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General Mach Discussion / Re: Booting streight into Mach

« on: November 20, 2009, 03:07:01 PM »

This guy has a kick a$$ program made that will not only do what you want but it will make mach run even faster.

http://www.gbcdepot.com/m3s/

good luck

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Toggle ON/OFF output VB Script?

« on: October 30, 2009, 07:31:39 AM »

button code:

If IsOutputActive(OUTPUT6) Then
DeActivateSignal(OUTPUT6)
else
ActivateSignal(OUTPUT6)
end if

LED code:
and if you want an LED to go on and off with the button select (Output 6 Active LED) for that LED
(OEM code 79) for output 6

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Which BOB for the smooth stepper

« on: October 15, 2009, 07:30:50 PM »

If and when a new update comes out I will give it a shot again, but too many little bugs at the moment and have seen it do dangerous stuff, I dont have any ground loops and the VFD is outside the case and its only supplied with isolated 0-10v and direction line of course. have not had issues on the parallel port as of yet, I just liked the idea of having it usb thats why I tried them, I was hoping they would be out of beta by now and the minor stuff fixed. I fear alot of people maybe left in the cold but I hope not, its like its just an update away from being very good.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Which BOB for the smooth stepper

« on: October 15, 2009, 07:18:52 PM »

It must like 50hz better lol.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Which BOB for the smooth stepper

« on: October 15, 2009, 07:01:15 PM »

I have used C23 from cnc4pc and they work great and have all the features you will ever need, that being said they are horrible running on the smoothstepper. If you are uisng two/one parallel ports they are fantastic, the SS is really buggy it dose some strange stuff and I would not recomend it on a production machine, or if you are cutting expensive material or care about safety. If and when the unit comes out of beta which I doubt we will ever see, use the parallel port until it dose, its not ready for prime time as the beta version suggests. If you need really high stepping frequency you may have no choice, I dont know if the kflop is ready or if it has issues but might be a better alternative.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smooth Stepper Times Out.

« on: August 18, 2009, 10:32:09 AM »

Can you guys recover with a click of the reset to get SS control back? I cant even get it to do that, i have to restart mach.

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SmoothStepper USB / Smooth Stepper Times Out.

« on: August 17, 2009, 03:33:53 PM »

I have a smooth stepper and if I am moving to a position and in mach, and at the same time click on say the homing/limits(tool table but can be any menu item) the Smooth stepper loses communications.
could this be the PC too slow?
celeron 2.4 gig
2 gig RAM
gforce mx video card
usb1.1

dose it matter if its usb 2.0 or 1.1?

Also when I get timeout error and rest wont clear it and have to restart mach.

any help will be apreciated.

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Brains Development / Re: I can Smell your Brain's

« on: July 04, 2009, 08:00:13 AM »

Thanks,

Let play time begin.

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Brains Development / I can Smell your Brain's

« on: June 26, 2009, 09:50:10 PM »

Hi Everyone

I have a small problem with my retorfit, everything is working perfect except for one issue. I am using an MPG4 pendant from cnc4pc into an SS board, step mode works fine but my issue arrives in velocity mode. when press enable and rotate the mpg it works fine speeds up and slows down accordingly, but when i rotate the pendant and release the enable button at the same time the axis keeps moving at that speed without any rotation, if i press the enable button it stops. I know one solution is "dont do that" but it could be rather dangerous if left as is.  I am no way a programmer and did have a look at the brains but i think the problem is in the area on the input where it is based on the condition (ismoving) it don't seem to check if the enable triggers are still true, far as i can tell, if anyone has an idea it would be greatly appreicated.

Thanks.