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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need info on Denford Starturn 4 CNC lathe

« on: April 22, 2008, 02:02:11 PM »

Fred
My lathe's had the same type connector i had a VFD for the spindle motor control actually had the whole machine running on the existing electronics before deciding to gut it and upgrade it all to modern electronics i kept the 3 phase converter the machine originally had installed a VFD and all new drives with a break out board i first tried running the machine on flashcut proved not to be very satisfactory the flashcut is more for a mill then a lathe i need to sell that system.

Dennis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need info on Denford Starturn 4 CNC lathe

« on: April 22, 2008, 10:18:47 AM »

Hi Fred
reading your post i have an Orac lathe made by Denford actually i have 2 of them one running on Mach3 my lathe had a 240 V 3 phase motor are you sure about the single phase there is a distributor here in the US for Denford and there tech guy was very helpfull in giving me some info on the machinery lathes are about he same vintage.

Dennis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to link three G320 for fault protection

« on: April 19, 2008, 02:06:18 PM »

I just finished installing the E-stop switch so simply put the same termanial 5 either by putting +5v to it reset's it and grounding it fault's it out works perfect now i feel comfortable in running the machine on it's first test g-codes thanks guy's.

Dennis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to link three G320 for fault protection

« on: April 19, 2008, 01:37:15 PM »

Armac
 Yes i am doing just that by taking all 3 termanial 5's and tieing them together then using a momentary switch and giving the geckos a +5v to rest them so if understand this correctly i can take the same number 5 termanial and using an E-stop switch set it to ground stopping the drives i can see this in the schematic now thanks.

Dennis

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to link three G320 for fault protection

« on: April 19, 2008, 12:29:54 PM »

Hi Guys
 I am going through the exact same question and have e-mailed Gecko on the subject looking at the schematic it reads if i understand it correctly that the same +5v can be used to trigger a fault by putting it to ground my question is if the +5v is coming from the computer will this take out the power supply for the computer i have my geckos set up where after the machine has booted up i can reset the Geckos by pressing a momentary switch and off we go but what i want now is an E-stop, so can i take the +5V and set it to ground with out damaging the computer in any way the machine is almost finished and i don't want to screw it up now.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: April 17, 2008, 10:21:46 AM »

the above is for Lazy turn or Mach 3 i am talking about LT.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: April 16, 2008, 10:36:03 AM »

Looks like not much is going on with Mach in general no new version's.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: March 31, 2008, 01:38:22 PM »

Thanks RC i did download that one waiting for full functiioning version.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: March 27, 2008, 01:08:20 PM »

Hi Guy's
Just checking in is L-turn working and can i downlaod a version.

Dennis

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: March 12, 2008, 08:42:34 PM »

Hi Art and guy's
Is the L-turn ready to test yet.

Dennsi