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PoKeys / Re: Help with E-stop switch is not properly configured

« on: October 05, 2015, 10:44:37 AM »

I would like to just raise another slight confusion. Setting up Mach the axis configuration refers to motor0 onwards. Your system refers to motor1 onwards. You have to keep remembering this difference when setting things up. I am sure that tidying up your documentation  etc would be very helpful.

Thank you for raising this concern. The problem is that we have the axis numbered on our hardware and changing that is not as simple as correcting a display value in software. We will see what we can do.

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PoKeys / Re: Help with E-stop switch is not properly configured

« on: October 04, 2015, 11:39:27 PM »

We try to make boards as customizable as possible, but this option is not possible at the moment. There are dedicated inputs for each axis and the mapping of these can not be changed (at the moment). We will discuss this one and see what we can do.

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PoKeys / Re: Help with E-stop switch is not properly configured

« on: October 02, 2015, 12:01:04 AM »

Of course this is possible. Simply disable the limits that you are not using in the Mach4 Inputs configuration as noted in the previous post and PoKeys should not complain any more.

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PoKeys / Re: Help with E-stop switch is not properly configured

« on: September 30, 2015, 10:19:27 AM »

PoKeys devices support 3 switches per axis. The number of switches and its configuration is configured in the plugin settings.

1. Make sure that you have the 'Automatically map Mach4 signals' UNCHECKED in PoKeys plugin settings
2. Check what you have configured for the home, limit+ and limit- switches in Mach4 Inputs dialog (see attached images). The unused switches should be marked with 'Mapping disabled'. In the configuration below, all switches are enabled and used separately.

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PoKeys / Re: Help with E-stop switch is not properly configured

« on: September 29, 2015, 04:30:27 PM »

You have two issues:
1. Limit+ switches are all activated. Check the configured polarity.
2. Take a look at the manuals that are attached to the plugin in the zip file. The pendant document describes the states of the pendant signals. You should click on the 'Inv.' column of the 'Emergency switch' row to invert this signal.

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PoKeys / Re: Help with E-stop switch is not properly configured

« on: September 28, 2015, 11:44:01 PM »

Hi, Alan

Check the following:
- do you have the latest version of Mach4 and PoKeys plugins?
- open the Diagnostic > PoKeys plugin and observe the status boxes for limit inputs. Are there any green boxes (activated switch)?
- switch to Machine diagnostics tab and observe the I/O statuses. Is there any switch marked as activated?
- did you enable Pendant option in the wizard when adding the device? If yes, open the pendant settings, scroll to the bottom of the list and check the status in the 'G' column for the 'Emergency switch'. Does this field have the green background? If yes, check the 'Inv' option for that line.

Regarding the E-stop connection - this is copy-paste from the manual (available at http://www.poscope.com/PoKeys57CNC):

Note: E-stop switch can be connected either to dedicated E-stop connector (red 4-pin connector) or
to pendant connector (a combination of both is also allowed since both are wired in series).
a)  E-stop switch is connected to dedicated 4-pin E-stop connector between pins 2 and 3.
Jumper 'NeST' must be removed and inserted into the pendant connector between pins 4
and 6
b)  E-stop switch is connected to pendant connector (between pins 4 and 6). Jumper 'NeST' must
be present
c)  Two E-stop switches are connected - one to dedicated 4-pin E-stop connector (betwen pins 2
and 3) and one to pendant connector (between pins 4 and 6).

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PoKeys / Re: Can i change the Pulse engine parameters without the Pokeys Program ?

« on: September 13, 2015, 11:54:51 PM »

There is a project setting 'Auto start' - set this one to 'True' and it will start automatically next time.

If your device is detected as PoKeys56E, then it is still running the PoKeys56 series firmware it got shipped with. Update to PoKeys57 series by executing Device > Upgrade firmware in PoKeys application.

The registers 0x09A8 and 0x09A9 contain the encoder/MPG indexes. In order to use the encoder 2 for axis z, write 0 into 0x09A9 (disable encoder 2 for axis y) and write 2 into 0x09AA.
LOAD DL[1]
STORE Bh09A8
LOAD DL[0]
STORE Bh09A9
LOAD DL[2]
STORE Bh09AA

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PoKeys / Re: Can i change the Pulse engine parameters without the Pokeys Program ?

« on: September 13, 2015, 12:20:53 PM »

The jog speed slider is used for button-based jogging, so it does not apply to MPG jog.

Try the example from the attachment. The input 1 is used to activate or deactivate the MPG jogging mode, while the other 4 inputs are used to select the multiplier.

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PoKeys / Re: Can i change the Pulse engine parameters without the Pokeys Program ?

« on: September 13, 2015, 10:01:29 AM »

There is a plan to implement this in more user-friendly way. Unfortunately, it is not an easy thing to do and a long list of other requests are waiting to be implemented beforehand.

If you describe exactly what you want to accomplish, we can provide you with an example for you to start building from.

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PoKeys / Re: Can i change the Pulse engine parameters without the Pokeys Program ?

« on: September 13, 2015, 07:04:46 AM »

Pulse engine can be accessed from PoBlocks.

PoBlocks is our programming environment that allows users to create a program that is executed by the device itself and is stored in the device.

Unfortunately, Pulse engine has so many options that there is no simple block for managing it, so Custom PoIL code can be used to access the Pulse engine registers directly (more info on PoIL and registers can be found in PoIL.pdf document in PoKeys installation folder).
I attached a few examples on configuring and using Pulse engine from PoBlocks.