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General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch activated "triggered"

« on: February 09, 2013, 09:03:11 AM »

3000 may help

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General Mach Discussion / Re: About ready to throw in the towel!!! Help Please.

« on: February 01, 2013, 10:57:14 AM »

i've found problems on certain ibm models

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General Mach Discussion / Re: About ready to throw in the towel!!! Help Please.

« on: February 01, 2013, 10:45:31 AM »

have you tried another computer.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 purchase question

« on: January 28, 2013, 03:20:57 PM »

download the licence to your online comp and copy it to a usb stick. You can use the same stick to transfer your code.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing computers

« on: January 23, 2013, 11:15:30 AM »

the parallel port has been used for controlling machines for donkeys years, mach3 is not the first add on to use it. So yes funny things can happen, and tweakie i can see that happening.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing computers

« on: January 23, 2013, 11:04:46 AM »

Yes the parallel port's outputs are switched on when windows starts, breakout boards stop this by having a charge pump.

I ALWAYS DELETE THE PARTITION AND REFORMAT THE HARD DRIVE AND ONLY INSTALL WINDOWS XP AND MACH3 ON THE COMPUTER, but be carefull not to delete the small partition on the drive as it's needed on dell machines to boot the drive.

It's quite possible that another program had access to the parallel port and was affecting it.

If you raise the low limit of the spindle pulley to 100 you will see if the enable is working.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing computers

« on: January 23, 2013, 08:09:28 AM »

ok so it's the older open triac with the electronics originally underneath the base. There would have been a contacter/relay to enable the spindle drive as well as the 0-10v input (should have an isolated supply or have it's own isolater onboard) I'll do a search on the lynx driver and see if i can find the enable inputs.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing computers

« on: January 23, 2013, 08:00:57 AM »

one test would be to raise the lower limit on your spindle pulley setting to 200 (if your max is up to 5000), this should make the spindle run steadily if the drive is enabled. So what you'll see then is the spindle running all the time, you then have to figure out why the enable is not disabling the spindle drive (assuming you have one...i hope so).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing computers

« on: January 23, 2013, 06:49:53 AM »

i'm not sure if you've allready said, what machine is it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: lathe threading pitch error

« on: January 22, 2013, 07:54:33 PM »

glad you're sorted, we'll remember this one.