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Mach Screens / Re: Pause or Feedhold LED ???

« on: July 25, 2008, 09:28:27 PM »

NOTE:  The Feed Hold 111  LED will only 1/2 work for you.........   What it does, it only becomes active IF you hit the feed hold during line
execution AND there is some movement left on that same line thas has not been executed...........

On short move lines, when you hit the feed hold, sometimes (alot on short moves), the LED 111 will not light, since you hit the
feed hold and by the time the motors decelerate to a stop, you are at the end of the line, or sometimes at the beginning of the next line..........

Scott,  as always,  above and beyond the call.............  Thanks.

I tried for a while to get a feedhold where the LED 111 would not light.  Just kept hitting feedhold / start.  It lit every time.  Roadrunner.

Then I tried Cross.tap  and it never lights.   Something going on there I don't understand. 

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cnc stops :-(

« on: July 25, 2008, 12:28:34 AM »

Brad

Glad that got things going.

I live in Geelong and am often in Melbourne.  I would love to call in one day and see the Tormach.

Greg

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cnc stops :-(

« on: July 24, 2008, 11:44:41 PM »

Mach in demo or free mode is limited to 500 lines.

Check your license if you have one.

By the way are you from Avoca Victoria?

Greg

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Mach Screens / Re: Pause or Feedhold LED ???

« on: July 24, 2008, 07:41:25 PM »

Scott

I know 813 is dwell.  I use that to show when a G4 pause is happening in my macros

It also shows when spindle spin up delay is happening.

111 seems to be working for what I wanted which is to indicate I have feedhold happening.

Not too sure why Brian says he thinks he has come up with a fix for that ......??

Have not figured out what 805 does.  Do you know?

Greg

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Mach Screens / Re: Pause or Feedhold LED ???

« on: July 24, 2008, 08:18:03 AM »

Yeah OEM 111 is working for me.

Thanks Dave.

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Mach Screens / Pause or Feedhold LED ???

« on: July 23, 2008, 07:34:12 AM »

I asked about this a year or so ago.  Thought I might try again. 

The wiki lists OEM LED No  805 for pause.   You can also select Pause direct from "System Function"

Neither of these work for me.  Anyone know a way to get this to work for Pause or Feedhold ?

Greg

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Format strings for sliders ???

« on: July 22, 2008, 04:32:26 AM »

Is there any info anywhere on the format strings for sliders in Screen4?

Greg

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SmoothStepper USB / In praise of SmoothStepper customer service.

« on: July 21, 2008, 05:18:02 AM »

I have two SmoothSteppers. 

With one of them I was chasing some tuning problems and decided maybe the USB was not providing enough current at 5v.

The SS can get it's 5v supply direct from the USB or an external source so I hooked up an external 5v supply to see if it made a difference.

However I did something really stupid and by mistake hooked it to ten volts.

Well as you can imagine my gross abuse was more than the SmoothStepper could withstand and I damaged three small driver ICs on the board.

I told Greg at Warp9 Tech Design about my stupid mistake and asked about the possibility of replacing the driver ICs or ordering a new SS.

Greg said "No worries I will replace it for free"   and he did.  You can not ask for better customer support than that.  Thanks Greg.

Goes with out saying I have no interest in Warp9 Tech Design, only a very happy customer.

Greg  (running two SS and they are great)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touchy Limit/Home switches. Back off farther on Reference?

« on: July 21, 2008, 03:11:54 AM »

Carl

I noticed you posted about this on the SmoothStepper forum.

If you are using the SS it now has "digital filtering" or what Mach calls "debounce"

The good part about it in the SS is that it is a separate setting for homing, limits estop, probe etc.

So if yo set a substantial debounce interval for home switches it will not affect estop, limits etc.

Greg

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Look Ma no dividing head

« on: July 15, 2008, 08:01:30 AM »

What CAM are you producing those toolpaths with John?

Pretty impressive. 

Greg