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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 26, 2011, 09:23:35 PM »
Yes, I bet it does. I have a SS thats 3 years old, and I have not done that modification.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 26, 2011, 08:45:38 PM »
Interesting. Noise makes sense as I can get the M110 code run without the SS hooked up and I can run the M110 without the estop triggering at the end.

So it only does it with the relay actually activating and un-activating...


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 26, 2011, 08:29:34 PM »
I renamed it M110 and I can now enter that in the MDI and it will trigger the relay.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 26, 2011, 08:25:40 PM »
I tried M11 in the MDI, no luck...

I will rename it and try it again.

Any idea why the estop triggers upon the relay "un-activating"?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 26, 2011, 08:20:01 PM »
In the past several hours since I last posted I have removed the C25 board and connected the SS to the C11 with the ribbon cable.

I have mach 3 set up for output 1 being pin 1. when I run this-

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
ActivateSignal(OUTPUT1)


Sleep(8000)


DeactivateSignal(OUTPUT1) 
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
I get the C11 board activating pin 1 and triggering the relay for 8 seconds.

I have managed to wire up the solenoid to 24v- on one connection and the relay triggers the 24v+, this keeps the turret locked down until I run the script and the turret pops up for 8 seconds and then locks down again...

so...I am fairly functional. took me 11 hours though...

I also get the Estop triggering when the relay shuts off after 8 seconds.

I can run the above script, but I have not found any thing that I can enter into the MDI that will execute that code. Note I have the script saved as M11.m1s in the lathe macros folder. I made up M11, as I did not know what to name the script.

Any ideas?


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 26, 2011, 02:11:18 PM »
Thanks for everyones input so far. I am still trying to figure out one thing though...

how do I set up an output pin on the SS C25 BOB to trigger the relay on my C11 BOB?

I woulds like to be able to do the following-

Type a command into MDI that will trigger a relay that will power my air solenoid. I would also like to be able to trigger the relay in G code with the VB script, but right now my most important objective is to have a button or MDI input command that will fire my relay and thus acticate my air solenoid.

I have the following-

Mach 3
SS
SS C25 BOB
C11 BOB
24V PS for the air solenoid
Air solenoid

I have set up Mach/Config/portspins/outputsignals to have output 1 enabled on port 1 pin 14. I have it set to active high so that I can have output 1 activate pin 14 to be 5vdc. I can then run that 5vdc to the C11 BOB to activate the relay that will send the 24v to the air solenoid...

How do I get mach 3 to trigger output 1, and thus make pin 14 have 5VDC?

Then, how do i run the 5VDC into the C11 BOB and make it trigger one of the (onboard) relay?

Also, how do I wire the 24VDC into the C11 BOB relay and how do I wire the 24VDC out from the relay.

Sheoot, seems like the only thing I know how to do is run 24VDC to the solinoid to manually trigger the air solenoid. This is quite entertaining BTW, and I managed to throughly impress my GF!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 21, 2011, 06:53:18 PM »
Alright "now we're cooking" american slang for- Things are moving right along now...

I found that I had saved the macro you wrote in the wrong mach 3 macro folder...

I can now index from G code to all 8 turret positions.

How can I add the DRO for the A Axis? I have never changed the standard mach3 screen...

Also, will that dro allow me to manually enter ********* number, press enter and have the a axis be then oriented to ********* number? 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 21, 2011, 03:54:33 PM »
I read through, and searched the PDF on macro language. (is this language called VB?) you can tell how green I am at this...

I found definitions for all the terms except-

WhileIsMoving
Wend
EndIf

I am guessing that they were so basic as programming commands that it was not deemed nessisary to define them?


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 21, 2011, 02:30:21 PM »
Yes, i'm using the stock default mach3 turn screen set.

I will look into the VB manual..

Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 toolchange for dummies???
« on: February 21, 2011, 02:20:37 PM »
Gotcha on the steps per...

I have enabled auto tool changer on the config page. I will try again later today, but I am sure that it was enabled when I was testing yesterday...

Position 1= tool position 1 ie: 0 degrees. for some reason I can get the A axis to move to tool 2-8, but I cant move to 1. 

Is there a list of terms for the Vbasic program? I would like to be able to decipher what you have written.

Thanks!

Nate.


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