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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 13, 2014, 02:54:16 PM »

Sage:

  I double checked to be sure, and the dll is out of date slightly. the only change is some text on the outputs tab to warn
a user to use 1/2f for PWM base setting. Other than that function should be the same. Ill post new one here but updating
probably isnt necessary till next time..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 13, 2014, 02:50:07 PM »

Sage:

 You should see 1.1 and 1.08. The 1.1 comes from replacing the darwin.dll in the Mach4 folder, and the 1.08 is the driver itself..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 13, 2014, 11:01:06 AM »

By the way ...

 On this version I have confirmed by scope the PWM at 50hz from power 0 - 100% , the frequency outputs for spindleor general output as accruate to the
entered setting. Other then the oddity that you have to enter 1/2 base required into the pwm freq, all seems well.
  Ive been foole don the meory loss before , so please let me know if you lose your motors again, Ive run over 25 times with no loss so it looks
good.

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 13, 2014, 10:50:46 AM »

HI All;

  New darwin version is here. You need only update the plugin and the dll. The driver shouldn't need replacing.
This should fix any settings loss.

Note:  If you use a freq spindle, or frequency output, reconfig it in Darwin, the numbers have changed to properly
   reflect actual period frequencies as oppsed to toggle frequencies. So in a charge pump entering 12500 will now
properly give you 12.5Khz. If you use a PWM spindle..say at 50hz, you need to enter 25 in the box. PWM, due to the
way the timer works needs to be set to 50% of the actual base frequency used. This is also noted on the entry screen.

  MPG's are temorarily turned off for this release.

Thx
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 11, 2014, 03:49:15 PM »

Hi:

 I tested with your numbers and found a bug, next version should drive your 50hz pwm just fine,
a bug was clipping it at only a few speeds... you should notice a big change next version.

  Steve is trying to find a race condition causing the axis to disable..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 11, 2014, 07:26:05 AM »

Danielle:

  What base frequency do you have set in Mach3 and in Darwin?
Whats the min spindle speed and max spindle speed set in Mach4?
  hmm, maybe you should post your machine.ini file here so I can take
a look to see if I see anything obvious.. PWM changes here fine, Tweaky
has been able to use it as well, so Im pretty sure the code works ok..Unless
whatever bug is crashing us is affecting things...


  Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 10, 2014, 03:42:02 PM »

Peter:

 Yes, thats what i worry about, Ive reports of crashing all over with this version, so its best not to tear too deeply
till at least that problem is fixed, anythings possible when that type of thing is happening...

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 10, 2014, 02:24:54 PM »

Peter:

 Guess we'll have to wait for more testers to see if thats a common occurance. Ive gone over all the input
sections and and the processors, and cant find anything that would do that, all the port data is quite
separate in space.
   Ill keep an eye out for any info that looks similar..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 10, 2014, 12:58:30 PM »

Very weird. I cant see a way for that to work... do your versions properly show 1.09 and 1.08 on the darwin waterfall screen?

  Your ahead on scripting, I imagine screens will appear with that done in the buttons.. not something Ill deal with myself.
What happens if you disable port 1, does port 2 change any way?

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 10, 2014, 12:08:31 PM »

>>Pin mapping in the port setup appears to have some errors.  On my system, port 2 input pins 5, 6, and 7 are also tied to pins 15, 13, and 12 respectively. 

I cant seem to repeat that one. I dont have two ports, so I turned on a second port and pointed it to my only printer port.
Both ports show up with identical inputs, pins 5,6 & 7 are showing different than 15,13, and 12..

 Can you change port 2 to the port 1 address and see if those pins still mimic each other?

Thx
Art