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General Mach Discussion / Re: G76 Lathe Theading Problem

« on: January 24, 2016, 11:23:54 AM »

Unfortunately I do not have the time to walk you through an entire CNC machine build to help you understand the problem.

What you're essentially saying here is that although others have this working and are willing to help you don't have the time to give them the required info about your system to be able to help you.
Obvious conclusions are that

(i) The software works.
(ii) You're happy to solve the problems without the generous support provided here to the owners of shonky machines.
(iii) You'll need to get the support of whoever built your machine to get it working.

Good luck with that ;-)

 - Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with first retrofit project - won't run

« on: January 18, 2016, 10:31:14 AM »

Same here, it may be that you need your PP to occupy one of the common legacy addresses (all mine do) for it to work, what PC and OS are you using

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with first retrofit project - won't run

« on: January 18, 2016, 09:51:51 AM »

I don't know why there's an x in there as the second character in what's supposed to be a Hexadecimal address but when I tried it without it didn't work.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with first retrofit project - won't run

« on: January 18, 2016, 09:49:05 AM »

Try Bx400

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with first retrofit project - won't run

« on: January 18, 2016, 09:47:29 AM »

It should be on the Resources tab when you view the port's properties in device manager

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with first retrofit project - won't run

« on: January 18, 2016, 09:31:10 AM »

I changed that to LPT1

And checked it's address and ensured that address is the address selected or entered in Mach3?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Creating G-Code

« on: January 12, 2016, 07:13:03 AM »

Before I got my CNC running I spent a couple of months of my spare time reading up on G Code.
I've found that it's good to have an idea what the code is doing but I've found it so quick and easy to use CAD/CAM for 2D stuff that I haven't felt the need to hand code,

 - Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: An unusual problem

« on: January 09, 2016, 11:11:43 AM »

Sorry, assumed level of knowledge & all that
VFD - Variable Frequency Drive - I use them to run 3 phase motors at variable speed with a single phase supply, some are nice and clean but I have one real dirty one in the workshop that knocks out the radio and causes jitter on my CNC machines. 
RF Filter - Radio Frequency Filter - a tin box your mains passes through to get to the load, it's a low pass filter that presents negligible resistance to mains frequency but which blocks the passage of the higher frequency nasty stuff on the power lines,
Regards,
Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: An unusual problem

« on: January 09, 2016, 10:29:43 AM »

I have an mains RF filter on a VFD which knocks out a lot of noise, if you can identify the source of a noise problem that's the best place to deal with it,
Regards,
Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: An unusual problem

« on: January 09, 2016, 08:04:17 AM »

A UPS will clean up the mains to the point where the operation of a PC, TV or other household item will not be affected by mains fluctuations, more sensitive equipment (including many, but not all CNC systems) can still be affected.
Freezers, Fridges, Central Heating Gas Control Valves and lots of other things can still kick out enough RF interference to cause a glitch,
Regards,
Nick