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General Mach Discussion / Stacking Steppers (2Xpower)

« on: October 05, 2006, 03:28:06 PM »

Has anybody tried stacking steppers to get more torque? I was wondering if this will work.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: October 03, 2006, 09:44:33 AM »

Chris,

   Make sure you set your initial delay in misc. settings to 300 and not 3000. Also, did you load any drivers with your gamepad? I did not and remember reading somewhere that you should not. If you have, uninstall those and go straight to Keygrabber. Keygrabber should still recognize your gamepad. I have mine plugged in to a USB port. If the above doesn't work you may want to try that.

Let me know if this works.
Thanks,

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: October 03, 2006, 09:34:45 AM »

The Other Sid,
   
    Where do you get the shuttle pro pendant and how much should it cost? I did look at the plugin and config. screen. This may be the cure for my problem. I would like to say that my problem is very small. The game pad is nice and really easy to set up in Keygrabber. I'm just trying to get it perfect.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: September 29, 2006, 08:56:27 AM »

Hello Chris,
        I find the keygrabber to be really nice and easy to set up. I had the Gamepad set up in less than 20min. It's killer. I can do the following from a $16.00 gamepad I bought at Walmart.
1,2,3. Jog my X,Y,&Z in analog. Slow to fast.All three at the same time if slow jog is at 100%
4,5,6. Zero my X,Y,&Z axis DROS with an interlock.
7,8,9. Feed rate +,-,& instant return to 100%
10. Step mode. This works good if you want to move one axis at the time and the axis do step with the keyboard but not with the analogs.
11. Go to Zero with an interlock. Sends all three axis home.
12. Program rewind.
13. Cycle start.
14. Feed hold.
15. Cycle stop.
16. Flood coolant toggle. On,off.
17. Single block.
18. Block delete.
19. Optional stop.
20. Raise and lower my slow jog rate with analog. This is what I'm having problems with.
This does raise and lower my slow jog rate on the second axis I command, but not the first. If I,we,anybody can get this going it will be complete and super nice.
It also has a self retracting cord and plugs in to a USB port. Can't beat that!!!!!!!!! My only concern is, how is it going to hold up, and I know it's not coolant proof.
I have not noticed any delay at all with any of this. I can run my mill efficiently from this simple gamepad. This is the way to go. I built a simple pendant with two 4 position joysticks and two mom. push bottons in a box. I used an Ipac emulator and got it to do exactly what I wanted, just not enough of it. I got every thing from Automation Direct (except the emulator, it came from Ultimarc) and still had $195.00 in it.
       On your time delay. Do you have your up and down keystrokes as typematic? If you do you can go to the misc. settings and get that delay out. I have mine set as two stage typematic and my settings are
Go into keygrabber, Misc. settings
Typematic
Initial delay 300 this is where I suspect your delay is coming from. This is in Milli seconds. It's purpose is not to confuse Mach (I think).
First Rate 10 per second repeat rate
Number at first rate 5. After it sees (this value) strokes it jumps to second rate.
Second Rate 100 per second repeat rate.

Hope this helps,

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: September 27, 2006, 07:06:28 PM »

Thanks Hood. That does work, I did that a couple of days ago. I used axis one for this and it did control the jog rate in the tab screen. When you press a keyboard key it does just as it should. However the anolog joysticks hardly notice the change from .1-100. One thing I did note is that with the jog rate at 100 you can move all three axis at the same time. When you lower the rate you can still jog two axis at once but the second one you command is the one that is affected by the rate change.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: September 27, 2006, 01:52:20 PM »

Thanks Jeff. The Mach 2 customization documentation goes over this on page 8-7 (very bottom) and continued on 8-8. I'm running mach3 version R1.84.001. I set axis 2 as my Z, axis 3 as my X and axis 4 as my Y. I would like to set axis one as my axis gain. When I built a pendant with some joystick switches I had a button that = the shift key for rapid. The other n.o. switches = my direction (arrow) keys for the X and Y. Page up and page down for the Z. The analog sticks are set to the same key strokes only there is no rapid (shift key). In keygrabber under joysticks, if I rapid at 60IPM (set up in motor tuning) I set the gain to 100% the the joystick moves the axis at 60IPM. If I set the gain to 10% the fastest the joystick will jog is 6IPM. All of this is right. If I assign a button or joystick axis as (axis gain) go to the misc. settings in keygrabber and set the joystick sensitivity buttons so that up = 100% and down = 10% then when I press the button (or move the joystick axis) I should be able to jog at 60IPM or 6IPM. I have not been able to make this happen yet.If you will send me an e-mail with your phone number I would gladly call you.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: September 26, 2006, 10:21:18 PM »

Sorry Jeff. No, I'm not speaking of feed override, I set these up on the d-pad, that works great. I was refering to the slow jog. I bring this up with the tab key. The mpg screen.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Keygrabber Axis Gain question

« on: September 26, 2006, 10:16:35 PM »

Thanks Jeff, I have looked at that and actually reset those in screen design. I have the increse as T and the decrese as K. I set up the axis to key these as a two stage typematic. That works great, however when I move one of the analog axis to the extreme it still rapids. The analog works great, it will move .0001 at the time if I can control my finger good enough. I would like to set it up so that if I use the axis I'm using for my gain to run the slow jog to .1 the the other axis will move ever so slowly even if pushed to the extreme limit.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: estop

« on: September 26, 2006, 09:05:14 PM »

Automation direct. Gcx 1131 $12.00. I would want it to disable my drivs, spindle, coolant. Not my PC though.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: (Newbe) Axis Gain

« on: September 22, 2006, 05:34:05 PM »

As I said, I'm new to all of this so please bare with me. As I understand it I can set up one axis of the gamspad as an axis gain. In keygrabber under joysticks, you set the axis as an axis gain. Also under hid keys, translates to, special keys. There is also axis gain here. I was thinking I could use this as a gain override for the other axis. If this is so I could push the other axis to 100%, override it with the axis gain and really creep for touch offs and such. It goes over this In the mach2 customization download on page 8-8.