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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Getting up and running in Vista

« on: August 20, 2012, 08:39:11 PM »

No..if you remove the cable, then the signal floats and noise can drive the motor. All you proved is the breakout board seems to work. ( seems to..)

Basicallly, you seem to have no output from the printer port. Id double check that 378 thing..it shoudl read 0x378, but only if under the resource tab of your device managers
printer port entry also shows 0x378, otherwise it may be wrong. Your pulse freq is jumping too much but it should work anyway if the printer port is OK.
Measure the port pin with the cable off to see if the voltage changes from roughly 5 volts to zero on the  DIR pin. For example if the DIR pin is
pin 3, then measure from pin3 to pin 25 ( ground) and see if it toggles when you jog one way then the other. You cant measure a step pin, its frequency is
too fast. If the DIR pin is working, then the step pin is likely fine too. If the DIR pin works, then you may just need a wider step pulse , but see if the DIR Pin is OK
forst, its the best way to start.

Art

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Getting up and running in Vista

« on: August 20, 2012, 07:14:08 PM »

Check the diags page, if it shows a pulse frequency of around 25000, and your dro's move when you jog, then its probably just the setting of the port address thats wrong.

Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: February 13, 2012, 06:19:42 PM »

  I hope to run experiments within a couple months to see whats possisble in a new driver. Win8 will not run the PP driver even in 32 bit mode, I tried it already,
so any future for the PP requires a new driver. If I have to do that, I may try a 64 bit version as well.
( Just saying.. lol )

Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 20, 2012, 04:47:41 PM »

Lasers do such NICE work, dont they? lol

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 18, 2012, 03:10:59 PM »

Thanks Brian, thats was the original request on this thread, I think it was misunderstood as a gripe about somethign not being available, but I knew the code was tied to
output so it shoudl have worked. Its mainly for lasers or impact printers, but the impact printing has been a busy thread and Ive been impressed with Tweakies results in that as well as the interest others have in impact printing, so thats a functionallity that should stay for extenral device makers who wish to offer it. Any printer port plugin will have a hook for it.

 Preciate the clarification.
Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 18, 2012, 01:07:53 PM »

Tweakie:

   Quite a discussion here since your question on E0P1 etc..

  Andrew tells me that function was not removed, it shoudl still work. Can you describe exactly what its doing?
Does it just stop.. or does it stop working after so many lines??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 13, 2012, 07:56:25 AM »

Tweakie:

  Thx, that narrows it down , also makes it applicaion, not driver so at least I know I didnt make that bug on my end
over time. . Ill discuss it with Brian when he returns and we'll see whats up.

Have fun,
Art

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 12, 2012, 09:06:10 PM »

Tweakie:

  While I think about it... did this problem affect your impact plugin? That seems to have the same functionallity, but in reality uses a totally different methodology? Id like to know if that still works..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 12, 2012, 09:01:52 PM »

Actually, , the moderators here often ask me to comment when they see someone with a legitimate problem when Brian isnt available.
Cant speak for him, but in problems like this one Brians pretty good about finding an error.


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 12, 2012, 06:47:59 PM »

Tweakie:

   I hadnt heard about E1P1 being nonfunctional. Brians at a show, but Ill ask him when he returns what the probalem might be. I think we can probably get that fixed up for you, I put it in orriginally for Laser, but Ive found it has other uses as well so Id hate to see it go away as well, but in this case, if it did go away , Im thinking it was nonintentional.
  Its basically a driver extra command to do soemthign during a particular step pulse. Liek you said, impact as well as Laser needs it so I dont think it is purposelfully gone.

  In fact, it may be something I did to the driver on some iteration or another and was not reported to me, but I will look into it, and see about getting it fixed. I know where its generated and I cant see any macro changes having broke it, but Ill check when Brian gets back ..

Thx
Art