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Brains Development / small brain slowing spindle speed

« on: December 04, 2007, 06:12:02 PM »

I wrote a simple brain to toggle flood on and off with the key "+". It works well except when activated it slows the spindle speed down briefly which on one occasion resulted in a stall. The driving computer is a 1G windows 2000. Is this just the result of robbing time from theCPU?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 R2.56 Problem with feedback spindle control

« on: October 27, 2007, 02:14:45 PM »

Thanks for the reply Tonyp, I did find the solution to the problem and as it is often said it was in the settings. I had my index debounce set too high and once set to "1" all works fine up to the Max RPM of 4000. The Brain that I added to control flood toggle from the key board also works very well. So Version R2.56.1 is all OK for My setup.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 R2.56 Problem with feedback spindle control

« on: October 25, 2007, 04:11:28 PM »

Spindle feedback control does not control and keeps increasing way beyond S*********X setting. All settings the same as in older versions and QUANTUM where spindle feedback control works perfectly. It seems to me that any version of MACH 3 with the BRAIN addition has this same problem. Has anyone had this problem and found the correction? I only updated to take advantage of "BRAINS" for additional keypad control of the "FLOOD TOGGLE" which works very well.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Screw mapping

« on: January 08, 2007, 02:59:27 PM »

Brian,
Thank you for the reply, but after re-reading all of the currently posted documentation I am unable to locate Any reference to "Screwmapping" Is there any of the documentation from the time it was added available?

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General Mach Discussion / Screw mapping

« on: January 05, 2007, 04:54:41 PM »

As I plan on upgrading my X2 by greatly increasing both X & Y travel with leadscrews, I may need to look at mapping the screws. I have looked at the MACH 3 Screwmapping function and understand what it does but am confused on how to use it. Are there any instructions or example of screwmapping available?

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General Mach Discussion / New user needing help with Encoder interface

« on: October 05, 2006, 09:34:08 AM »

Have recieved the Encoder interface from Roger's Engineering. I can not get the screen, Build 7 and the Macropump into MACH 3. I only get a partial Program run screen and large block unreadable screens for toolpath and Offsets. Where can I get instructions on how to properly install these addons?