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General Mach Discussion / Re: My X home switch is not backing off after homing this axis.

« on: January 21, 2014, 10:11:45 PM »

I replaced the switch with an identical one. These are very expensive Square D push roller style switches.

Same problem. Actually, when I tested the new switch by temp soldering it it worked again, when I perm soldered and heat shrunk, same issue...

Tried debounce of 200.

I dont get it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My X home switch is not backing off after homing this axis.

« on: January 21, 2014, 05:32:56 PM »

I take it back. The ref leds indeed do turn green, both Y and X.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My X home switch is not backing off after homing this axis.

« on: January 21, 2014, 01:12:38 PM »

I am not in front of it, but I remember that the Y RefLED will turn green and the X RefLED does not.

So, does that mean it is not completing homing the X even though it is tripping the switch? I know the switch is being activated as it stops at it and the M1Home and M2Home leds on the diagnostics page are both lit after homing.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My X home switch is not backing off after homing this axis.

« on: January 21, 2014, 12:58:47 PM »

Is the ref led the box around the X, Y, Z, or 4 that turns green? (on the program run page)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My X home switch is not backing off after homing this axis.

« on: January 21, 2014, 12:20:16 PM »

The error message only pops up if I attempt to home it again after doing the homing once. The error message is something to the effect of- limit switch is activated, please deactivate limit switch before homing machine.

The only reason I found that it is not moving off the X axis home switch is that you can hear it move off the Y switch, and I did not hear it move off the X switch. Sure enough, when looking at the switch , the x axis does not preform the move off of it.

Any thoughts?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: need help with macro to operate scratch built rack style toolchanger. Cat40.

« on: January 21, 2014, 11:54:57 AM »

Between that and going back and getting the "ignore tool change" button to stay unchecked, it is functional!

Thanks so much.

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General Mach Discussion / My X home switch is not backing off after homing this axis.

« on: January 21, 2014, 10:45:39 AM »

The Y axis still homes and backs off, but the X axis only homes, does not back off the switch any more.

What might cause this. Note, I have not made any changes, this just started happening.

XML posted in this thread (forum prevents posting same twice) http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,26374.new.html#new

Thanks!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: need help with macro to operate scratch built rack style toolchanger. Cat40.

« on: January 21, 2014, 10:39:51 AM »

Thanks Gerry.

using T1m6 in MDI did indeed update the tool on the mach 3 program screen. Sadly, it did not actually execute the tool change.

I am getting an "unknown t word" error in the box that reads error msgs at the bottom of the program screen. Is this telling me that my M6start macro has an issue that does not allow it to load correctly into mach when starting up mach?

I tried putting m6 and m6start in my initilization string, seperated by commas and a space.

Should I have no space? no commas and a space?

I have a feeling that the macro is functional in VB, but not functional in Mach/MDI, because it is not loading or loading right.

I am attaching my XML.

Thanks!

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: need help with macro to operate scratch built rack style toolchanger. Cat40.

« on: January 20, 2014, 11:23:26 PM »

Gerry-

Thanks BTW, your notes were helpful. In particular the Sleep is working for the correct time now. is it in milliseconds?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: need help with macro to operate scratch built rack style toolchanger. Cat40.

« on: January 20, 2014, 11:21:40 PM »

The macro above is working. but only when running from the VB editor.

I have renamed in M6Start.m1s and placed it in the macros folder.

I have changed the config to allow for ATC.

Should I not be able to have this macro run and change a tool when I MDI T1 or any other T number I enter?