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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program Stops Running
« on: July 21, 2011, 12:45:23 PM »
I restarted Mach3 and ran my program again, this time I got through the drilling cycle, During the counterboring the Y axis lost steps and then the program stopped.

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General Mach Discussion / Program Stops Running
« on: July 21, 2011, 12:40:38 PM »
I have a pretty simple program that I am having problems with. If I run the program with the spindle off the program runs fine. When I run the spindle it will stop running at different times in the program, but typically near the beginning of the run. What appears to be the problem is the Z axis. The first part of the program there are 8 holes that are drilled, the second is 8 counterbores around the holes. The last step of the program is a circular cutout and a square cutout. The last step the Z axis is not rapiding up and down so it appears that the rapid Z axis movement with the spindle running is the problem. I've changed my Step Pulse and Dir Pulse, I originally had it set to 1, I then changed to 2, I got through the drilling cycle, but the program stopped running. I changed to 3 and the program stopped in the drilling cycle. I have no idea where to start or what to do.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach doing it again
« on: July 19, 2011, 10:32:41 PM »
Can you elaborate a bit, I don't know which pins to use on the VFD. I thoink I may have found a way to wire this, but I would rather here your idea.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach doing it again
« on: July 19, 2011, 08:24:00 PM »
Hi Guys, thanks for the help. Turns out the parallel port cable came unseated :-[ Boy do I feel dumb. I ran a few test programs and everything seems like it is going to work properly. I have two things I need to do. I want to be able to turn my VFD on and off with the "Spindle" button. I have a SoundLogic BOB and an Hitachi L100 VFD. I know there is a way to use the relay on the BOB to turn the VFD on, but I couldn't quite figure out the wiring for it. I also have a spindle control board, but I can change always change the spindle speed on the VFD when I need to. Second thing I need to do is hook up my proximity switches. They are three wire, blue, brown and black. I'm not sure which is +, ground and switching. Also I'm not too sure on how to configure Mach3 for this.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach doing it again
« on: July 18, 2011, 08:54:30 PM »
Hi Guys, I haven't been here for awhile, but.... awhile ago I was having some serious problems with Mach3 on a BP conversion that I did. It didn't matter what I did I couldn't get Mach3 to run successfully, I decided that I couldn't deal with this anymore so I went with another companies product. Fast forward to today.... I have a FlexiCam router that I decided would be a good canidate for Mach3. I took a PC that I have and had Windows7 32bit installed on it. After about a day of messing around I got all of the axis moving correctly. I ran a few simple programs numerous times (not cutting, just cutting air), everything seems fine. At the end of the day I decided to run the gantry back to the center of the table and Mach3 is back at it again! The X axis are fighting each other. I checked my port and pin settings and they are set the same way they where when I was running my programs. I reversed the setting on the A axis and still the same problem. I tried to run the Z axis up by pushing the PGUP key, it went up. I push the PGDN key and the Z axis still goes up. I double check and reset the Hot Keys. Still the same thing. I shut Mach3 down and restart it, same problems. What is up with this? I can't believe that this is happening again, any thoughts on what to look for? Anything that can be done to prevent this?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up rack and pinion
« on: July 17, 2011, 10:07:25 PM »
Where is the "Settings" page? I also need to set up a table router with rack and pinion. Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach did again!
« on: October 07, 2010, 10:56:47 PM »
Hi Guys, I have changed to a different machine program and none of the issues that I was having with the origin changing or whatever we want to call it are happening. I would like to thank everyone who has helped, especially Hood, Steve at PMDX and David Cole of Cole Controls, but I still believe that there is a bug somewhere that is creeping up.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach did again!
« on: October 01, 2010, 12:28:52 AM »
I have done what you said, occasionally I will bump the escape key. Unfortunately I don't believe the problems I am experiencing are operator related. I wish it was and I could fire myself.


You know, this does remind me of some problems I was having. In one case a program restarted itself from the beginning, rather than continuing on from Hold; in another case the tool on the Z axis tried to go through the floor. There were others.

But careful investigation showed that by and large, all my problems happened in conjunction with my interacting with the system. Further careful checking showed that they fell into two classes.
Class 1: I forgot to zero the Z-axis after changing tooling.
Class 2: I accidentally bumped the keyboard or the mouse, causing all sorts of havoc with resets, zeroes and edits.

I did try to blame the machine, but long experience with computer systems told me otherwise. It was an operator effect. (That's me.) And in every case of course, the machine coordinates were correct, even if the user coordinates were ... aberrant. So I learnt (am still learning) to avoid playing with the mouse and the keyboard while the machine is running, and to check every action. In fact, sometimes I deliberately put an M1 after an M6, to make me check.

Now, I am not saying that my problems are the cause of your problems, but one has to wonder. After all, the hiccups seem to happen only after operator action, and certainly not every time. At the very least, it may be worth looking for this.

Cheers


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pulsing Too Fast
« on: September 30, 2010, 11:01:07 PM »
I checked and Mach was not running. I have a smooth flat line.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach did again!
« on: September 30, 2010, 08:26:28 PM »
I do not use G54 or G55 in my code.

Could the problem lie in my pulses being to fast? Parallel Port?

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