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General Mach Discussion / Compumotor servo drives for conversion?

« on: May 11, 2011, 09:07:31 PM »

I have a small cnc mill that I built and I use the compumotor zeta4 stepper drives and bipolar stepper motors.
They are great drives and I was wondering if anyone has used there servo drives with Mach3 and how they worked out because I would like to try them in my
cnc Mill conversion if they are compatible.

Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Opinions on drives for cnc control conversion?

« on: May 09, 2011, 09:25:25 PM »

I have a 1981 Excello 604 cnc mill with an old dynapath m5 control that I am going to convert to Mach3.
The mill has 85volt 28amp 1700 rpm servo motors and westamp drives as of now.
I am thinking of going with either Granite drives or the Dugong drives for my conversion and was wondering if anyone has any opinions on these or
other drives I would really appreciate it.I am trying to keep this conversion at a reasonable cost so anyone with a different drive that will work and save me some cash would also be a consideration.


Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / X axis moving in only one direction?

« on: June 06, 2010, 11:18:50 PM »

I am hoping someone can help me out.
What happened was I was running my cnc router with mach3 using zeta4 drives and slo sym motors 300 oz/in and the x motor overheated and the axis would not move anymore. So I let the motor cool down and tried to move the X axis but it would only move in one direction using both the + and - jog keys,I checked the settings and the hotkeys are still set properly can anyone give me any ideas on what might of happened here?

Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / CSS with Mach3

« on: March 01, 2010, 07:45:32 PM »

Im wondering if mach3 will work with a vector drive so that I can program CSS on my lathe?
Or is there some other way to do this?

Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / What is the best spindle encoder?

« on: December 18, 2009, 08:09:57 PM »

I am about to convert one of my lathes and one bridgeport mill to cnc and I was wondering what is the best spindle encoders for each,and the best breakout board for each also,or can they both use the same ones?

Any help would be great.

Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Spindle encoder for cnc lathe conversion?

« on: December 17, 2009, 08:58:48 PM »

I am starting my lathe conversion and I need to know what I need to purchess for the spindle encoder to use with mach 3 software.
Also do I need any thing else with the encoder to like a eletrical board or does the encoder just go to the parallel port?

Any advice would reall be great!!!!

Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Xbox controller,x axis moves the wrong direction on my lathe!

« on: January 23, 2009, 09:17:38 PM »

Xbox controller,x axis moves the wrong direction on my lathe when using the xbox control, is there any way to reverse the x positive and negative when using the arrow keys on the control?

Thanks Mike

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Key Grabber

« on: August 24, 2008, 06:28:20 PM »

Where can I find the download for the Key Grabber by Les Newell,I havent been able to locate it,maybe im looking right at it and dont know it.I want it to finish installing my xbox controller.Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks Mike

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Xbox 360 controller not working!

« on: August 23, 2008, 07:05:09 PM »

Im having trouble getting my xbox 360 controller to work with mach3.I go to the config. and most of the options come up blank.The x and y axis are working ok though.Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 R3.00 back to Mach3 R2.63

« on: February 02, 2008, 09:36:58 PM »

How come Mach3 has reverted back to Mach3 R2.63 it was at Mach3 R3.00 just a little while ago is there problems with it or something?

Thanks Mike