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General Mach Discussion / Re: Found my problem

« on: August 04, 2010, 01:42:45 PM »

No. It was connected to one of the power supply plugs. The cable was 18 ga shielded and about 4 ft. long. Since the PC was unaffected I am thinkng there could have been a minor voltage drop across the cable. The supply I used had a good solid 5v output and I mounted it in the control box with the breakout board.

An XP pc will power down devices to conserve power and sometimes you will need to go into the device manerger to stop it and somtimes the bios also . Win7 seems not to do it as long the power settings are set to high perfomance

glad you got it fixed this sight has helped me a lot also

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General Mach Discussion / Touch Screen Tough Book 2 day sale 410

« on: August 04, 2010, 01:17:26 PM »

this seems like a good way to try a touch screen. My regular tough book seemed to run mach fine and it cost me 2500 3 years ago.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6076260&CatId=4947 tiger direct $410

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Bass Boat Dash Plates

« on: July 01, 2010, 01:34:57 PM »

thanks for the info.  my boat is getting up there,

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Bass Boat Dash Plates

« on: June 30, 2010, 09:15:44 PM »

Nice work

And can I ask where you got the material and what it is?

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: June 30, 2010, 12:34:18 PM »

is that broke?, you make nice stuff

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General Mach Discussion / Re: my computer has no parallel port, please recommend PCI parallel port card

« on: June 14, 2010, 01:59:02 PM »

I've use  stuff from tiger, see below.

they all seem to work if installed corectly with newer msi mainboards and amd/ati chipsets any way, also most computers have the ports just no connector. look in the bios too see and just buy the header cable(s), they are like 10 dollars. msi has a less common pin conecter for the parrerel but easy to find.....

one other tip is if you need to put more then one board in use differnt manufacturers to keep irq conflicks to a minimum

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?cat=1422&keywords=pci cards&mnf=2531 serial

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=512 parr

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hot stepper motor

« on: June 02, 2010, 09:56:51 PM »

check the movment with a ruller, if you tell it to move 6 inches and it moves 5 or 7 ect. then the steps setup may be wrong.  happend to me and the motors got hot quick and sounded funny. when there wright they sound smooth..... sorry for the limited vocabulary

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2 Spindles 0-volts on 2 pins?

« on: May 22, 2010, 01:20:37 PM »

i should be able to use one of your boards to drive the kbsi 240d, which drives the 2 motors with a knob.

another question if I use a "tach kit" will/can Mach maintain a set speed?

teach me

PS. like your store

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2 Spindles 0-volts on 2 pins?

« on: May 22, 2010, 12:06:20 PM »

I want to be able to face 4"-4-1/8" square with 1 pass single point, the head stock is mounted on a plate with no z movement. the other is suface grinding with a rotory table and 4 inch wheel at 5000 rpm

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2 Spindles 0-volts on 2 pins?

« on: May 22, 2010, 12:30:05 AM »

2 motors 1 spindle, I type bad