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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How To Tell When A G-Code Program Is Running?

« on: October 30, 2009, 10:26:44 AM »

One more thing to the OP.  The cycle start light goes off during and M1 pause.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: How To Tell When A G-Code Program Is Running?

« on: October 26, 2009, 10:09:17 AM »

But, if your gcode has a macro, the cycle start light goes out when the macro is running.

Update:  I stand corrected.  Its when you type a macro in the MDI that the cycle start doesnt light up.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ****WIN SOME GECKODRIVES****

« on: November 16, 2008, 12:56:41 PM »

Done and posted to Cnczone. Thanks for the heads up. 

-Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ****WIN SOME GECKODRIVES****

« on: November 07, 2008, 08:09:23 AM »

Got my submission started. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Rogers Encoder board

« on: October 19, 2008, 11:03:34 AM »

Thanks for the advise, I will try an larger following error in the config. Just off the top of head if i do that change and my servos are not following the DRO's to within a responsible spec, my parts will not be accurate.

True, if there is a problem with your machine.  Remember, that the closed loop plugin is only supposed to catch an error.  I only meant to turn it up for a test. 

Control box, compressor and CPU are all on separate circuits. My thoughts are to have a line conditioner on the control box that regulates voltage when the compressor spike occurs. Does that sound reasonable?  I must be losing steps on the gecko drives. Its a big 3 phase Ingorsol Rand compressor and when it kicks on the lights in the shop dim ever so  slightly.

I dont know anything about line conditioners or anything like it, myself.  I plug my controller into a battery backup for a PC (www.apcc.com), to accommodate for small glitches in the power... like my air compressor.  I'm not saying 'go buy one', but if you happen to have one around the house, you might drag it out to the shop and give it a try.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Rogers Encoder board

« on: October 19, 2008, 09:39:13 AM »

Rogers says that the biggest problem is noise. 

#1) So, I'd guess that your compressor gives off said noise, or

#2) The compressor causes a spike in the juice and something (controller, motors, etc) is reacting to it, causing the board to catch the error.  Turn your following error up to something crazy like 1.00  Then run the machine and cause the compressor to come on.  If it stiill resets, you could rule out suggestion #2

-Nick

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Flash Screens / Re: Problem flash

« on: October 14, 2008, 02:40:02 PM »

Try the "mach nation 11-20.SWF" in this thread --> http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,6960.0.html

Its about the 3rd or 4th post down.

Out of curiousity, are you trying to load the screen by mach>view[pull down]>load screen>browse to file  ?

I dont know anything else it could be (not that I know that much anyway ).

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Flash Screens / Re: Problem flash

« on: October 13, 2008, 02:03:15 PM »

Make SURE that you only have ONE "flash.dll" file in the C:\Mach3\PlugIns folder.

Also, check that you have the flash plug-in enabled in the mach>config [pull down menu]>config plugins.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: DRO's way out when re-starting

« on: October 13, 2008, 09:48:16 AM »

I have had this problem for a year and a half now..  Yes, persistant dros are checked.  Its always a few hundred inches out on the restart.  I wonder if it may be a symptom of my closed loop plug-in.

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Flash Screens / Re: Problem flash

« on: October 13, 2008, 09:17:01 AM »

Dont know if its right or wrong, but try this one--> http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,7070.0.html