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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help

« on: June 05, 2015, 04:56:17 PM »

Yeah, I am in the same boat you are in. I couldn't get my machine to jog for some time and found out the OS on my computer was too new. But if you go to ports and pins tab on top left corner, there should be a motor tuning option. click on it and you can make adjustments. You just always have to "save axis settings" before closing the screen, otherwise it will not make the changes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help

« on: June 05, 2015, 03:39:44 PM »

are you only getting a humming sound from the motors? And are they locked where you cant turn them at all manually?

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General Mach Discussion / plasma start/stop switch

« on: June 05, 2015, 03:37:38 PM »

Anyone got any advice on how to set up the plasma on/off switch in mach 3? Been tracing with the machine trying to figure out all the g-code and everything and really happy now. Went out and bought a hypertherm with the machine torch and now just need to setup so that the computer/controller can start and stop the arc. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance

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General Mach Discussion / 620 in-oz motors not working

« on: May 05, 2015, 10:05:09 PM »

Anyone familiar with the 8 wire stepper motors? I am getting signal to my steppers from the driver, but the motors just hum and they stay locked. Not sure what my problem is.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC will not jog

« on: May 05, 2015, 07:39:19 PM »

Tweakie,

Any chance that because i am trying to run this on Windows 7 64-bit it will not work?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC will not jog

« on: April 30, 2015, 12:15:29 PM »

Am I looking under Section 4 "Hardware issues and connecting machine tools"?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC will not jog

« on: April 30, 2015, 10:02:12 AM »

"A usage guide for Mach3Mill/Plasma release 1.84"? is this the guide you are referring to?

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General Mach Discussion / CNC will not jog

« on: April 29, 2015, 04:00:45 PM »

OK, so we bought this CNC kit. Came with table, motors, Gecko G540 controller, and trial version of Mach 3. Setup up everything, wired the motors, installed the mach3 and open xml file to connect with Gecko G540 and nothing. The motors hum as if there is something happening and they are locked, but cannot jog the unit with mach 3. Am i missing something with the setup? thanks