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General Mach Discussion / Re: windows 7

« on: June 13, 2012, 04:32:58 PM »

is the driver board a hobby cnc pro board?

John

ps. if so the pinouts should be printed on the surface of the board.

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General Mach Discussion / picking out a pci parallel port card

« on: June 13, 2012, 04:28:45 PM »

Hi, I'm needing to buy a pci parallel port card for my computer and dont want to get something that will drive me nutts and in the end not work.

I'm looking at this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200644499999?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_1421wt_1182
New SYBA DB-25 2-port Parallel Printer PCI Controller Card with NetMos98065 chipset [OEM] SY-PCI10002
Has anyone bought one of these yet and if so, how did it go?

John

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FAQs / Re: not sure what happened

« on: June 12, 2012, 04:49:28 PM »

I'm just guessing but it could be the xml file was damaged or some such, you might want to check/confirm all your settings.

John

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FAQs / Re: not sure what happened

« on: June 12, 2012, 02:22:21 PM »

Sounds to me like your steps per unit are off, Probably best place to start off.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: what pci card and driver with old server Please?

« on: June 04, 2012, 10:26:53 PM »

http://www.netmos.com/

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 running Techno CNC LC series 4896

« on: May 18, 2012, 11:14:18 PM »

Pictures would be a good start, any information on the current controls, whether it has steppers or servos... I'm sure there is more but that would be a start.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: feed speed not matching

« on: April 19, 2012, 02:46:12 PM »

So what is the difference in your kernel and reported frequency?
Hood

I finally made it out to the shop and checked, while set to 25000hz it reports 23224 and at 35000hz it reports 35557, I put it back to 25k since my system is so slow(5/16 18tpi screws) max jog speed is about 60ipm on my machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: feed speed not matching

« on: April 18, 2012, 10:47:48 PM »

Thank you

Look at the set kernal frq in diagnostics the % of difference of the set frq and actual frq will be the amount of difference of the commanded feedrate.

I questioned this when ART changed it to help TURN worked out the threading problems. Mach3 now LOCKS in a freq to base everything on. and IF it is lower than set freq it effects everything time based.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: feed speed not matching

« on: April 18, 2012, 01:33:47 PM »

thank you, so I guess I need to figure out what to set it to in order to attain the speed I actually want, would this difference be less if I ran a higher frequency?

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General Mach Discussion / feed speed not matching

« on: April 18, 2012, 11:26:39 AM »

hi, I'm new to mach3 so maybe this has been covered tho I was unable to come up with keywords to find answers.

when I set feedrate to 30ipm it only gets up to 27.87 max, even on straightaways, is this a known issue? could it have something to do with the big-tex screen I'm using?

John