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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Looking for utility to cut rectangular pockets

« on: June 16, 2013, 09:21:14 AM »

open up a notepad page and cut and paste the code you need for each hole.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Looking for utility to cut rectangular pockets

« on: June 15, 2013, 07:44:43 PM »

use the rectangular pocket wizard

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Blown spindle inverter/controller

« on: June 11, 2013, 07:25:47 PM »

you can command any speed you like with mach and fine tune via the screen. But yes you can use a pot.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Blown spindle inverter/controller

« on: June 11, 2013, 06:51:07 PM »

yes, but why would you ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle

« on: June 11, 2013, 04:57:03 PM »

do you have the steps per / velocity / acceleration set correctly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Blown spindle inverter/controller

« on: June 11, 2013, 04:41:13 PM »

your motor will probably run at 1425 rpm at 50hz, so if you set the inverter to run at 100hz max frequency you'll get approximately 2850 rpm at the motor.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Blown spindle inverter/controller

« on: June 11, 2013, 04:29:41 PM »

to get double the speed

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General Mach Discussion / Re: erratic pulse train fix?

« on: June 11, 2013, 12:21:44 PM »

i'll try that on one of the novatechs here, well spotted.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: erratic pulse train fix?

« on: June 10, 2013, 12:06:58 PM »

First off I must say that I omly use Pentium 4 level computers.

I have 7 novatech desktop machines that have "bad" parallel ports, 3 ibm lenova desktop computers that have "bad" parallel ports, and a few others that have been gutted for parts over the years. I've converted a lot of denford and boxford  and conect machines over a lot of years and I actively seek computers that I know work. I've just purchased a load of viglen desktops that work, but I normally go for dell.
With the greatest respect, i'm not a Mach3 guru like Rich or Hood so the inner workings of mach are a mystery to me, all I can comment on are the computers I use.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: erratic pulse train fix?

« on: June 10, 2013, 08:23:26 AM »

thanks for your input on the dell machines Rich, i've not come across these problems on any dell machines that I've used, but i'll keep an eye out for it. I have used approximately 50+ dell machines to this date.

Machines I have had problems with are mainly ibm and ibm clones.