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General Mach Discussion / Re: help in understanding CV stop at >

« on: January 12, 2012, 06:55:43 AM »

Pleased you're getting somewhere Scott

It appears that the CV stop at > value is off by 100% unless I am just not getting it.

CV is not "off by 100%", it works absolutely correctly as long as you understand WHICH angle the "stop CV on angles >" is actually referring to.

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help in understanding CV stop at >

« on: January 12, 2012, 04:01:38 AM »

The section about CV angles in the doc is wrong. I've brought this up many times in the past and even submitted a corrected doc once but I don't know that anything came of it. Last time I brought it up and attached a correction to the doc was here I think.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,18378.msg126805.html#msg126805

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Why mach make a micropause between commands ?

« on: January 11, 2012, 12:05:04 PM »

might be nice if you respond to Hood's help in your other post rather than just post the same question again here.

topic locked

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Modbus / Re: where are serial with plugin modbus settings stored

« on: January 10, 2012, 11:24:24 AM »

Hi Scott

Perfect - thanks. Never even crossed my addled mind to look there...

Thanks again

Ian

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Modbus / where are serial with plugin modbus settings stored

« on: January 10, 2012, 08:33:58 AM »

Mach has unfortunatley suffered one of it's spells of amnesia and lost my modbus settings. Fortunately my memory is marginally better than Mach's so I could redo them. Just for if it happens again though does anyone know where these values are persisted? I'm talking about the modbus config settings (see attached modpic2) which applies to serial modbus with plugin support as set on the ports n pins dialog (see attached modpic1). I can't see anything in the backup XMLs.

Thanks

Ian

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Tangent Corner / over 18/21

« on: January 06, 2012, 06:16:48 PM »

As a smoker for far too many years I tried a friends e-cig on New Years Eve. I bought one a couple of days later. Just a few days later - Wow - I mean WOW - anyone else tried these things? what's your thoughts?

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / limit problem

« on: January 05, 2012, 04:58:13 AM »

Welcome - but why have you hijacked someone else's thread? particularly as it has nothing to do with your problem. Here's one of your very own.

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FAQs / Re: Problem with setting up mach3

« on: January 04, 2012, 12:03:41 PM »

I'm sure you're onto it Tweakie but I have a couple of suggestions if it helps.

chadgarber
Might sound stupidly simple but...

1) Have you accidentally turned jogging OFF? Hit Ctrl-Alt-J and try your arrow keys again.
2) Enter your port addresses again and ONLY use the mouse for Apply and OK - not the <enter> key. Just enter the number part of the address NOT the 0x part - It doesn't make any difference here but I have a vague memory of something...

PS: I might be being paranoid but I'd try to get those port numbers accepted before you do too much else. The system will write to whatever I/O range you have set there. Not generally a good thing.

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Diagnostics screen

« on: January 04, 2012, 08:21:20 AM »

Hi dp4027

I believe they're supposed to represent the (physical) parallel port pins but they've never worked properly for me. They appear (on my system) to only respond to inputs i.e. not outputs and they're not (to me at least) in any sort of logical order.

Personally I ignore them and concentrate on the (logical) "Input signals current state" and "Output signals current state" banks of LEDS just below them.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: computer problem, need to save what I can

« on: January 03, 2012, 09:21:34 AM »

depends on your skill level/confidence/bravery but there are many ways you can try to rescue your data before you attempt to fix the actual problem. You COULD try to fix the problem first but that's your call - personally I'd make safe your personal files first.

google the full error you've posted here for a start (it's well documented) and then google booting a corrupt windoze instalation and look for backing up first.

Oh and finally - get yourself a new computer doctor - if that's their best effort - they shouldn't (IMHO) be allowed within a country mile of any computer.