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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 28, 2021, 04:06:35 PM »

It will be a couple of days till I get out to the shop

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Linux support

« on: March 22, 2020, 07:20:13 PM »

I was just hoping that with the expiration of support of Win 7 and the various problems of the newer versions of Windows that there would be more interest in Linux. I would imagine that supporting Mach4 with Windows being the platform on which it runs, will eventually cause to program to get so quirky no one will be able to use it. Just a thought

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Mach4 General Discussion / Linux support

« on: March 22, 2020, 02:59:56 PM »

Was reading through some Mach4 documentation and saw a reference to Linux. Any idea if or when we might see a Linux version?

thanks
bill a.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 lathe x zeroing on a part?

« on: March 22, 2020, 02:34:56 PM »

I have done that, but I haven't had much luck in establishing X0. Does it require me to pretend to have a turret and set up tool four? The Newfangled Lathe Turret Standard suggests that Mach4 is assuming a turret. Also I am assuming that for the purposes of using lathe wizards that I am in diameter mode. On my machine which is a converted manual machine my skim cuts result in negative X values, which the Mach4Hobby lathe wizards balk at. Any suggestions?

thanks
bill a.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 21, 2020, 08:46:15 PM »

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll probably review all the forums before upgrading my other ShopTask.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 21, 2020, 10:40:18 AM »

I have a USB smooth stepper that never worked for threading and crashed on a regular basis. I bought it over 10 years ago and although I kept looking for updates or fixes they never appeared. When they came out with the ESS I did not hurry out to buy one. In fact it surprises me that they are still in business. I am using a PMDX411 one of the first to support Mach4, still works, crashes from time to time but no where near the frequency of the Warp9 product. Just sayin'

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 19, 2020, 11:11:02 AM »

Thanks, I did get to around 10% I was just getting anal with all those various parameters having an effect.

bill a

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 18, 2020, 08:36:38 PM »

I think I found it!!! The C081 parameter scales the input voltage seen by the VFD. But the A011 - A015 parameters have an effect also. If someone has already figured this out please share. With all the parameters on this VFD I am hoping to be able to control spindle speed down to the rpm

thanks
bill a.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 18, 2020, 08:05:31 PM »

Many thanks to those who replied. I have it running the spindle now both fwd & rev from mach4. I still haven't got the speed calibrated but I know Mach4 is sending a control voltage to the vfd. I proved this by setting the pin 14 output to low and had the vfd run away. When I reset it to high and sent a M3 S400 from the MDI it took off and went to 1354 rpm. I was able to reduce the rpm with the spindle override, dropping it all the way down to 908 rpm at 50%. I am hoping that you might have some additional parameters to set in the VFD to calibrate the voltage fed from the gecko to the rpm output of the VFD.

thanks
bill a

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Configuring Mach4 with Hitachi WJ200 without Modbus

« on: March 18, 2020, 11:45:25 AM »

I know how to configure a VFD, I have the WJ200 manual. My motors are running fine manually with the external control panel. I have wired the Gecko 540 and can turn the VFD off and on, Forward and Reverse through Mach4. I can't control the speed using the the 10v reference pin H and logic gnd L to the G540 and pin 14 on the Gecko back to pin EA on the VFD. I have set the PMDX411 to PWM and pin 14. I have set A001 to 06. If you can tell me how you have set your VFD to use PWM/0-10v to control the speed through Mach4 I would appreciate it as I can't seem to make it work.
Thanks
Bill A.