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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 02, 2014, 09:56:14 PM »

some thing that is new with the new release of Darwin and M4 you need to have the  Kernal Frequency set low or it goes mad.
before build 1900, higher Kernal Frequency worked better its not a problem its something to be aware off.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Embedding the "Mach MAD" for 4, into a screen set! Still got stuff to do!

« on: August 01, 2014, 09:43:13 PM »

Very nice

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Screen Set Ideas

« on: July 30, 2014, 07:03:03 PM »

very nice hope you going to let people have a copy or sale on Mach web site

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 24, 2014, 06:31:15 PM »

Max speed is set to 26000 rpm when the speed is called it goes to that speed for a second then straight to 5000 rpm.
I will do the reinstall after I put on latest m4 release to see if that fixes it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 24, 2014, 05:55:27 PM »

art I found what the problem was it was the macros, I remove the M3 macro from the macro folder and the screen.
I can now type in a M3S5000 command in the mdi it will turn on at 5000 rpm but cant get it to go faster it try`s to go faster then goes back to 5000 rpm.
there is a problem in M4 that is making this to happen.
I am going to do a complete reinstall of m4 and Darwin to see if it clears up the problem.
other than that there are no other problems

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 23, 2014, 10:07:30 PM »

thanks art/Ya-Nvr_No, will give that a crank see what happens.
Also I have not changed wiring yet.
I have SpindleFreqLo set to 0 and SpindleFreqHi set to 5000.
I will set it at 50 in darwin

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 23, 2014, 08:43:48 PM »

its not working its just turning spindle on or of no matter what I put in.
I was playing with the M3 macro brook it some how so only can toggle on/off.
could I ask if I can see the M3 macro you are using please.
this is what i am useing.

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function m3()
    local inst = mc.mcGetInstance();
    local sigh = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_SPINDLEON);
    local sigState = mc.mcSignalGetState(sigh);

    if (sigState == 0) then
        mc.mcSpindleSetDirection(inst, 1);
        --dir =,  -1=ccw, 1=cw, 0=off   
    end

    local dummy = 1;
end
 
if (mc.mcInEditor() == 1) then
   m3();
end

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 23, 2014, 08:09:05 PM »

art I did what you suggested to do it did not work, in the mean time a wire broke and when I was fixing it I checked the connections on the super pid it was not connected to pwm it was contended to the pot line, set it up to run that way and it worked.
Also Darwin does fix the M4 problem with metric what cool.
I just need to get my M codes correct as I cant change speeds, just on and off might changes to the pwm line to see if that makes a differences.
so everything with Darwin works very well on my machine just a couple of M4 problems.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 22, 2014, 05:15:46 PM »

Art I have been playing with Darwin a bit more, every new release you do seams to make it more stable on my win xp computer. decided to push my luck and set it at 45000 hz it ran fine I moved it back to 35000 hz and it runs very nicely.
I am haveing a couple of  problem one is with the graphics I think it is a m4 problem it comes up with vertex buffer objects not available this has also shown up on my win 7 laptop from release 1900 before that it was ok.

And I cant get the spindle to run properly I can start and stop it but it runs at full noise I have try all sorts of different configs cant seam to get it to work right its connected to a super pid what is connected to a g540 what has pin 17 on/off and pin 14 pwm.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: July 11, 2014, 10:04:09 PM »

hi art got Darwin work very well on xp with new release of Darwin and M4 found there was a problem with the new release of Darwin the DarwinDLL is wrong put the DarwinDLL from the first release and all is working now.
also the problem with no tool path display is still there it is the only problem I have found so far other than that its still better than M3