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General Mach Discussion / Re: Only getting 85% of kernel speed in mach 3

« on: November 04, 2011, 11:55:18 AM »

is your slow jog rate set lower than 100%

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General Mach Discussion / Re: step + direction to run a servo

« on: November 04, 2011, 10:39:45 AM »

through the many searches i've done on this, i came across the pixie and yapsc. The pixie looked like it would do the job, typical, and the yapsc looks unbelievably technical. The dspmc is a bit pricey compared to a drive change, i'll have a nose at the others. Any idea on pricing for the galil or kflop.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: step + direction to run a servo

« on: November 04, 2011, 10:10:28 AM »

or convert the s+dir signals to whatever the drive normally needs

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General Mach Discussion / Re: step + direction to run a servo

« on: November 04, 2011, 09:57:47 AM »

I've spent an hour on the phone with Baldor, who are exceptionally helpfull, and eventually found the correct manual for these drives. So it's either an adaptor card for the three drives or new drives,

PS. the motors are baldor bsm63a-275aa ac brushless servos.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: step + direction to run a servo

« on: November 04, 2011, 09:54:17 AM »

Hi Hood, it's a baldor dbsc 1102 baa, but there are several versions of this type, and the type i have does not support step + direction only pulse follower. The next version up does.

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General Mach Discussion / step + direction to run a servo

« on: November 04, 2011, 09:02:02 AM »

Hi, a while back i saw a post with a link to an adaptor that converted step + direction signals (mach3) to run a servo through the encoder input. Does anyone remember this or can give me a link to one.

Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Delta VFD control from Mach

« on: November 03, 2011, 01:17:35 PM »

or this at diycnc

http://www.diycnc.co.uk/html/spindle_v3.html

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Relative motion of cutter to table

« on: November 02, 2011, 10:03:51 AM »

as far as homing is concerned try to get the "Y" axis to home towards you.

The "Z" axis to home so the tool is as far away from the table as possible.

The "x" at one end of it's travel.

A good guide of tool motion, is to hold your left hand out in front of you and point to the machine with your index finger, then put your thumb up and point your second finger to the right. This is the positive motion of the tool, with your thumb being "Z", your index finger is "Y", and the second finger is "X".

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hopefully getting this worked out

« on: September 25, 2011, 01:04:40 PM »

Every license holder has a right to comment on the misuse of licenses, whether they have a direct link to the thread or not.

Mach3 is exceptionally cheap for what you get, and the support that this forum gives is priceless.

As far as "not being happy with paying $150 at this time for the license" is frankly ridiculous.

You want help, pay for your own personal license, and the last thing you should do is give some attitude when your challenged about it.

This is a pretty close community, and we all try to help as much as we can. If you expect to sit in this community then you have a great amount of back peddling to do.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting started with Mach3

« on: September 24, 2011, 11:58:32 AM »

There are complete units available that take the worry and possible heartache out of this.

http://www.cncdoctor.co.uk/index-pulse_62.html