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General Mach Discussion / Re: STEP MOTORS CONEXTION

« on: April 23, 2011, 08:43:11 AM »

E,

For some reason your driver is not seeing or recognizing the 'Direction' signal from Mach. When this signal is High the motor turns one way and when it is Low the motor turns the other way. Check your setup in ports and pins to make sure you are setting the direction signals correctly (pin#, port#, active low/active high etc).

Tweakie.

6722

General Mach Discussion / Re: spindle control

« on: April 23, 2011, 08:36:49 AM »

To run CW or CCW you need two relays (or solid state drive circuits) which modify the wiring to the spindle or activate different pins on the VFD.

Do you have any info on your spindle / VFD ?

Tweakie.

6723

General Mach Discussion / Re: limit swithces, dont work

« on: April 23, 2011, 08:31:38 AM »

Could well be switch "bounce". Try increasing the debounce interval on the general config page  ( 500 to 1000 perhaps ).

Tweakie.

6724

General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Tool Zero Help

« on: April 23, 2011, 08:27:02 AM »

John,

Maybe, I should have put one of the leads on the Capacitor to the Ground and the other to Input 13?

I think you should try that as it should work that way. 

Also....

The script you are using has seen a number of updates since later versions of Mach have caused some lines such as  "Code "G4 P0.25" 'Pause for Dro to update." to no longer work as intended. Perhaps be a good idea to look for the updated version which uses all "while / wend" commands for catchup.

Tweakie.

6725

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: April 23, 2011, 01:39:18 AM »

ntlaser,

Yes all settings are there (except any screen related macro's such as touch plate which are stored in the 1024.se1 or whatever screen file).

Tweakie.

6726

General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis Drifting or Loosing Steps?

« on: April 22, 2011, 01:55:43 AM »

JR,

Do you get lost steps on any other axis or is it just the Z ?

Tweakie.

6727

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

« on: April 21, 2011, 08:35:55 AM »

Hi Buddy, it is called 'Mach1Lic.dat' and it is in the Mach3 folder. If you have really lost it then contact Scott and he will re-issue the license but you may have to specify the name or possible names you used when you purchased it.

Tweakie.

6728

General Mach Discussion / Re: Recommendations on BEST Breakout Board by General Mach3 Users !

« on: April 21, 2011, 08:29:26 AM »

It would be really nice if we could find someone to try this board.




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Tweakie.

6729

Tangent Corner / Re: what kind of liner motion ways are these?

« on: April 21, 2011, 08:20:32 AM »

Some machine, dread to think what it must have cost when it was first purchased.

Tweakie

6730

Tangent Corner / Re: Interesting ?

« on: April 21, 2011, 08:14:05 AM »

And I was counting on you.  

I must have upset someone at the UK Border Control Agency because everything I have imported lately has been seized by customs and swingeing import duties levied as well as the 20% VAT. Surprisingly the goods from the USA seem to be getting hit worse than those from China but I have been unable to get an explanation of the reasons for this. I think I will just have to lay low for a while (nothing to do with the fact that I have overspent my CNC allowance and I am broke   ).

Tweakie.