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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 12:17:16 PM »

Sage,

Other than the K2 problem, port 1 appears fine.

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 12:14:41 PM »

Art,

If the resource address were set to the wrong value, wouldn't that make all the pins wrong/inoperative?

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 11:52:16 AM »

Would it help if I called it port 3 and didn't use port 2?  Also, I believe I can configure the second port for different resource address.

Then the problem becomes how to describe what I've done without confusing everyone, including myself.  Port 2, 3, second port, LOL

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 11:38:30 AM »

Art,

BTW, I also have something connected to my K2 relay.  I haven't configured it in either Darwin or M4 yet but it is powered on even with Darwin and M4 in estop.

I didn't see the history button in the last Darwin but it's only my first coffee.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 11:30:39 AM »

Art,

You're gonna love this!

With the cable unplugged, all port 2 pins show red except 11 which is green,  Grounding pin 5 to 25 causes pin 9 to go green and 11 to go red.  Grounding pin 9 to 25 causes pins 5 and 15 to go green!

If I ground pin 5, causing pin 9 to go green then quickly ground 9, it doesn't go red right away but does after the same delay that occurs if I just remove the jumper.  In other words, the floating inputs appear to take some time to bleed off and grounding pin 9 does not show as an immediate grounding.  However, removing the jumper from pin 9 does cause an immediate change in pins 5 and 15 back to red.  I believe this shows that pin 9 in Darwin is not really pin 9.

Anyone have an exorcism routine other than Unix?

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 19, 2014, 10:33:52 AM »

Hi Art,

You bring up a valid point and I will check it out.  However, I am faced with the problem that my probe does not appear to trigger any pins in Darwin but does in M3.

Loading latest version of Darwin.

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 18, 2014, 11:08:48 PM »

Art,

An apology.  I got the replicated signal pins mixed up.  Pin 5 is being replicated on pin 15, pin 7 is being replicated on pin 12, and pin 6 is being replicated on pin 13.  Pin 9 is being replicated in inverted fashion on pin 11.  These are all port 2 input pins.

Sorry.  I know it helps to get the input data right.

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 18, 2014, 08:12:31 PM »

Art,

Okay.  the latest version works as far as retaining the input selection on port 2.  Thank you.

However, I'm still getting the problem of replicating of some inputs on other pins.  This is not a matter of selecting a negate box.  The signals shown on pins 11, 12, and 15 are replicas of the actual inputs on pins 6, 7, and 8 respectively.  The signal showing up on pin 11 is a replication of the actual input on pin 9 but is inverted.  The actual input on pin 11 appears to have no effect.  Selecting a negate box would not help here.  I did try, but with no effect.

As to losing it, if you ever find it, please look around for mine.   

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 18, 2014, 07:32:14 PM »

Art,

Eagerly installed 1.160.  It shows as 1.160 in the plug in list.  When open, the upper right hand corner numbers are: 1.11 and 1.08.

Of course, the duplicated pin problem still remains as before.  However, now there's a new twist.  When I go to port 2 (set back to dcc8), it shows as input (pins 2-9) but pins 2-7, the encoder inputs, do not change with moving the axes.  To get them to work again, I have to deselect the input box then reselect it.  Then the encoders work as before.

Maybe not quite a step back, just a little sideways?  

Peter

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 18, 2014, 02:57:10 PM »

Art,

Nope, unfortunate typo.  Port 1 was set to 378, port 2 to dcc8.  Last night I tried switching them to each other and redoing all of the signal definitions to match.  That's when I reported no difference except for the encoder #0 DRO operation.  This morning I put things back to the way they were.  Encoder #0 DRO working okay (go figure).  Everything else the same as it was.

Sorry for the confusion.  A really bad time for that typo.

The cleared check box for (now) port 2 inputs happened again.

Peter