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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scary depth

« on: August 04, 2007, 04:34:03 AM »

Your 800 steps per setting suggests you're using a 16 * microstepping factor and 200 steps/rev motors - is that true?. If you have 4mm screws and say 200 steps/rev motors then with no microstepping your steps per (mm) should be 50. If you're microstepping then multiply this by the microstepping factor e.g. for 10 * microstepping you'd end up with 500 for your steps per. This should be the same for all axes if your geometry and microstepping is the same for all axes. Hint: make sure when you set the value on the dialog you click in another text box otherwise Mach won't keep the value you've entered. Also remember to save the axis before moving on to the next.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scary depth

« on: August 03, 2007, 04:19:20 AM »

Hi Roly - sounds obvious but are you sure you've got your "steps per" set correctly for the Z axis in motor tuning?

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: UK cnc router site

« on: July 17, 2007, 03:59:36 AM »

Hi Chad - Don't know what time you visited but I've just found out that my hosting service was down for 4 hours! monday evening UK time - great - maybe I need a new provider.... but thanks for trying.

Hi Graham - thanks - will add phone number. and address do you think?

Thanks both for looking - any other thoughts - be as brutal as you like

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Promote and discuss your product / UK cnc router site

« on: July 16, 2007, 08:01:14 AM »

Hi - I'd be grateful if anyone has the time to review my site at www.razordance.co.uk and give me any feedback you like please.

TIA

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General Mach Discussion / Re: GCode to send Axis to home limit switches?

« on: July 07, 2007, 04:47:06 AM »

Can someone help me out with this one - I'm confused... As I understand it there is no g-code to do the same as the "ref all axis home" button. G28 and G30 just send the axis to whatever values are in parameters 5161-5166 and 5181-5186 i.e. work offsets.

Also I don't understand the requirement in the first place - why would you want to do this? ref all home is to let the machine know where it is when its lost - isn't it?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ekstromcarlson spindles

« on: July 06, 2007, 02:56:22 PM »

Thanks Chad - I'll take a look - probably won't be able to afford them (stuff costs a fortune over here) but it's worth a try.

cheers

Stirling

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General Mach Discussion / ekstromcarlson spindles

« on: July 06, 2007, 04:38:43 AM »

Hi - anyone have any experience of these? http://www.ekstromcarlson.com/spindle%20motors.htm

for example Motorpack 3 under http://www.ekstromcarlson.com/router_packages.htm

I'd also be interested if anyone in the UK has imported them.

many thanks

Stirling

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing after work has completed

« on: July 06, 2007, 04:31:06 AM »

don't know the full ins n outs but G28 works for me

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General Mach Discussion / Re: All settings gone awol

« on: July 04, 2007, 03:16:35 AM »

I think your problem is to do with the upgrade trashing some of your settings in the xml file. Check that your setting for "IJ mode" is correct. It's probably switched back to incremental when you want absolute.

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General Mach Discussion / limit override

« on: June 29, 2007, 03:36:14 PM »

I think I probably wandered off topic when I put this on the end of another post so here it is anew.

I upgraded from R1.84.002 to R2.00.065 and noticed that limit override (both manual and auto) doesn't appear to work. There's just no way to get off a limit (other than disabling them in ports n pins).

Has anyone else come accross this or have I set something up wrongly?

I've switched back to  R1.84.002 for the moment and everything is fine.