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General Mach Discussion / Re: Smooth Stepper questions

« on: September 29, 2013, 12:38:21 PM »

Do you power up your controller before starting Mach or after?

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 28, 2013, 06:22:34 PM »

Are you just trying to verify the output voltage of the PP? Btw, hook up an estop and assign it a pin. You do get 0 volt if not pushing any key, right?

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 28, 2013, 06:20:40 PM »

Are you just trying to verify the output voltage of the PP? Btw, hook up an estop and assign it a pin.

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 27, 2013, 08:16:25 AM »

Look in the general configuration page, uncheck "use watchdog timers".

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 27, 2013, 08:14:35 AM »

First , Yes the G540 can be used to run more than one machine but as you can see, there are difficulties.

When referencing or homing only one axis moves at a time, Mach knows which axis are moving and which direction. When the switch is tripped, it zeros the DRO and moves to the next axis. The reason I said this, is you could gang the limit/home switches to one pin if desired including the A axis.

Also when referencing an axis that doesn't have a switch (and or that switch is not enabled), that axis will reset to zero (or whatever value you have placed in (Home Off) in the homing/limits box.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Parallel cable question?

« on: September 26, 2013, 09:48:13 PM »

Are you using an adapter or a complete cable? I had a problem with the metal shell of a DB25 cable touching the case, a plastic adapter solved it. Mine now works but I know there must be a grounding issue. Let sleeping dogs lie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 stops responding while running programs

« on: September 26, 2013, 09:35:27 PM »

I ran a program without the motors being plugged in and it ran all the way through

Is that all you did, disconnect the steppers? Did you change any of the power settings? Check the USB settings?

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 25, 2013, 12:50:27 PM »

Turn it off in "general configuration".

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 24, 2013, 09:10:14 PM »

Generally the error or reason for trigger will be displayed "E stop requested" or "limit switch triggered".
 
This just seems to happen randomly? Do have any debounce set in general configuration?

Do you have limit and or home switches too?

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General Mach Discussion /

« on: September 24, 2013, 09:06:39 PM »

Is your motor tuning calibrated accurately? Does it actually go the correct distance even upon reversal (backlash 0 or compensated for?)
Are your limits and home switches both enabled? Or just 1 of those? Do you have any debounce? If so how much? If the number is too high then the machine would keep traveling until that time period after the switch was triggered.