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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 19, 2016, 08:58:11 PM »

I would have thought the Estop relay was triggered by the ChargePump, Im not sure why it cant trigger it, should be just a matter of finding
the correct frequency for it.. If Mach3 can drive it, I suspect M4 can, but it may be hard tyo figure the exact settings to do so.
Sorry it was so difficult..

Art
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 19, 2016, 06:50:49 AM »

Funny, in those docs it tells you the 4th axis is available if the charge pump is turned off.. but doesnt tell you how to turn it off..

  Anyway, if your sure the charge pump isnt happening, then probably best to troubleshoot that.
In darwin, there is a reset on the ports page to put darwin out of any estop it may be in... us that first
so that darwin is not in ready state,m if it wont come out of Estop, then check the Estop input isnt inverted
or something, Reset should work and turn the system green to go.

   Next, check that charge pump, it should as you saw turn yellow if set to a frequency output, test it at 12.5Khz and also at 25Khz..
or a few others... some boards are very sensitive to frequency so maybe its pulsing too fast for it.. or too slow..

See if any of that gets the board to reset properly..

Art
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 18, 2016, 06:14:27 PM »

Well, if the DRO's count, then M4 "thinks" all is fine, as does Darwin. That leaves only the  charge pump stopping motion really, did you try jumpering it off on the board to see if this enables motion?

Art
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: June 18, 2016, 07:23:46 AM »

>>Motors set and enabled plugin ,mapped mach 4 and enabled ,steps set initial vel and acc set to square wave, and nada nothing will move

  Do the DRO's count when you try to move?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: May 10, 2016, 03:00:30 PM »

>>I think that if the spindle is configured as a step-dir motor in Darwin, then the Darwin jog function would cause the motor to turn.

  No, that would only happen if you mapped the motor to an axis. If using OutOfBand, you need to define a motor in Darwin, then
set its pins appropriately, DIR for CW or CCW, and step for the frequency output. Darwin has been tested with either setup, but
one isnt really superiour to the other. You should be able to get the frequency one working as easily or easier.

 When you select an M3S100, if the spindle is properly configured and mapped as an output signal, Darwin will write entries into the
debug log ( not the normal log, the error log..). If your not getting any messages, such as  "Freq Spindle: 200 hz" , in the error log,
then either Darwin isnt seeing a mapped signal to Darwin for output, or Its not seeing Frequency mode selected in Darwins diagnostics
config. 

Art
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: May 07, 2016, 09:27:33 PM »

Its hard to say without knowing how its wired.. Doesn't look like step/direction to me, looks like you have 2 relays for controlling cw or ccw, so You have to make an output signal in Darwin called SpindleCW at set it to pin 2, make another for SpindleCCW and set it to pin3 . You then make a third output signal Called SpindleFreq.

  In Mach3, turn off that spindle axis. In Mach4's config for output signals, select the SpindleCW, SpindleCCW and SpindleOutput signals and map
them the Darwins new output signals. In Diagnostics/Darwin, set a low freq of 0, and a high freq of 20,000.

  Restart, and command an M3S5000, see what happens...You should get debug messages telling you what Darwin is trying to do with the m3 ....



Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: May 04, 2016, 05:21:32 PM »

It used to be in debug/darwin, but I think its in diagnostic/Darwin now..

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: May 04, 2016, 03:47:16 PM »

and you mapped signal 6 to Spindle on in mach4?

(Look in the debug hsitory at turn on, darwin reports all it does when an M3 comes in. Alos, in config/Darwin, you must select frequency spindle and set the min and max frequency..

Art


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: May 04, 2016, 01:50:20 PM »

I think your on your way..

  Read the spindle posts on the previous posts on this thread.. they explain how a spindle connects

Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: May 04, 2016, 12:25:30 PM »

Sounds like its going into Estop in Darwin, liek the polarity is off.. In Mach4, make sure all Darwin signals in and out  are set to ActiveHi..

 If thats a problem swap them in Darwin, not in Mach4.

Art