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General Mach Discussion / Re: MX4660 from Leadshine

« on: June 03, 2015, 03:01:45 PM »

I am running the 4660 for about 3 month now.
Had a 3660 that had an issue right out the box.
Reseller let me upgrade to the 4660 which came out about the same time as i was owed a replacement.
No issues with 4660. Seems to work fine. Running at 48VDC and ESS.
Also running 3x 57HS22 320oz-in Leadshine steppers on it also.
4th axis ready when i get around to it later this summer.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ethernet Smooth Stepper Problems - Stops at the same place EVERY time

« on: June 01, 2015, 02:16:34 PM »

I just debugged a problem with my mach3/ESS setup. Any chance you are stopping near a flood or mist or spindle change?

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General Mach Discussion / MACH3 Pendant/Remote for iOS and other Platforms

« on: May 21, 2015, 09:12:40 AM »

I thought i would show a preview of what i have been working on for the last week.
This is revision 0 and is a still a work in progress.
This is my first Mach3 modbus and brain work. So i am sure it can be optimized in the future.

Its a Mach3 Pendant/Remote hosted on my iPad and iPhone.

Solution is based on platform independent SCADA package, and can be hosted on Android or PC (Window or Linux).
Comms at Modbus TCP.

Cash cost was $10 for one screen SCADA runtime for iOS.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscada-mobile-one/id576234797?mt=8

Modbus Slave app i used was a free download.
http://www.modbusdriver.com/diagslave.html

Anyways, i did a video showing it working last night.
I look forward to your feedback. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNdRprYsPg&feature=youtu.be

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General Mach Discussion / Re: This cut is as bad as it gets

« on: May 19, 2015, 04:05:28 PM »

Not being insulting, cause i have done if before, and the resulting mess kinda looked like that.

Is the spindle turning the correct direction?

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Brains Development / Re: Brain based home switching

« on: May 19, 2015, 03:13:20 PM »

Ok i look in the button script for REF ALL HOME, it refs each axis, then it zeros each encoder.

So, i need to zero the encoders, but buttons 131,132,133 are not in brain PressButton list.

Also, when i am on my setting screen, and i press the zero button beside the encoders, nothing happens.

So anybody know how to zero encoder (zero a machine axis) from a brain?

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Brains Development / Brain based home switching

« on: May 19, 2015, 12:10:56 PM »

I am testing some ideas in MACH3 in a off line installation (simulation).

I have configured modbus tcp input that has bits 0-2 for to setting home x, home y, home z inputs (soft switches).

I made a brain that sets each home input and then stops all actions when each bit is set.
So its fast, home is set be one shot timer, stop action is set be second delayed timer.

Diagnostics shows modbus and brain are working. I see the M1Home, M2Home and M3Home LEDs flash on the diagnostic page.

When i ref each axis, or all axis, the brain stops the homing travel as expected, but the machine DRO is not zeroed.
I have auto zero set in the homing and limits setup.

Home do i get the machine to zero?

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Brains Development / Re: DRO for Feedrate set by GCode

« on: May 13, 2015, 12:30:13 PM »

Ok! So a bunch of stuff is not listed under DRO.
But it has a "Use DRO Number" and says 1000-225 in valid

So i tried 818 anyways, and it works! LOL

BR549, i agree, Mach3 is a big mess, in terms of documentation!
You gotta be willing to search a lot more than you should have to, read a lot, here other places and watch a lot of youtube, and spend a crap load of time piecing the crumbs together to get a piece of bread!

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Brains Development / Re: DRO for Feedrate set by GCode

« on: May 13, 2015, 11:51:25 AM »

I used list on the wiki too.
But, In my brain editor, i pick DRO, and 18 and 818 are not listed! Actually 18 is listed, but as G92A Z off!

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Brains Development / DRO for Feedrate set by GCode

« on: May 13, 2015, 11:32:09 AM »

Can somebody tell me which DRO number/name the feed rate set by gcode is?
I want the one with the arrow in the attached pic.

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Brains Development / Functions list for brain formulas

« on: May 13, 2015, 08:11:10 AM »

Where can I find a list of functions and operators that can be used in brains formula?

It say you can use % which is modulus, but it doesn't seen to work.

Are there round, floor, ceil functions?

Complete listing would be nice if somebody knows where it could be found.