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General Mach Discussion / Re: I'm Losing Position HELP!!!!

« on: October 05, 2008, 03:03:57 PM »

You are going faster than the geckos can push the motors so you need lower count encoders if yo need the speed.  Remember 500 in quadrature is 2000 transitions per revolution.  So if you have it a 3:1 belt and a 5tpi screw that is 30,000 steps per inch Geckos are not made for that.
I have some of these drives on a bridgeport mill they are running nice,  I have the Viper 200.  This is the best deal for servo drives.
http://www.larkencnc.com/viper/v75.htm

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General Mach Discussion / Offset tangential control?

« on: August 22, 2008, 09:42:26 PM »

I know its simple in Mach to do tangential control if the tool is directly under the rotating axis, what about something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwrjVVu_Jms&feature=related

Or is it done in cam?

Thanks

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Screen4 problems?

« on: August 19, 2008, 08:43:56 PM »

Brett,

That seems to help now works pretty solid, Thank you much!!


Dennis

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Screen4 problems?

« on: August 17, 2008, 11:11:59 PM »

Is it me or screen4...  after a few minutes of use my buttons don't want to get selected or open to edit the properties the buttons start to jump around?

is there only one version of it? I have 1.2

Thanks

Dennis

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Not jogging in new screen?

« on: August 16, 2008, 09:52:53 PM »

Thank you much would have taken me years to figure that out,  works good now.

Thanks

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VB and the development of wizards / Not jogging in new screen?

« on: August 16, 2008, 01:53:30 PM »

I added another screen in mach with a X dro, it updates fine if I jog in the run program screen but will not jog in the new screen I made.  What needs to be done to make it jog?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Buttons to turn on LED's

« on: August 16, 2008, 08:47:44 AM »

Ron,

Thank you much that is what I need!!

I looked through the wiki and didn't see that you need to put call before the SetUserLED.  So i was trying with out the call and nothing worked.

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VB and the development of wizards / Buttons to turn on LED's

« on: August 14, 2008, 11:31:52 PM »

I looked through most of the posts in this section and not sure were to start on this code:(

I want to have 6 buttons with Led's next to them when you push one button the led next to it lights up when you push another button the led next that button lights up and the previous one goes off. 
Any one see a sample VB code for this and were will the code need to go(macro pump)?  Does each button need its own code?

I made the buttons and leds, can I use any OemLed number over 1000 for the led?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Monty's Problematic Contraption

« on: May 21, 2008, 10:14:10 PM »

I have two boards from these guys and they are running good:
http://www.cnc4pc.com/Store/osc/index.php?cPath=33&osCsid=c1e4b8bdadabbbe7523eb337a60a8509

I have a C1G and C11G.

Have you been on cnczone.com in the Bridgeport section? years of reading but great info that will save you $$$ and time.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: May 21, 2008, 10:05:00 PM »

I have been collecting parts for plasma cutter also and one note about the MAX200 units is their consumable life is very short compared to a hydef unit.  The max200 gets ~200 or less starts and the other ones get over 1,000 starts on electrodes.   So I got one of these:
http://img138.imageshack.us/my.php?image=allld5.jpg
http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=torchxq6.jpg

It's a Thermal Arc 500 amp power source with everything included.