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General Mach Discussion / Re: UC400ETH soft limit problem

« on: April 23, 2019, 08:32:30 AM »

1. If your port 2 of UC400ETH is unconnected you need to pull up or pull down all the input pins (see attached).
It is TTL logic NECESSITY.

This is NOT NECESSARY.

If you aren't using the port, then Mach3 does not even look at the pins.

People on CNCZONE already had false triggering of limit switches with UC400ETH even in 2017. So if CNCDRIVE had fixed the problem, the updated plugin should be already there for automatic update by now in 2019.

This is not a UC400ETH issue, but a breakout board or wiring issue.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: UC400ETH soft limit problem

« on: April 22, 2019, 07:36:11 PM »

Again, you need to send this info to CNC Drive. If it's a bug in their plugin, they'll fix it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: UC400ETH soft limit problem

« on: April 22, 2019, 01:46:01 PM »

Send an email to CNC Drive describing the problem.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reversed Jog, on Jog TAB / Control Screen

« on: April 22, 2019, 08:45:23 AM »

If it jigs the wrong way, then your axes are setup backwards.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Step pulse duty cycle

« on: April 19, 2019, 06:42:33 PM »

Motors laying on a bench will tend to stall easily, due to resonance. Set your microstep to 1/8 (1600 steps/rev), and it should stall less. If possible, bolt the steppers to a board while testing, and that should also help.

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Mach Screens / Re: chinese cnc probing macros?

« on: April 19, 2019, 06:31:10 PM »

I suspect that it's your XHC card. I know that some people could not get that card to work correctly.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Step pulse duty cycle

« on: April 19, 2019, 10:51:15 AM »

Oh, he's talking about the pulse width.......

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Step pulse duty cycle

« on: April 19, 2019, 10:09:28 AM »

My guess is that would be a setting in the drive?

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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Is closed loop package required for use with Servo motors and drivers?

« on: April 18, 2019, 12:00:48 PM »

No, not if you are using step/direction drives that close the loop in the drive.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: StepCraft inlcuding a WinPC-NC USB-Module

« on: April 17, 2019, 09:01:53 AM »

Yes, it will work in Windows 10. Get a UC100, like most Stepcraft machines use, and plug it into the parallel interface card.
https://www.stepcraft.us/shop/product/10100-parallel-module-15?category=5