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General Mach Discussion / Re: Nothing seems to work!

« on: March 02, 2016, 10:57:46 AM »

Another thing is that unless you have documentation telling you otherwise, I have always seen motor pinouts like this
X step 2 dir 3
Y step 4 dir 5
Z step 6 dir 7

I have seen a few chineese ones a bit different though.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Nothing seems to work!

« on: March 02, 2016, 10:54:54 AM »

I will chime in here..... the step ports and direction ports need to be assigned to port 1 for all of them.  So all those zeros I circled, change them to 1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: loading mach3 drivers /windows 7/ 32bit

« on: March 02, 2016, 10:46:04 AM »

look in the device manager, see if there is in fact an LPT port installed in hardware.  it maybe disabled in BIOS.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How does feed hold work when using a smooth stepper? Is it delayed?

« on: February 21, 2016, 11:59:44 PM »

The SS and Uc100 both have buffers.  I have seen the SS buffer take a couple seconds to stop the mill.
In the video you can hear the mouse click at 16 seconds. Machine stops at 20 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_TvtD847A0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can anybody help me with these problems

« on: February 20, 2016, 01:55:28 PM »

Chances are, if it is like the tan router I have, the motors are
make sure you put a check make next to enable for each axis
X step 2 dir 3
Y step 4 dir 5
z step 6 dir 7
A step 8 dir 9
make sure that the ports for all are set to 1
motor tuning for metric setup I believe is 320 steps per for the X and Y if they have ball screws.
Z will be 320 if it has a ball screw or, 400 ish if it has the acme 10 TPI screw.
set velocity to 800 to start with and accel bar to about 3/4 to the right.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can anybody help me with these problems

« on: February 20, 2016, 01:47:43 PM »

Quick google search, this guy has a pretty descent rundown on the config.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soXcK_mOyqY

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!! motors won't move on cnc (noobie)

« on: February 19, 2016, 11:36:05 AM »

A 64 bit OS will work with an external motion controller, just not the printer port.  A smooth stepper of my favorite the UC100 or UC300. 
External motion controllers have their advantages and disadvantages.  One good thing is that computers with printer ports are hard to come by these days.  So USB or Ethernet can be used for communication to the electronics.

My biggest pet peeve about an external motion controller is that they utilize a buffer, so pressing feed hold..... the machine will not instantly stop, it has to finish the pulses in the buffer then stop or loss of position will occur.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New install, Mach3 hangs on closing Ports & Pins

« on: February 19, 2016, 11:29:49 AM »

your xml opens fine on my machine.  Granted I do not have an ESS installed, rather a UC300 on this machine. The only thing enabled in your file are the 3 axis.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New install, Mach3 hangs on closing Ports & Pins

« on: February 19, 2016, 11:26:43 AM »

I will tell you this, that anytime mach3 stops responding the ESS and the computer need to be shut down and restarted.

The ESS has to always be on before turning on mach 3.  It will never work the other way around.

Go into the mach3 folder and find the mach3 install exe and re-run it.  When you reinstall mach, make sure that the printer port drivers is unchecked. and reinstall. 

See if that solved it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor Tuning on Chinese 3040T

« on: February 18, 2016, 10:06:44 AM »

FIRST THING IS TO TRIPPLE CHECK THE COUPLERS! 

Is mach3 setup in inches or metric?

On most of those machines you have ball screw for the X and Y and a acme screw for the Z so the numbers will be different.   But if your motor is slipping in the coupler........