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General Mach Discussion / Can anybody help me with these problems

« on: February 19, 2016, 01:14:06 PM »

I purchased a 3040t cnc from ebay, seller was in portsmouth. CNC arrived from china. I purchased mach 3 from newfangled solutions but cnc would not work from mach 3. When I finally got this to work it went in reverse directions.
I contacted seller and he sent me a download I thought was a manual but turned o0ut to be mach 3, this did`nt worry me much as the seller seemed concerned I had problems but, now I cannot get my cjnc to work at all and mach 3 now says it is licensed to fabio instead of me?
I am new to all of this and I am a bit worried that I may have been ripped off. I have set up as instructed to many times and re installed mach 3 at least 10 times.
Any help would be gratefully received.

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 01:41:51 PM »

it was`nt following the toolpath until I disabled spindle. If I enable spindle it stops following toolpath? cutter moves from left to right and drill moves up and down but does not travel up and down along the bed length with spindle enabled.
It seems to all work ok with it disabled and error lights also go off.

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 12:44:13 PM »

I think I have done it now by disabling spindle errors have stopped. Many thanks to you for your help, hopefully I will get good at this but I expect I will be begging on the forum for a while yet.

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 12:23:46 PM »

Apart from the out 1 led flashing red. the only other thing that I can see that may not be correct is the led lights on the Port 1 pins current state is showing the first 3 led`s are black followed by 5 lit (green) 4 black, that may be perfectly ok I just mentioning it incase it is wrong

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 11:55:44 AM »

I`m running on luck here :-) no expertise at all first time user.
The diagnostic screen shows output 1 flashing red in the Output Signals section. I have movement on the machine but it is not following the toolpath of Roadrunner gcode. Would the machine automatically go to starrt positions when turning on? I`m just wondering if that is the problem, if it is starting in the wrong position?

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 11:16:46 AM »

Really appreciate your help with getting started.
Port settings are ok now, getting movement now (was c400)but diagmostics is showing error on output 1.
I can load and run gcode ok now but the cnc is not following the path shown on mach 3 screen?

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 08:44:07 AM »

Thankyou for your help. I did that (address was 400..thankyou) but it has made no difference. i purchased my cnd from uk but the manual is a poorly translated from chinese manual. The settings it gives; motor tuning etc are very different from the tutorials on youtube. motor movement (yioutube advises) 1800 steps per and 0 dir pulse. manual instructs steps per 400 dir pulse 10. i have tried both with no improvement. everything ion mach 3 programe appears to work on screen okay but nothing appears to be getting through to cnc

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 08:23:32 AM »

Newfangled solutions

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

« on: February 03, 2016, 07:26:00 AM »

Please help with this if you can?
I am a new beginner. I purchased mach3 which appears to have installed ok but I had to install a parallel port (com 3) the address for this that I was told to use is 0x040 can anyone tell me if this is correct please?
The software seems to run okay but I get no movement from the cnc 3040T. I am hoping this is because the port address is wrong. I am running vista any asdvice would be appreciated and could stop me jumping out the window