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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: March 06, 2011, 01:46:17 PM »

I think you were right that 24VDC was a bit much for an onboard relay.

I bought one of the CNC4PC 4-relay boards, and its quite nice/affordable.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: March 06, 2011, 01:39:37 PM »

Hood-

Thanks again for all your help.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: March 06, 2011, 01:38:33 PM »

"As a test I would use a seperate relay and have it working via an output rather than the onboard relay."

Bingo! (american slang for- your guess is correct!)

using an output and having the relay mounted at the machine cured the problem.

Its fully functional (the solenoid system)

Getting closer to having the turret operational!

See-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2chFvo0LLA

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 27, 2011, 09:51:05 PM »

I already have a CNC4PC 4 relay board on the way. I will set it in the base of the lathe with the solenoids and locate the 24VDC PS there also.

I will then set up an output from the BOB, and I am thinking that having the PS/relays and solenoids at the machine instead of the controller will get mach and the SS behaving correctly... 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:43:23 PM »

Well, I tried everything that I could think of. I even tried grounding the solenoid to the BOB, the lathe itself 15ft away from the BOB and having it not grounded at all.

Seems that it might not be feedback from the solenoid. I think that yo may be right about the relay being too close to everything else.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:14:38 PM »

Spoke too soon. still getting SS communication loss...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:12:37 PM »

Changed my estop active settings and went to 1.43 noise filtering and Voila! I can run MDI M110 and not get estop or loss of SS communication!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:07:27 PM »

The relay deactivating with any noise filtering setting for the estop will cause the "init" initilatization led to stop flashing on the SS... so it looks like I either get an estop triggered, or I loose SS communication. *********.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:01:15 PM »

put the estop at 1.43 and it stoped the estop being triggered upon relay releasing, however, mach now "stops responding"...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???

« on: February 26, 2011, 10:43:46 PM »

I busted off both of those items and cut the trace and I still get the estop.