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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Switching to Mach4 hobby from chilipeppr

« on: January 17, 2017, 07:10:39 PM »

 "legacy Parallel port" just means it's old teck The G540 should do you well

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: High GPU usage workaround

« on: January 15, 2017, 02:48:00 PM »

Can you post the file

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: High GPU usage workaround

« on: January 14, 2017, 11:11:12 PM »

Last yer some test where done between Nvidia and AMD cards the Nvidia cards where run at near max and the AMD cards where only useing 25%.

The computer with the nvidia cards was way more powerful than the computer with the AMD card, AMD won that hands down

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PoKeys / Re: Pokeys 57E w/ M16 BOB Limit Switch Wiring Question

« on: January 10, 2017, 01:26:29 AM »

GND

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua

« on: January 08, 2017, 12:06:54 AM »

nup, being trolled is when you get nasty massages from A hole

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua

« on: January 07, 2017, 10:12:52 PM »

Blenheim shaky town, I had to hide all my info I was getting trolled by a member They tried to hide who it was but forgot to remove there IP address, I am just weighting for them to do it again then they will get arrested.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Switching to Mach4 hobby from chilipeppr

« on: January 07, 2017, 10:01:39 PM »

ITs computer to motion devices  ether by USB, Ethernet or parallel port connection to the computer.

the motion devices can be the bob (breakout board) and motion device (look up Gecko G540 it's a all in one) and or a stepper driver or just a motion devices that connects to a bob.

It's all down to your budget and how much you want the motion devices to do.

A G540 is a good option to start with it's got good backup and support, It's all you will needed.

A ESS and a bob and stepper drivers is fine like what daz or joe has

I have the same as joe on one machine it has G214v gecko drivers. it works fine

on another I have A G540 what I had working with the parallel port on mach3 and 4 it was fine, then I got a Pokeys 57cnc and connected the G540 to it, it's a good machine so I spend the money to keep it like that.

Have a read of the info here http://www.geckodrive.com/support/step-motor-basics.html, there is some good info there and here as well http://warp9td.com/index.php/gettingstarted

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Switching to Mach4 hobby from chilipeppr

« on: January 07, 2017, 05:34:48 PM »

crchisholm you can use the ESS with your G540. the G540 is your bob and stepper driver The ESS just needs a Ethernet connection directly to your machine control computer.

There are other options you can use depending on your budget Pokeys is another option they have 2 products you can use with the G540, UCCNC is another option they have 5 options there are about 6 different company that make a external controller that you can use with the G540.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua

« on: January 07, 2017, 04:27:51 PM »

I am implying it may not work as it is too, Reading through what Art has written about what he has done in Gear monkey script, And the math behind it, Lua and M4 is the same, there are math words I have never heared of.
Setting up all the calls and the way they interact with said application and what does what iT's mind boggling what is sitting in the backed, I have not read up on Lua just the cross references stuff  C type code It shows the limit of the code is the person writing it, it can do a lot more than just running a machine.
Where is NZ are you

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lua

« on: January 07, 2017, 03:31:39 AM »

What i posted is old and may be slightly wrong and it's just one way to do it, it's from the manual, useing a table or library different ways to do the same thing.

I haven't use lua in years I am learning gear monkey script what is simpler to lua but can call to it.