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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can Mach3 be run with Mach2 driver??

« on: March 25, 2007, 09:15:17 PM »

Hi Chip,
Is it no problem to have two drivers in the device manager for Mach2 and Mach3?
Thanks
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 25, 2007, 12:02:11 AM »

Hi Dan,
I have quite a few XP machines that did not like the new driver.  I am not sure why but it looks that way to me still trying to find out.  My XPs work fine with the older driver.

Good luck 
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Can Mach3 be run with Mach2 driver??

« on: March 24, 2007, 11:54:30 PM »

Can Mach3 be run with Mach2 driver?? 

Thanks
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors chattering at reset problem?

« on: March 24, 2007, 09:36:11 PM »

Here is the latest.  It appears to my 4 out of the five systems I have at my disposal don’t like the driver that was loaded with Mach3.  My reason for thinking this is Mach2 works just fine of course with the Mach2 driver.  As a matter of fact Mach2 was doing the same weird chatter noise thing so long as the Mach3 driver was still in the Device Mangers Mach X pulsing Engines drop-down.  After removing the Mach3 driver there Mach2 works fine!!  I am wondering if I can run Mach3 with a mach2 driver??

Thanks
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors chattering at reset problem?

« on: March 24, 2007, 03:38:30 PM »

Something else I noticed was the look of the Port 1 current state led are lit on the problem computer but not on the one that works.  Here is the attachment of Diagnostics page you will see what I am seeing.

Thanks
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors chattering at reset problem?

« on: March 24, 2007, 01:04:24 PM »

Well got a chance to try quite a few thing with no luck!!  I did picked up a parallel card installed it and configured Mach3 to use it and am getting the same weird stepper chatter.  I all so tried a lot of suggestion on another post [url]http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=2496.0 by Fredhead dealing with installing a second parallel port.  I have two other XP machines I will try playing with.  Still open to suggestion!!

Thanks
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors chattering at reset problem?

« on: March 23, 2007, 07:52:53 PM »

Thanks Hood good suggestion I will let you know – running to Microcenter to pick up parallel card!!
Werner

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors chattering at reset problem?

« on: March 23, 2007, 06:02:39 PM »

Yeah I did run the drive test it looks really clean!!

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General Mach Discussion / Stepper motors chattering at reset problem?

« on: March 23, 2007, 04:54:32 PM »

Any help with this one is greatly appreciated!!
My name is Werner,  I have set up a new machine and had Mach3 working great with one computer only to have it freak out at startup with another.  Specifically the problem is when I click reset.  The motors start to chatter getting some crazy signals .  I have tried a lot of thing to this point:  switch computer a few times without moving wires around, tried it in Sherline mode, tried changing the kernel speed,  different parallel cables, motor tuning not that I thought this would do anything!  Keep in mind I have the same version of Mach3 on both computers and appear to have everything configured the same.  At this point I am not sure what is going on.  I am using a PMDX-131 with 201s and Win XP.

Thank in advance!
Werner   

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Coil winding machine ( Wizard needed)

« on: March 14, 2007, 10:46:52 AM »

Hi Benny,
Just wanted to know if you had a version of this screen I could play.  I have a spooling machine I use now with nc code.