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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 23, 2014, 06:41:30 PM »
Art,

My mistake... when I went to uncheck the debounce for the limit switch I unchecked the e-stop trip and then when I was testing it it would home everytime. I tried the debounce in both the e-stop and the limit set at 200 and it had no effect. I will do like you said. the reason I'm homing in a positive direction is because it's a Lathe with the tool post in front. I figured I made it work with Mach3 so I can make it work with this. Maybe I can't... I'm probably the only one trying to put it on a lathe right now. Thanks again for your help!

Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 23, 2014, 05:47:41 PM »
Art,

I think that was it.... when I set the debounce for the limit switch it had no affect, but when I set it to 100 for the e-stop and referanced it maybe 20 times and it worked right every time with the limit enabled. gonna have to go through my wiring. Thanks for all your help!

Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 23, 2014, 04:47:18 PM »
Art,

If I disable the limits in mach4 it seems to home everytime and I can jog off the switch no problems. I forgot to mention I did not have the X-- limit enabled at all.

and this is the 1.18 version of Darwin ..... the config plugin window says 1.160 and in Darwin it show 1.11 and version 1.18

Thanks Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 23, 2014, 04:22:49 PM »
Hey Art, here are 2 of my history files.... I did not change any settings between them... on history1 the leds that turn on in diagnostics are the X++ limit, the Xhome and ref changes to green and I can't jog... if I disable and enable again it changes the ref to red again and i can jog off the switch.

on history2 the leds in diagnostics that come on are the X++ limit and the Xhome and the ref stays red. it tripps the estop and I can renable and it lets me jog off the switch.

other times it seems like I can referance it and all works right. could this be an issue with noise I tried to use the debounce but it won't save that setting.

Thanks Dave



history1

Axis 0 Estop capability disabled for homing
Axis Homing begins on Axis 0
Home switch X Home tripped!
Limit switch X ++ tripped!
Axis 0  Homed with 5 steps decel after switch
All Homing Complete




history2

Axis 0 Estop capability disabled for homing
Axis 0 Estop capability re-enabled after homing
Axis Homing begins on Axis 0
Darwin Calls for EStop.
Home switch X Home tripped!
Limit switch X ++ tripped!
Signal 5 set to 0
Warning::EStop signal inhibited for XHome till cleared

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 23, 2014, 01:21:55 PM »
  "Yet another version of darwin for those with slaved axis. This will stop an exception that occured
with slaves. "


Hey Art, If we don't use slaved axises, do you still recomend that we install the latest version of Darwin?

Thanks Dave

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 18, 2014, 10:41:59 PM »
Art, Thanks for the explanation on the signals .... it definitely had me confused... all my outputs in mach4 are unchecked and everything seems to be working good now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 18, 2014, 05:51:02 PM »
Ok originally in mach3 I had pins 9 and 14 as spindle forward and reverse and could not make that work for mach4 and Darwin now I moved it to pins 8 and 9 and it works great. and then pin 1 is the 0-10v analog signal for the vfd which also works great... I just need to get everything set so the speed will be right.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 18, 2014, 04:22:36 PM »
I have pin 14 on both of my BOB that shows 5v when the display in Darwin is red and when I toggle it to green it gos to 0v... is that backwards or am I confused? the negate check box is unchecked

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 16, 2014, 12:24:06 PM »
 " You can set a spearate one, OR just check the box labeled "ETrip" on the home switch signal in Darwin. The switch will then be both a limit
and a home. It will turn off as a limit during homing, or when you reset after hitting it trips an Estop, and it will reengage when you jog off it."



Hello Art, you can mark me down for wanting threading too.... got my home and limits working perfectly.... I was trying to make that way more complicated than it needed to be.... Thanks!!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions
« on: August 15, 2014, 04:28:14 PM »
Hello all.... does the combination limit/home switches work for Darwin and if so do I set a separate input signal for each one?

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