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

« on: April 16, 2012, 02:16:09 AM »

Have a look in the configuration for spindle pulleys. see what the maximum pulley speed is for the pulley you have selected.

It may be that pulley 1 is set to 3000rpm and previously you have been using another pulley number with the max speed set to 5000rpm.

You can either change the max pulley speed to 5000rpm for pulley 1 or of you already have the 5000 in another pulley, just select that pulley number as the current pulley from the mach3 setting page.

Cheers,

Peter.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 12, 2012, 03:09:15 AM »

Looking at the image in post 42,  You have the inputs pullup jumper set to 0V. You need to set it to the 5V end.

Also the Enable source jumper is set to enable always (pos ON), swap it to the Enable end.(it won't change anything as you have the 3 enable override jumpers in.

Since you limit inputs are active low, you need to go into the Mach3 configuration and ensure that the inputs that are using input pins 10,11,12 and 13 have the active low checkbox ticked.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 12, 2012, 02:56:35 AM »

Hi Mark,

That's what I needed. It shows that the inputs have pullups to 5V. So the MB-02V6 pullup jumper for the inputs need to be set to 5V as well.

Can you also post the manual for the drives that you are using.

Cheers,

Peter

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 11, 2012, 08:00:03 PM »

Ok, the MB-02 should certainly allow that.

Do you have the manual for the Rutex Bob and the drives that you are using so I can  have a look at them.

Cheers,

Peter.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 11, 2012, 06:21:55 PM »

Hi Mark,

It is very difficult to read the signal labels on the diagram. But, from what I can see you have the step and dir signals coming out from the MB-02 tied to the gnd pins on the R990 DB-25 connector, and the step and dir pins on the R990 db25 connector not connected to the MB-02.

Cheers,

Peter

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 05, 2012, 05:50:55 AM »

Hi,

Unfortunately, I can't tell much from the photo, other than you've done a nice wiring job.

Can you draw a schematic similar to this.
http://www.homanndesigns.com/pdfs/EN009_V2_3.pdf

Just handdraw it and label the signals.

Cheers,

Peter

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 05, 2012, 02:14:00 AM »

When trying a reply, there is the addition options at the left on the bottom.

There you can attach the image as a file.

Cheers,

Peter.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: April 04, 2012, 05:46:17 PM »

Hi,

I've been waiting for you to provide a schematic or clear description of what you are trying to do. I do not understand what you mean by output or inputs

Can you provide a schematic (hand drawn is ok) similar to the schematics in my engineering notes of what you are trying to do?

Cheers,

Peter

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: March 30, 2012, 06:27:08 PM »

I'm sorry, I can't understand what you are trying to do.

When you say you want to pins 1-13 as inputs to the rutex board, what does that mean? inputs from the outside world? Or from the parallel port. I thought you were wanting to use pins 10-13 as outputs.

In Mach3 terminology, I now have no idea whether you want to use the lines 1-13 as inputs to mach3 or outputs.

How about drawing a schematic of what you want to do. You need to provide a bit more detail so be are working from the same reference.

Cheers,

Peter.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digispeed not working

« on: March 30, 2012, 07:42:51 AM »

Pins 10,11,12,13 are inputs on the parallel port. They can't be used as outputs. So why are you trying to use them as inputs?

BTW, which part of the manual is confusing?

Cheers,

Peter.