angles on single lip cutters

« on: September 26, 2011, 03:32:23 AM »

Hi Mike,

This web-page should have all the details you require   http://www.majosoft.com/engraving/html/anatomy_of_an_engraving_cutter.htm

Including the data from the Antares site  http://www.antaresinc.net/FactROT.html

Tweakie.