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General Mach Discussion / Re: Another 2nd parallel port question

« on: October 26, 2011, 02:53:44 PM »

It all works now!

 I took out the C-22 board and disabled the brains.

Configured Mach through the port pins and got 5+volts from the USB port.

Hope this helps someone.
It seems the brains had something that  corrupted Mach.

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 26, 2011, 02:52:31 PM »

Update!

It's working now.  I took out the C-22 board and disabled the brains.

Configured Mach through the port pins and got 5+volts from the USB port.

Hope this helps someone.

Thanks for all of the help and suggestions

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pendant works, but need help setting increments.

« on: October 26, 2011, 02:51:13 PM »

It's working now.  I took out the C-22 board and disabled the brains.

Configured Mach through the port pins and got 5+volts from the USB port.

Hope this helps someone.

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Pendant works, but need help setting increments.

« on: October 23, 2011, 08:20:17 PM »

The machine is now where it will jog with the pendant.

It will  select; X, Y, or Z axis, from the pendant.

The settings have me puzzled, though. If it is in step/velocity mode, the axis won't jog until you have made a second revolution with the hand-wheel.

Then it jumps about 2 or 3 inches at once, and coasts to a stop.

If it is set to lower counts or velocity in the MPG setting, it jumps about .250 in per click. 

There is something simple that I'm not getting.

Does anyone have some suggested starting points for tuning an MPG?

It would be nice to have it rapid close to the part, (with MPG) and then be able to move in .001 at a time to touch off with an edge finder.

Another concern is sometime it will only jog in one direction -.0 only, with the hand wheel turning either  direction

Also in velocity mode, it will run-away and you have to hit "ESC" to stop it.

There may be some loose pin connections in the pendant, or cable end DB 25 connector.

Thanks for all of the help,

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 23, 2011, 08:08:35 PM »

Got  it all working ( most of it)

The pendant will jog now.

Thanks for all of the help and listening to my  "Lunatic Ramblings."


JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 22, 2011, 09:28:40 AM »

Now everything works, except the pendant..

Mach functions great, the "Motor Config" opens every time.

Brains, .xml with different names can be installed/removed. No problems.


The enable button on the pendant works, and toggles the jog button on screen.

Something must be wrong with:

The pendant, or (wiring pin-out is wrong inside the one I have)

C-22 board is bad

The brains for c-22 are bad.


Mach will run on either port with a simple address change, and swap the cable to the different port.


JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 21, 2011, 05:11:01 PM »

Alenz,

Thanks for the info. I have been using a Mach version from about a year ago.( Don't know which  version).

This one giving me trouble  was downloaded about a week ago.

If I can find my old version, that's the one I'll install if this needs another re-work.
 

Right now, it's  working good and I figured out what it seems to be.

Using the the factory MACH .XML, and changing   the settings to those in  the PMDX.xml, works great.

For some reason if I try to load an .XML with any other name than the "Machmill.XML", it removes the option of  tuning the motors.

I have re-installed Mach  a dozen  times , and Windows XP about 9 or 10.

You can't put anything in the .XML name or it will screw up. Such as: 2mach3.xml, mymach3.xml, hurcomach3.xml, etc.

When it does mess up, you can go back and install the factory xml, and the motor tuning still won't open.

At least now, when things go crazy, you only have to  re-install  Mach, but  you  can't uninstall  Mach through Windows?

You have to search for all Mach folders and delete, then do a fresh install and re-boot Windows.

I am going to try again with the brains to see if it messes up. At least  it can be set back to where it is now, if something happens.

Also, you can change the address and  cable between the (2) parallel ports, and Mach will function fine  for either port.

Since  it recognizes both ports, it should allow a pendant. < ( For most people it would. Maybe not for me)

Hope this helps some else with similar problems. This is strange and may only apply to my computer, machine, and components.

If it will  stay the same, I can make notes of the glitches and remember what to do.

Usually, I run into problems that no one has ever had before,  and it's  for me only.

Jackal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 20, 2011, 06:14:20 PM »

Hood,

Everything is back up and running.  Mach is feeding through the 2nd parallel port.

The motor tuning won't open up at all.

This morning,  I set Y and Z to the exact acceleration & velocity of my X axis.

Now they will still jog, but at a real low speed ( because I can't open the tuning to  speed them up.) 

I keep using this same .xml, since it has the settings for the 2nd Port, and took forever to  set-up.

Could there be a setting clicked in my .xml doing this?

I'm not familiar enough with Mach to know.

Thanks,

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 20, 2011, 05:17:22 PM »

Steve @ PMDX told me that if I can get the 2nd port to work, we can configure it with his #145 board that just came out.

I have seen a lot of problems with the  CNC4pc c22 board.

One guy said that  he  had to find some  ( Pull-up resistors ) on the board and bypass them to get it to work.

I have searched and there are a lot of people having trouble getting it running.

I'll see what Steve says about it now.

Stay tuned,

JAckal

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach won't let me tune motors. Dialog page won't open??

« on: October 20, 2011, 02:55:14 PM »

Hood,

It works ok with the P-port driver installed, when you add the brains for the pendant & CNC4PC C-22 card, the "Config Motors" goes away.



You have to remove the P-port driver & brains, then re-install  Mach & sometimes re-install Windows, to get the motor adjustment back.

I do have the 2nd parallel port working now.

JAckal