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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3

« on: October 21, 2010, 06:01:55 PM »

Sorry - slight correction. I am running windows XPpro which should be fine as it is above win2k...

Any suggestions?

thanks,
St.john

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3

« on: October 21, 2010, 05:36:42 PM »

Umm... back to the drawing board!

Changing that and testing again now..

thanks
St.john

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General Mach Discussion / Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3

« on: October 21, 2010, 03:33:56 PM »

Hi Guys,
I have a question about getting the taig cnc micromill 2000 which is in the quantum cnc enclosure up and running. I am using a thinkpad T40 laptop with windows 98, mach3 and connecting the micromill2000 driver box to the laptop parralel port. I downloaded the mach3taig2000.xml config file and fired it all up accordingly. Axis x,y and z all work via jog at 50% speed reduction. Jogging at 100% caused the z-axis stepper to slip. My problem now is that I can't get the spindle to run (ac induction motor, belt driven). I would think it would be relay controlled with either an on or off condition (M3 does nothing). The emergency stop button on the quantumcnc cabinet also does nothing. Any suggestions how I can get the spindle going and how I can get the e-stop button working?

The spindle motor does work as I can get it to spin up in manual mode.

I am completely new to the taig and mach3 so any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. I have read the mach3 documentation but think most likely I would benefit from some expert advice here...

many thanks,
St.john

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Taig Mill Tail Stock

« on: September 06, 2010, 07:29:25 PM »

Hi Ken,
sorry, I understand now. It was not clear for me how you were driving the 4th axis. You are using a stepper motor for this contained in the housing I presume which does not weigh a great deal so that is clearly not an issue. At first from the picture it looked like you had a large DC motor driving it - my mistake.

many thanks,
St.john

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Taig Mill Tail Stock

« on: September 02, 2010, 05:01:32 PM »

Hi Ken,
did you have any problems driving the extra weight from the tail stock motor? What axis motors are you using?

many thanks,
St.john

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Frankenstein Lives

« on: September 02, 2010, 04:16:29 PM »

hmm... interesting, thanks...

Stjohn

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Taig Mill Tail Stock

« on: September 02, 2010, 01:08:31 PM »

Hi Ken,
thanks for the reply, I look forward to seeing it. I am pretty new to playing with mach3, how did you setup the new tail stock in the software?

cheers,
Stjohn

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Taig Mill Tail Stock

« on: September 02, 2010, 10:30:16 AM »

Hi Ken,
awesome, can't wait to see the motor adaptor plate in situ!

many thanks,
Stjohn

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Frankenstein Lives

« on: September 02, 2010, 09:27:45 AM »

Hi Bob,
that is a great idea, are you still using it and are you still happy?

many thanks,
Stjohn