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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z limit Switch with a touch pad

« on: March 28, 2011, 08:16:20 AM »

Some Macro's do a second touch, at a much lower speed to correct for the motor overrun of the first touch - perhaps this is what you are observing.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie

« on: March 28, 2011, 08:12:37 AM »

Hi John,

In the Mach3 folder is a file Mach3Mill.xml which contains all the settings for that profile. If your new machine software runs a different profile (name shown bottom right of Mach screen) then you need to save that .xml file somewhere as a backup for all your settings (I perhaps doesn't hurt to print them out as well, just in case).

Despite it's initial daunting appearance Mach is not hard to learn to use and I have always advocated only learning what you need to know (I have been using Mach for a couple of years now, I only know the half of it, if that, but I get by). Get plenty of hands on experience and look up stuff only when you need to know it is my approach.

I think that once you get hands on it will soon all fall into place and there will be loads more products on your website. 

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 28, 2011, 07:55:21 AM »

This is the laser cut 'proof of concept' face for my Aztec Clock.

It will have a quartz movement, keep perfect time and is guaranteed to run right up to Midday on the 21st December 2012. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: testing mach3, cannot run two axis at the same time

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:17:27 AM »

Are the steppers just stopping quietly or are they stalling and making a squealing sound ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coil Winding 101

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:12:40 AM »

Hi Jeff,

Welcome to the forum.

Hood is the man when it comes to coil winders he will know 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Y-Axis Sticking

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:09:37 AM »

I would be inclined to remove the stepper from its mountings and see if this problem persists under 'no load' conditions.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Offsets and saving.

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:00:33 AM »

Not sure if I am understanding this correctly but if you zero all your offsets (offsets page) then uncheck 'offset save' and 'persistent offsets' etc in General Config page then Mach will have no knowledge of previously used offsets when starting up again from scratch.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: DC Motor as Rotational axis

« on: March 28, 2011, 03:53:28 AM »

Hi JR,

I know nothing of lathes but the rotating headstock is fitted with a slotted disk which interrupts the beam from an optical sensor. This pulse is then fed into Mach to  measure RPM and is used for synchronizing threading etc. A similar system is used for spindle speed control on a mill.
You may need to do a bit of searching but there are details of spindle setups on the forum.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie

« on: March 28, 2011, 03:42:12 AM »

Hi John,

Welcome to the forum.
From just quickly glancing at your website I think we are all going to be learning stuff from you pretty soon.
That TX ballancer is just brilliant (wish I had thought of that).
Good fortune with your router.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motors will not spin

« on: March 28, 2011, 03:31:04 AM »

Sorry to keep asking dumb questions but I am trying to establish what you have.

Inside your control box do you have the genuine Microproto controller or is it a Stepmaster board ?

Tweakie.