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Works in progress / Re: Another new screen

« on: January 15, 2009, 01:32:14 PM »

I'm having a look at it now and I was curious to know as what use is the simulate run button if you don't have an elapsed time DRO? Do you somehow utilize that for something else?

Dave

That's why I wanted feedback. Never used the simulate button. So It works with the elapsed time DRO? Thanks. I'll look into that later.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does Smoothstepper smooth acceleration?

« on: January 13, 2009, 05:31:21 PM »

The smoother pulses may make your motors run smoother, which may make them go faster, but unless Mach's kernel speed is limiting your speed, the Smoothstepper doesn't do anything that would give you more speed.

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Works in progress / Re: Another new screen

« on: January 13, 2009, 05:24:11 PM »

Just looking for comments, don't need any testing, although it'd be nice to know everything works correctly on other PC's.

Fictional??? 

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Works in progress / Re: Another new screen

« on: January 13, 2009, 07:41:00 AM »

The FRO label/button is an LED that changes when FRO is active. I wanted to duplicate this functionality with the spindle override. Unfortunately, there doen't appear to be a spindle override LED.
Here's my workaround:

Create a user LED for spindle override, and create a Brain that toggles the LED if spindle override is less than 100%. (OEM DRO 74) ( I have the spindle override set to 50%-100%). I believe that if you wanted more than 100% override, a second Brain (or Lobe??) could handle this as well.

One thing I noticed, though, is that I need to use an S word in the initialization string to make sure the spindle speed is not "too slow for pulley" when Mach3 starts. I haven't tried with the pulley min set to 0, but that might work. The S in the initialization seems to work fine.

Question is, is there somewhere else that spindle speed is specified when Mach starts? I'm using OEM DRO 202 for the spindle speed.

PS. These images are full size screen captures with Mach3 running at 1280x1024, so you can see that it looks pretty good.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Switching Axis

« on: January 13, 2009, 07:17:11 AM »

Any time I've seen this question asked, it's turned out that the machine was set up incorrectly and actually moving in the wrong direction. Is X+ to the right and U+ up? Or are you using a non standard configuration?

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Works in progress / Re: Another new screen

« on: January 12, 2009, 07:44:22 PM »

No guinea pigs??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "Limit Switch Triggered"

« on: January 12, 2009, 11:10:26 AM »

25,000 X 40uS....long time....

I'm not saying to run the machine like that, but see if it gets rid of the false triggers. If it does, then it's most likely your getting noise.

Also, you mention 12V, but aren't they really wired to 5V? If they are 12V, what are they connected to?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "Limit Switch Triggered"

« on: January 12, 2009, 09:07:36 AM »

Set the debounce to 25,000 (or even higher) and see if it works. If it does, then it's noise on the switch lines. This seems to be the most common problem I see posted, and it's not easy to tell you how to fix it.

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Modbus / Re: modbus cubloc help wanted

« on: January 11, 2009, 01:47:46 PM »

Might be someinfo here.

http://www.henriksplace.se/CNC/CNC_Mach3_modbus_1.html

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Works in progress / Re: Another new screen

« on: January 11, 2009, 09:09:13 AM »

Home All buttons don't work, and Reset on Run screen doesn't work either. oops.