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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 & C10 breakout spindle control?

« on: June 22, 2010, 04:05:48 AM »

Hi D,

Unfortunately the C10 does not have the on board variable speed control (it's the model C11 that has this). However this does not stop you varying the spindle speed using a seperate PWM / 0 - 10 Volt board for controllingl your VFD.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Enternal E-STOP Leds

« on: June 22, 2010, 02:28:09 AM »

Hi Johnv,

As far as I am aware the LED is OEM code 800 but this is for a virtual panel. If you are talking about a physical control panel then you will need to assign an output to drive the led and then I think the best bet is to use two 'flashing LEDs'.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting Inch or Metric -- GCode only????

« on: June 22, 2010, 02:17:22 AM »

No matter how hard you try you just can't please everybody 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: auto Z setter adjusting

« on: June 22, 2010, 02:06:22 AM »

Hi George,

Thank you for the detailed explanation for the position of the filter caps - I understand now.
(you should have known better and used shielded wire for your switches  )

I spent over an hour browsing the wonderful pictures of your excellent Zenith build. I think if I had spent 3 years on it I could never have parted with N73EX.

Best regards,

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Nothing is moving...

« on: June 21, 2010, 01:53:00 PM »

That's great, glad you got it all working.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: auto Z setter adjusting

« on: June 21, 2010, 01:51:12 PM »

Hi George,

Did you place the 0.1uf and 10uf capacitors on both the step and direction pins for each axis ?

Tweakie.

(My apologies to Bogie for hijacking his thread).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: auto Z setter adjusting

« on: June 21, 2010, 08:17:36 AM »

The "G92Z0.182" would become "G92Z0.192"

Sounds like the best solution to me - simplicity is best 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: I'm in Hog Heaven

« on: June 21, 2010, 03:21:48 AM »

Excellent work - looks like you are an expert and being modest about the learning. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: auto Z setter adjusting

« on: June 20, 2010, 12:50:38 PM »

Hi Bogie,

I suggest you make a copy of what is there already and save it for safety.
Look at my macro and see where the changes have to be made to suite your machine (all units in my macro are metric - change them to inch units if that is what you require). You will certainly want to change the plate thickness.
Then copy and past it into the button - you can always make corrections as you test it but do not use a good cutter for testing just in case things go pear shaped  

Tweakie.

btw. If you post a copy of your existing macro I will look at it and suggest what changes are needed to correct your error.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: auto Z setter adjusting

« on: June 20, 2010, 12:39:38 PM »

Hi Bogie,

No you are not correct - They are VB code and must be put into the 'Auto Zero Button' on the Mach screen.

Within Mach click:-  Operator / Edit Button Script - (the VB buttons will flash) then click on the Auto Tool Zero button - your macro will be in there and that is where you make the corrections etc (don't forget to save it).

Tweakie.