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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: June 21, 2011, 02:28:06 PM »

No, I went with smoothstepper instead. I got the file off of ebay when someone here posted the link.
I couldn't find it on ebay today, maybe de-listed?
the other files are an dll, a script for probing and a readme file

I was thinking of using one for a future build, but I think I will wait for some feedback first

Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: June 21, 2011, 02:07:03 PM »

Ok, one more try!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: June 21, 2011, 01:55:59 PM »

I tried to post the manual but it did not work, send me your email, and i will try to send it to you directly, as a RAR file,( the whole usb-move file)
You will laugh when you read the manual, but it look's as though it can be figured out

Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th axis setup

« on: June 16, 2011, 01:31:27 PM »

Thank you Greolt, I did not realize the z axis value would effect the feed rate, mine was set at +6.8 when I ran my test file.
Set it back to 0.0 and a axis flew!
now I think I understand cncwrapper better too.

Thanks again,

Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th axis setup

« on: June 15, 2011, 02:35:20 PM »

I wrote this program for a test and measured my results with a contact tach (probably not real accurate). All the option boxes left unchecked.

G1 F150 A720 X5
G0 A0 X0
M30

radius comp on with radius of 4" chuck, measured feedrate was 32 ipm
radius set at 0.0001, measured feedrate was 45 ipm

To get my feedrate up to 150 ipm I had to set a feed rate of F540 ( this was with chuck radius entered)

Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program hanging

« on: June 04, 2011, 11:46:22 AM »

Looks like your stuck with having to reinstall Mach and/or windows, if it worked even once it could not be the carriage return thing.
Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Gecko G320 and crazy faulting issues...

« on: June 03, 2011, 08:42:23 PM »

Well I decided to fix my problems, put a ceramic cap on the estop input on the C11G and that took care of the random estop.
I am using the Antec 12v output thru the C11G for my Teco vfd, that was ok, but I found I could change the speed on my spindle while it was running by moving
the wire that goes back to the vfd around.Shut it down and rerouted the wire. Now my vfd not only runs better but the output speed is more  linear by about 400 rpm.
I think reinstalling windows on my computer will fix it. Somebody set the file system as Fat32, I am going to change it to NTFS as it should be.
Post and let us know what your problem was when you get it fixed.
Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program hanging

« on: June 03, 2011, 06:22:27 PM »

If it hangs up in the middle of your code with two G00 lines, then I have no clue as to why.
Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program hanging

« on: June 03, 2011, 06:04:50 PM »

I just cut and pasted that last bit of code into notepad
it did not even show "m30" on the screen (tho it was in the program)
it hung on the same line as yours did
I edited it and added a carriage return and it worked fine (;-)
Richard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program hanging

« on: June 03, 2011, 01:23:20 PM »

Yes, it adds a "carriage return" character to the last line of code that is to be run (not visible)
the "%" is a way of ensuring the previous line of code has a carriage return at the end of it.
Richard