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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 08:51:27 PM »
I'm sure I will, The part is nothing valuable and I still have all the zeroing surfaces so I can re set it up once I get things going again, That was only a hope if the parallel port had worked. This is the third PC in 10 years and all 3 have been a pain to get working. This is just not on my list of projects, well it wasn't... Now maybe I'll actually set up some limit switches, it didn't have any when I bought it and still doesn't. My control box is full and I don't think I can fit it in there so I may see if I can mount it in the PC for now to get things up and running until I can build a new control box for it. I know it's not the best idea but I've read of it being done that way.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 06:23:40 PM »
I just ordered the ESS from warp9, it'll be here Monday. I didn't want to rebuild the system now, I have a part half done in the vice still and just wanted to make it run again but that doesn't look like it's going to happen with this PC. I've been looking at the Masso controller thinking that is a nice idea no pc involved but the reviews just aren't good enough to try yet, maybe in a few years. This PC didn't cost anything it came from mine and my brothers extras pile, He keeps old PC based test gear and manufacturing gear running for a living so he built the pc, we could probably get it to run right but if I half to spend a bunch of time on this I'd rather make it better.

Thanks for all the help so far, I'm sure I'll have more ?'s when the ESS shows up.

Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 03:50:18 PM »
If I add a smooth stepper do I loose the machine calibration and start from scratch?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 03:47:59 PM »

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 12:15:24 PM »
I right clicked on the driver test icon and did run as administrator and it ran, Pulses to fast, pulses to slow and system stable all in the same test. Now I'm trying to find documentation on the driver test so I know what I'm looking at.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 11:55:31 AM »
Here are the XML's and the difference list

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 11:36:22 AM »
Ok... now what...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 11:29:45 AM »
Yes, parallel port directly to G540.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 17, 2018, 11:08:25 AM »
Driver test wont run, click on the icon and nothing happens.

I have reloaded mach and the driver after uninstalling them and still no joy. I downloaded the install file again and reloaded still nothing. any ideas on getting the driver test to run?

BTW I hate computers!  lol

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General Mach Discussion / switched PC now the motors stutter
« on: August 16, 2018, 04:29:35 PM »
The PC that has been driving my CNC mill for the last 4-5 years just died so I put together another one and put a fresh copy of windows 7 32bit installed Mach3, then copied over the xml and license file. The problem is when I jog the motors all 3 axis are stuttering, not running smooth. What should I be looking for?

I compared the .xml's from the old machine to the new machine after it was running and came up with a few differences, I'll attach a photo of the list and the .xml's.

Thanks for any help.
Brian

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