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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Running more than One Macro Pump

« on: July 17, 2012, 02:56:57 AM »

Hi,

You can only run 1 macropump and it needs to be named macropump.m1s

Just put it all in the one file.

Cheers,

Peter

162

General Mach Discussion / Re: Australian suppliers (CNC)

« on: July 15, 2012, 03:21:03 AM »

Hi Vertigo,

I got quite a range of CNC components, including being the Australian Geckodrive Distributor . As to whether I have everything you need depends on what you want.

My store can be viewed at; www.homanndesigns.com/store/

I also have a lot of useful information here;
http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=page_2
http://www.homanndesigns.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=5&Itemid=55


I'm located in Melbourne. If you have any questions, I can be contacted by email or phone.
Cheers,

Peter

163

VB and the development of wizards / Re: Help with tool change macro's

« on: June 24, 2012, 07:13:00 PM »

Hi,

To use a toolchange macro, you should have the general config for toolchange set to auto.

Cheers,

Peter

164

General Mach Discussion / Re: Options for DC Motor RPM Control

« on: June 17, 2012, 11:51:32 PM »

Hi,

You may be going about this the wrong way.

You need to determine what type of spindle you need.  Price is not what you use to choose the type of spindle. Price is used to choose within the range of a particular type.

A High Speed 2400W Chinese spindle is a completely different beast from a 200W DC spindle.  The Wolfgang TB 650 spindle is basically a PCB  or engraving style milling spindle.

What type of milling are you planning to do, wood, engraving, etc? These two spindle would normally suit different sizes of machines.

The wolfgang 12V spindle has no speed controller. It connects directly to 12V.

Mach produces a PWM control signal that is proportional to the requested speed as a ratio of the maximum speed. This control signal need to be processed and interfaced into s speed controller.

For a VFD, you could use a DC-03V3 Digispeed to accomplish this.
http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=21

I'm not aware of a 12V motor controller that accepts a PWM control voltage.

Cheers,

Peter.

165

General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help can i flip the code design

« on: June 10, 2012, 06:12:09 PM »

Hi,

A quick solution may be to swap the plug for the X and y axis motors on the controller, assuming that the leadscrews are the same.

Alternatively, go into Maxh3 and swap the pin assignments for the two axis.  Make the long axis X and the short axis Y

Cheers,

Peter

166

General Mach Discussion / Re: Some things wrong with my Nema 23

« on: May 29, 2012, 01:27:01 AM »

Hi,

It sounds like the motor is stalling.

Check that the acceleration and velocity settings for the axis are not too high.

The other thing is that the driver may be failing with a heat related problem

Cheers,

Peter

167

Promote and discuss your product / ***GeckoDrive and Stepper Motor Sale***

« on: May 14, 2012, 03:35:20 AM »

Hi All,

Homann Designs is having a GeckoDrive and Steppe motor sale. Items are discounted up to 20%.

I haven't decided how long the sale will last, so if you are thinking of making a purchase, now is the time.

http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=24

http://www.homanndesigns.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=25

Enjoy,

Peter

168

Modbus / Re: modbus settings...???

« on: April 24, 2012, 04:36:48 AM »

It's not real clear. Glad to see you have it working.

If you haven't already, have a look at the ArtSoft VideoTutorials;
http://www.machsupport.com/videos.php

and the document I wrote: Using Modbus with Mach3

http://www.homanndesigns.com/pdfs/Using_Modbus_with_Mach3.pdf

Cheers,

Peter

169

Modbus / Re: modbus settings...???

« on: April 23, 2012, 07:31:21 PM »

Hi,

From what I can see, in the brain, you are using the address value of 1 and cfg# of 0.

The address in the brain dialog is actually the offset index from the start of the CFG#0

So try address 0 and see how you go.

Also get it communicating with Mach3 first by using the Test page, accessed from the Modbus config plugin

Cheers,

Peter.

170

General Mach Discussion / Re: Reinstalled Mach3 and now spindle shows 3000 max when its spinning 5000

« on: April 16, 2012, 02:33:59 AM »

You should not be able to set a speed faster than the max speed for the pulley. If you can, I'd try retyping the max value into the max pulley field.