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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 28, 2014, 11:01:08 AM »

Hi Mike:
 
  Fear not, its not a serious situation , the driver simply didnt load. Im not sure why. Did your install tell you to reboot after installing?

  I doubt very much you have the driver installed. First, this is a 32 bit XP, right? 64 bit wont work..

 If it is 32 bit...

  Open your control panel, select add hardware and after it searches, pick "Yes, I have installed.".  Then pick "Add new Hardware Device" form the menu. Then select "Install hardware I manually select". Then select "Show all devices"

Select Have Disk... Browse to the folder with the files Darwin.sys and darwin.inf in it. Select Darwin.inf and press OK.. it should load the driver that way or give you an error. THEN REBOOT if it loads. Do not attempt to run MAch4 or you will crash. If the driver loads you need a reboot if its the first time youve loaded
mach3 or darwin on this machine. If youve run mach3 with a printer port, no reboot is required..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 27, 2014, 06:20:48 PM »

Hi:

  Any signal will blink if it has a fequency set to it, a Charge pump usually does ..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 27, 2014, 10:17:17 AM »

Hi All:

  Here is a version of Darwin with an installer. This is not an update, but simply an installer for easier
use.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 25, 2014, 10:03:34 AM »

Jerry:

  Post your machine.ini when its not working but should be. Might be some setting that Darwin is screwing up on when saving..
( Or it might be Mach4 is limited to 3 axis.. I havent used 4 yet..)


Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 23, 2014, 08:19:31 PM »

Dave:

  As far as I know, you can turn on that x++ switch, but not set it to Estop. It will then stop motion, but position is remembered.
SO just stop the Estop portion of the limit and I think it will be fine..
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 23, 2014, 05:51:32 PM »

Dave:

   I think for now Id kill the X++ switch and set the home switch to Etrip. Tht way it will act as a safety unless your homing..

Im not sure why the X++ would do that as yet... but then your one of a few that home in a positive direction..Ill give it thought.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 23, 2014, 04:41:54 PM »

Hi Guys:

  This version saves the debounce settings in case your system has noise.

Thx
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 23, 2014, 04:32:52 PM »

Hi Dave:
 OK, a couple questions..cuz that all looks fairly good.

1) What happens if the X++ limits are turned off in Mach?
2) upgrade darwins plugin the one published this afternoon, it has a message not appearing in this history.

  It may be noise, if it homes OK much of the time that makes sense. I wasnt
aware that wouldnt save, Ill fix that right away..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 23, 2014, 01:38:23 PM »

Dave:

 Shouldnt be any reason to, its the only change and it isnt triggered unless one has slaved axis.. so I htink your
OK to skip it.

Thx
Art
www.gearotic.com

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 23, 2014, 12:59:09 PM »

Hi All:

  Yet another version of darwin for those with slaved axis. This will stop an exception that occured
with slaves.

 Plugin only changed in this version from last. This is plugin 1.17

Thx
Art