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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tangential control manualy?

« on: April 23, 2008, 09:05:01 PM »

Take a look at this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw26uiCQHwA

I'm wondering if I put a line laser on the saw head and position the blade cut direction manually, can I get mach3 to follow the cutting direction of the blade when jogging?

Some times some quick cuts need to be made and programming is extra work.

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General Mach Discussion / Tangential control manualy?

« on: April 22, 2008, 10:56:38 PM »

Is it possible in Mach3 to position the A axis in tangential control mode and then when you jog the machine will follow the path of the A axis position?

Thanks

Dennis

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Brains Development / Pport inputs in binary with Brains?

« on: April 22, 2008, 10:26:03 PM »

Any one use brains to read four  inputs as binary from a Pport and decoding it to act as 10 or so inputs?

I'm just thinking of using the Pport instead of adding a PLC. 

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: hubbard relay board troubles

« on: April 19, 2008, 08:18:04 PM »

Did you check to see if the there is output on the pin when active with a volt meter?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Identify Motor Type

« on: April 08, 2008, 11:05:19 PM »

You will need something like this:


the forward rev is cc/ccw

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Identify Motor Type

« on: April 07, 2008, 09:32:13 PM »

The motors are steppers and as for voltage and amps start at 35V and 3 amps and keep adding till the drive or motor start to get warm then back off a little,  thats how I do it. 

The drive looks like a Parker stepper drive if you go to the parker site and look through the pictures of old manuals you might find the same one.  The drive has cc/ccw input you can use that input with step/dir with a little logic.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Candidate ? ? ?

« on: April 02, 2008, 11:02:27 PM »

There is also dynamotion controllers that will run analogue drives in real time closed loop with Mach3:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41019

http://dynomotion.com/

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Visualmill post proc. for Mach 3

« on: April 02, 2008, 11:00:26 PM »

I use the Mach2 post and works perfect every time just need to delete the G43 line.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: resolver to digital

« on: April 02, 2008, 12:05:06 AM »

You have regular quadrature encoders that are the same standard as today.   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: resolver to digital

« on: March 31, 2008, 09:50:11 PM »

You mean the Galil will take a resolver signal?  The only thing that can go back to Mach3 is a quadrature encoder pulse but is only use to keep track of position not a real time closed loop servo system the Galil card closes the loop between it self and the resolvers/ motors.