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Yeah, Scott this is great. Thanks for all your hard work on this!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor relay with Gecko G540
« on: April 01, 2009, 09:54:01 AM »
The Gecko G540 has sinking type outputs, that is they supply the common (ground) when switched. Look at the GECKO G540 documentation: http://geckodrive.com/upload/G540%20REV3%20MANUAL.pdf , page 3 shows how to hook up relays.

Hope that helps,

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Galil / Re: Galil Status
« on: March 30, 2009, 09:05:16 AM »
Scott, you need to have a Galil card installed. The plug-in asks the Galil driver for the address of the first installed card. My guess is the it is not handling the case when it gets a NULL pointer returned and so it crashes. As 90% of the plug-in involves trying to talk to the card it would be a mess trying to see if a card actually existed in all those cases. Probably a check could be put in after the request for the card address and a flag could be set to indicate a card was not found. Then the update loop could be skipped if a card was not present. It wouldn't crash that way but you also couldn't do anything with it.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: How would you physically wire this?
« on: March 27, 2009, 04:10:30 PM »
I'm assuming that the way they Keling has it listed on their website means that they are including a USB cable and LPH26->DB25 with the SmoothStepper, but it is not clear they way they listed things...

If your in doubt about what you will get from them I just started handling the SS on my website: http://soigeneris.com/shop/Warp9_97624.aspx. To be honest I forgot to include some of the LPH26->DB25 with my first order but will have several coming in on my next shipment.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: How would you physically wire this?
« on: March 27, 2009, 10:18:56 AM »
Guys, You can buy a LPH26 to DB25 cable right on the Warp 9 site. That is why they have it available there. It makes it plug and play...

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Background:
One of the most difficult tasks for me getting started with PCB milling was knowing what size drills I should get. There is always a decent price break when you order 10 or more of one size but I did not want to get stuck with 10 bits I would never use. I have been buying my PCB routing bits from PreciseBits.com for a couple of years now as they seemed to be the best value for the money (not the cheapest). When I started my website I signed up right away to be a distributor of the PreciseBits line.
 
They already had sets of drill bits made up for common PCB routing tasks, but they were kind of hidden on the parent companies website. Working with them I came up with a few additional 'Starter Kits' that include two 60 deg. 'V' bits for trace isolation. Information about these kits follow.
 
I have the PCB drill kits and started kits in stock now! I'll be working on the drill rack files for PCBGcode this weekend. Here is a basic rundown on each kit:

Heart Range A: Through hole boards, inch sizes
Heart Range B: SMT boards, inch sizes
Metric Heart Range: Through hole board, metric sizes
 
The Starter Kits A, B, Metric are the same as above with two of the larger drills replaced with 60 degree V-bits. You can find more information here: http://soigeneris.com/shop/Precise_Bits_86618.aspx
 
For a very limited time, I'm including the ZrN (much better then TiN) coated V bits in the Starter Kits. The ZrN coating produces a much smoother cut in the copper and will last 2-3 times as long.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Vista bussiness 32 w/ downgrade to XP Pro
« on: March 04, 2009, 02:26:19 PM »
Sorry, I was not being personal. I quoted a section of the letter the MSCE guy sent you, but failed to make my intention clear. Sorry.  :-[

Glad you and Brett got things sorted. Be sure and post some pics of your guitars!

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Vista bussiness 32 w/ downgrade to XP Pro
« on: March 04, 2009, 09:56:15 AM »
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Vista sucks. It was released all the way back in January 2007 and still
is not ready for prime time.

What a bunch of mindless crap-ola!

Folks had big issues with Vista as many HW manufacturers refused to write Vista compatible drivers. Many software titles also chose to lock folks out of upgrading to Vista because they wanted to FORCE people to buy a new version of their SW. (MS actually did tons of compatibility testing, found out that their was no technical issue with running it on Vista and tried to work with SW vendors on the issue.) Yes MS is working on Windows 7 now, just as they were working on Vista when Xp was released, just as GM, Ford, etc work on new designs while building/shipping current designs.

I really don't care what OS someone chooses, I just can't stand mindless mis-inforamtion about anything.

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Promote and discuss your product / Win free Taig stuff!
« on: March 03, 2009, 10:06:45 AM »
Hi folks! I'm sponsoring a free drawing from some Taig accessories.

Soigeneris is sponsoring a free drawing on March 20, 2009 over at the Taig Owners Club. The lucky winner will have their choice of a Taig 1220 Milling Attachment for the lathe, or a set of 1040ER collets for the mill. For a link to the contest site go to my home page: http://soigeneris.com/default.aspx, and look at the very first announcement under, 'Browsers Welcome..."

Good luck!


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Galil / Re: Galil Status
« on: February 23, 2009, 01:04:01 PM »
The issue comes about because your mapping a real I/O port (LPT1) to the same registers that the Galil is writing to. Ideally Mach would just disable setting the port to anything but zero when using an external motion card.