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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 28, 2011, 09:26:17 AM »

Not too sure on that one cause I changed ports even from the onboard lpt to the pci one I had installed and it gave me the exact same results.  It's not the cables cause I've changed them and I highly doubt that 3 different cables would have the exact same problem.  It's now left me with 2 possablities, it's either the bob or mach3.  When I first move an axis when mach3 is started it gives me really strange results untill it's been on for a couple of minutes, then it just gives me the same end result where my y won't move untill my x moves first.  My results when mach3 is in it's first minute have been posted here and as you can see it's never the same untill it has been on for a couple of minutes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 28, 2011, 08:34:31 AM »

I hope this is what you wanted.  Since this was a retrofit the wiring was very idiot proof as everything was already hooked up working and labeled.  If anything else is needed please ask and it will be done

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 27, 2011, 04:47:57 PM »

Ok so here what is happening. 

y+ will not move after x+ has moved any distance untill x- has moved any distance, then y+ will move any distance

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 27, 2011, 02:52:27 PM »

All that did was waste a huge part of my day.  Any more suggestions?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 27, 2011, 10:06:26 AM »

I just reinstalled mach3 again set everything up again.  Now I'm back to not having my y+ and a+ move untill my x- moves first

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 27, 2011, 08:18:36 AM »

so this morning I turn on the computer and I get these results.

z+ = nothing moves
z- = a+ y+ x+
y+ = x+
y- = a- y-
x+ = x+
x- = x-

it's like there's a ghost in the machine set on pissing me off

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 26, 2011, 04:09:02 PM »

Thank you all for your help, it's much appreciated.

I reinstalled mach3 and it's almost there but still the motors aren't quite doing what they should.

my y+ and a+ will not work unless an other direction is introduced first.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 26, 2011, 02:56:03 PM »

a is my slave to y

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 26, 2011, 02:55:05 PM »

I just completely rewired all the drivers to make sure I hadn't missed anything or mixed something up.  There was nothing wrong and still nothing wrong with the wiring but this is what happens.

I move z+ and my result is x- y- a-
I move z- and my result is z-
I move y+ and my result is x-
I move y- and my result is y- a-
I move x+ and my result is nothing moves
I move x- and my result is z- y- a-

I go into config then outputs and change nothing but click ok and everything changes again for my results.

All the hotkeys are correctly set for each axis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: halfmoon instead of circle

« on: April 26, 2011, 09:25:17 AM »

will check it all over.  There is nothing in the way I checked for that first.