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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Re: Need Help! DSPMC Setup

« on: March 29, 2013, 06:37:27 PM »

I will be back at the machine tomorrow am.  Will give it a shot and report back.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Re: Need Help! DSPMC Setup

« on: March 29, 2013, 05:56:51 PM »

J2 goes to a standard bob not a 7535.  The signal grounds on J2 have a solid connection to earth ground according to my meter.  The 5v supply was already in there so I just wired it up, it's closer to the bobs.  The 5v supply has a solid connection to earth ground as well.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Re: Need Help! DSPMC Setup

« on: March 29, 2013, 04:36:56 PM »

double checked the 10v and ground signals to the servo drive and they are good.  ground has a good connection to earth.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Re: Need Help! DSPMC Setup

« on: March 29, 2013, 04:28:22 PM »

Thank you Rufi for the prompt response.

I have good earth grounds to the DSPMC and also both the 5v and 24v external power supplies.  My set up is a bit different than you drawing.  I have a 7535N, 5v power from the exernal supply, for my digital i/o and standard db25 bobs for j2, j6 and j7.  Everything going through the 7535N is working properly.  The encoder inputs in j6 and j7 seem to be working properly, I can see the movement in Mach and it does appear to be correct distances.

The message bar in Mach says "estop button pressed", the physical button clearly is not and the input led agrees.

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dspMC/IP Motion Controller / Need Help! DSPMC Setup

« on: March 29, 2013, 02:13:57 PM »

Setting up a DSPMC with Delta servos and drives.  I have the drives set to speed control mode with ±10V input.  X Y and Z are wired to Ch0, 1, 2 respectively.  Differential encoder outputs from the drives wired to their respective inputs on the DSPMC.  I'm having trouble getting the DSPMC to arm.  I gives me a constant Estop signal in Mach regardless of the position of the estop button.  I can see the estop input turn on and off as it should on the diagnostics page.  The limits/home switches are also set properly.  Everytime I hit the reset button it flashes and jumps back into the reset mode.  The dros/encoder counts jump a little and the servos do move some.  I must be missing something, probably something simple I'm sure.  I'm going to head out to re-check all the connections...again.  And review the servo parameters again.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

TOM

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Password protect a button?

« on: April 25, 2010, 08:56:09 PM »

That is exactly what I was looking for.  Nice work!!!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Password protect a button?

« on: April 19, 2010, 01:16:07 PM »

Hmmm....interesting approach.  I like the idea, but I don't think it'd work any better than what we've got going now.  I'm using an input box for password input, then if the password is correct navigate to the set up screens.  This uses a hidden button and to the untrained operator it's like the other screens don't even exist.

Thank you for the input.

TOM

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Password protect a button?

« on: March 02, 2010, 05:18:43 PM »

For regular VB it is that simple.  But in Mach the option for a password box is not available, I talked to Brian about it.  It could be done playing some shell games, but didn't sound worth it and a little over my abilities, right now.  I am currently using a hidden button, and getting by.  Just thought it'd be cool to have a password box.  Oh well...maybe a possible addition in the future? 

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VB and the development of wizards / Password protect a button?

« on: January 21, 2010, 07:56:22 AM »

I'm using a button to toggle screens using ToggleScreens().  I'd like to password protect the button so operators can't get to the set up screens.  I've got the password working fine using the Inputbox Function and TextBox Statement (done it both ways, works either way).  My problem is getting the input box to display password characters (i.e. " * ") instead of the actual typed characters.  Does anybody know how to do this, or if it is even possible?

Thanks for the help.

TOM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Couple of questions about loading GCode

« on: January 19, 2010, 01:52:19 PM »

Worked like a charm. Thanks!