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General Mach Discussion / Re: BT30 spindle from scratch - with power drawbar and ATC of course

« on: October 20, 2012, 09:20:22 PM »

Let us know WHEN you get it slinging chips AND changing tools realtime. We can take up a collection and send the case of beer(;-)

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Allen Bradely drives to Sanyo denki motors ?

« on: October 20, 2012, 09:14:13 PM »

AHHHH NOPE I did not know about enabling the chip(;-)


OK I take that back I see on the board that pin 12 IS going to VCC

I found a WISKER hiding on the board hopefully that may have been the problem.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Allen Bradely drives to Sanyo denki motors ?

« on: October 20, 2012, 07:12:15 PM »

YES it goes to pin 2. I have a good set of signals going into the LD on the scope but nothing coming out I check from S+ to com and Dir+ tto com.

Back to the drawing board and get out the magnifing glasses again. I need to double double check the chip for the key location to make sure it is in correctly.

I also checked the drive by running the step lines to the drive S+ and S- and got nothing from the drive.

I also double checked the drive set and it is set to FOLLOW step and direction.



(;-)TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Allen Bradely drives to Sanyo denki motors ?

« on: October 20, 2012, 05:48:55 PM »

SO if I apply the steps output from the BOB to the steps input on the drive pin 14/15 it should at least move?

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Allen Bradely drives to Sanyo denki motors ?

« on: October 20, 2012, 05:14:03 PM »

OK so far I have not been able to make it work. Everything looks right(;-)

SO is there a way to test the output of the line driver ?   

Is there a way to test the inputs of the DRIVE to make sure that part works?

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Any new WIZARD ideas to work on ???

« on: October 20, 2012, 11:28:48 AM »

OK no one needs any wizards so I will close that book and move on to another project(;-)

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: rotary axis has stops moving

« on: October 19, 2012, 07:31:03 PM »

Sounds like you may have a soft limit set for the A axis .

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run From Here hangs on M03

« on: October 19, 2012, 07:24:46 PM »

Can you post the macro that does the ignor? I don't see the RFH automatically restarting the torch WHERE it is suppose to restart UNLESS you are going back to a before the  M3 point.

I have an auto restart routine that takes you back to the LINE before the stop point and will restart the torch and do so IN an arc BUT it is cantackerous with different versions of mach3.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BT30 spindle from scratch - with power drawbar and ATC of course

« on: October 19, 2012, 05:04:36 PM »

A motor drive with a link could give you a slow start /stop zone. It would start slow then speed up through the swing to MID swing then slow down as it came to a stop.  The link creates this feature with the motor running at constant speed NO motor speed controls needed.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BT30 spindle from scratch - with power drawbar and ATC of course

« on: October 19, 2012, 04:55:07 PM »

Ray did you give any thoughts to doing a MOTOR drive to swing the arm instead of air. I worry about the constant BANGING at the end of stroke with the air.

Just curious, (;-) TP