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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Random Crash

« on: December 28, 2016, 05:32:46 PM »

Update:  after disabling everything I can find including wdm, power management, etc, the crash still happens.  I have attached a screenshot of the bluescreenview results as well as the latest dump.
It only happens with mach running, and it seems to always happen after I remove power from servos, i.e. by estop which disables mach4.  doesnt happen every time, if I try to make it happen it wont.  
Mach closes first.  if I try to click an icon on the desktop it says program has moved or was deleted.... then bsod.
thanks for any help!  big job coming up dont want any mistakes!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Random Crash

« on: November 03, 2016, 11:50:37 AM »

Great! thanks for the replies!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 Random Crash

« on: October 25, 2016, 07:56:03 PM »

Mach has been crashing on me lately with the below message.  Shortly after the message it will blue screen.  Usually happens when machine is sitting idle.  Machine is windows 7 with pokeys56e and hicon integra controller.  Mach version is 4.2.0.3155 (licensed).  Any way to trace this down?

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PoKeys / Re: PoIL and Mach4 plugin

« on: September 13, 2016, 08:21:38 PM »

I made that way too complicated in my head.  Just select the input pins for shared slot communication in PoBlocks and it works like magic!  Biggest issue I learned was you can't invert a pin in PoBlocks if it isn't inverted in Mach.

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PoKeys / Re: PoIL and Mach4 plugin

« on: September 11, 2016, 11:01:37 AM »

That's what I did in poblocks.  Problem is I want it to work while running mach4.  Is there a way to view the code that makes this happen to help me integrate it into the mach plc lua code?

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PoKeys / Re: PoIL and Mach4 plugin

« on: September 11, 2016, 10:01:40 AM »

Thanks for the answer.  What I am trying to do is add a beeper to my key presses in mach4.  I have it working in poblocks with a pwm output, but not sure how to do it with mach active.

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PoKeys / PoIL and Mach4 plugin

« on: September 10, 2016, 02:43:02 PM »

Is it possible to program the pokeys 56e with poblocks and use the mach4 plugin at the same time?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: LOVING the PMC!! Thanks Steve!!!

« on: September 07, 2016, 07:52:42 PM »

I figured out I had to do a fresh install of the latest version to get the Hicon to communicate properly.  I now have a dozen or so rungs working in the PMC.  I am stuck on one right now that I just can't figure out.  I have LED's that represent different jog increments (.01, .001, .0001).  I have Mach4 setup to only step through these increments.  I want each LED to light up when the corresponding step increment is active.  I tried reading the jogincx variable into PMC using a read from register instruction, but it seems it is not reading the decimal value (I assume because the variable is long dim).  How do I read this data type?
Thanks!
and BTW, I am way ahead of where I would be without the PMC.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: LOVING the PMC!! Thanks Steve!!!

« on: September 02, 2016, 08:07:19 PM »

I guess I have to play it safe.  the Hicon plugin only supports up to 2914.  PMC is looking good though.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: LOVING the PMC!! Thanks Steve!!!

« on: September 02, 2016, 05:47:10 PM »

Why can't I find the PMC?  I have the most recent version downloaded from the main page.

Edit* just realized I have to go to the ftp site to get the most recent builds.  Is it safe to grab the latest release or should I stay back a couple?