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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor Tuning not showing up

« on: April 24, 2011, 07:42:12 AM »

Hi Peter,

Looks like you don't have the drivers installed. Run the 'Driver Test.exe' in the Mach3 folder, that should cure it.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Routing Wood

« on: April 24, 2011, 05:12:35 AM »

Obviously I would need to make a lot of these to justify the cost of the software but this only took minutes from drawing it on the screen to having it ready for a coat of satin varnish using Vetric's VCarve Pro.
It was cut in Teak in three passes and there is visibly a slight variation in toolpath which is probably due to the backlash in my Z axis but it is a free gift to one of my neighbours who thinks it will do just fine. 

Tweakie.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.