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General Mach Discussion / Re: THC UP() Button?

« on: November 29, 2012, 10:27:52 PM »

easy to do. i have a happ 2 axis joystick that is used during oxy flame cutting. 1 microswitch to an input pin for up and another for down.   go to oem trigger and select the input for up and in the box enter the oemcide for thcup. next oem trigger for down enter the oemcode for thcdown. 

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: encoder inputs as DRO

« on: November 08, 2012, 12:17:06 PM »

rogersmachine had sold a breakout board  and plugin that would have mach keep track of any errors. the encoders would be read and updated on a dro on the screenset.
the error allowed had user settings.  mach would estop if out of range of the error set. it worked well, but now use smoothetepper and never tried it since.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Could Windows XP be Twiddling the PP Pins

« on: November 08, 2012, 06:14:54 AM »

i had the same type of symtoms only the machine would start on its own.  had an oem input setup to a pushbutton for start.
would trigger on randomly. the input was was set to 5v off. this was on the motherboard pport. switched the port to a pci pport and never occured again.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 29, 2012, 09:06:17 PM »

Terry, about modifying the m30 and the m1030 macro. where are they located? be damned if i can find them unless its too obvious am i am just dumb.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: How to connect my SS to my Controll Card?

« on: October 24, 2012, 08:24:16 PM »

do you have a safety charge pump circuit requiring signal?  its happened to me not activating it on.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Special Gecko Stepper driver sale

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:19:17 PM »

Jeff, do you sell any 320 drives?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to calculate steps per unit when ball screw values and other info is unkown

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:17:24 PM »

take your needed which i 3 and divide by what you have 2.985= 1.0050251. multiply unit value

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General Mach Discussion / Re: lathe threading

« on: October 22, 2012, 12:20:20 PM »

Hood, did you have to modify the index pulse , as in a pulse stretcher with the smoothstepper?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Driver Test Works but Pulse Frequency is 1, 2, 4, etc.

« on: September 07, 2012, 12:13:38 PM »

i had this problem too after the service pack 3 update. had to do a system restore and go back to service pack 2.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No Port 1 Activity

« on: July 22, 2012, 02:25:56 PM »

i had a ibm netvista that acted like that. never could get the onboard port to work. ended up intalling 2 pci parallel ports.