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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach 3 / Cut 3D crashing on Win 7 dedicated computer

« on: January 15, 2012, 11:08:08 AM »

Glad you got it sorted. Motors and such will often pull a lot more current when they start up and can also put a lot of electrical noise back out on the AC line. Both of which can make other things plugged into the same circuit very unhappy.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smoothstepper don`t accept M10P1 / M11P1 commands ?

« on: January 14, 2012, 10:36:00 AM »

Please go over to the Warp9 forum. Greg has posted quite a bit about this subject and how to set things up properly with the SmoothStepper.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach 3 / Cut 3D crashing on Win 7 dedicated computer

« on: January 13, 2012, 11:00:00 AM »

But if I have the CNC power supply fired up, then the computer crashes unpredictably.

As the saying goes, "Well there's your problem!"

The first thing I would do is turn off the cnc power supply and unplug the stepper motors. Now turn the power supply back on. Does it still lock up after a while? If not then you likely have a wiring error/short with one of your stepper motors or a stepper cable is inducing noise into the system somewhere. If it still locks up, then turn off the power, remove the drives and power back up. Doe you still have a problem with it locking up?

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach 3 / Cut 3D crashing on Win 7 dedicated computer

« on: January 11, 2012, 09:41:09 AM »

Could also be PC related. There is no way to tell at this point. The best test woudl be to set everything up on another PC and see if that works.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: smooth stepper and C32 BOB

« on: December 31, 2011, 12:30:09 AM »

You are the only one that knows how you wired your machine up. Which Port&Pin did you wire the X-axis step signal to on the BOB? Now plug that information into your Ports&Pins in Mach. What Port&Pin on your BOB did you wires the X-axis direction signal to? Now plug that into Mach. That is the basic idea.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Getting up and running in Vista

« on: December 29, 2011, 01:31:54 PM »

The only other solution is to use an external motion controller: http://www.soigeneris.com/Motion_Control_and_I_O_Boards-list.aspx (my website.) Ther are also boards made by other companies: DSPMC, KFlop, etc.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Windows 7 config problems

« on: December 21, 2011, 08:58:28 AM »

All the external motion control stuff I have found costs more than a old tower.

But is will work better than any old tower too, and it will work the same on what ever PC you put it on...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installing Mach3 in Windows7

« on: December 19, 2011, 08:50:20 PM »

Just run the installer and let it install in the default location.

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Promote and discuss your product / Special Bit Sale!

« on: December 09, 2011, 07:40:12 PM »

PreciseBits is changing all of their 3D tapered carving tools over to the longer 2.5" shank. (The depth of cut remains the same.)

We were able to make a special purchase of the remaining 1/16" uncoated tools and are passing the savings along to our customers.

Sets of two and five 1/16" tools are available at a great savings but the quantity is limited. If you have been wanting to try these tools or want to stock up this is your chance. Buy now before they are gone!

http://www.soigeneris.com/PreciseBits_Tapered_Carving_Tools-details.aspx

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General Mach Discussion / Re: External E stop

« on: December 08, 2011, 05:16:30 PM »

my pc is used, and has other ppls garbage on it, should i labotomize it completely clean and re install mach?

YES! Reinstall Windows and start from scratch. I had a customer try installing Mach on a second hand PC without starting from scratch and he had all sorts of strange issues. Just heard back from him yesterday that things are running fine now that he started from scratch with a fresh install of Windows.