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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with new board

« on: August 13, 2016, 02:13:11 PM »

I am building the electronics cabinet on my Homemade CNC,

I see that your USBCNC  board is using USB and not a Parallel port,

for us to help you we (I) need a (or more) photos of the control box.

Did the DC (should be 24-40vdc) transformer survive?

regards

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General Mach Discussion / Re: using auto tool zero with xbox controller

« on: August 13, 2016, 12:20:12 PM »

Gosh that was quick.... thanks I will try afterwards or tommorrow, I drank wine with my dinner so its not a good time right now lol

Um which Xbox controller "script" did you use? one is called Shilling Systems and one is by Lee Davis?

I follow GuruBrew on Utube and he has both a "film" for Zeroing and using an Xbox controller

Regards

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General Mach Discussion / Re: using auto tool zero with xbox controller

« on: August 13, 2016, 08:40:57 AM »

Hi Charlie M,

Are you still coming here?

I too want use my Xbox controller to initiate the auto tool zero function

Its a shame you only gave hints on how to do it, I wonder if you could go through it as I dont know much about coding etc.

Regards

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Vectric Aspire Wrapping problem

« on: June 11, 2016, 04:02:54 AM »

I really have not tried this so please dont be too hard on me.

I am building my own cnc from scratch and I noticed this video on how to setup axis.

it seems you force the cnc do a predictable distance say 18 inches, then measure the actual distance and find the % error. (the bigger the number the better)

this guy explains it so much better and he has a marvellous accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QybY4DFFzkM

I understand its not a video on rotational axis but it might help as you seem to be getting the wrong results.

One last thing are you useing inches and millimeters and mixing them somehow, I suppose you may have used a another (turning) interface and it needs calibrating?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can Mach3 recover RPM drops?

« on: May 13, 2016, 03:56:09 PM »

If your spindle is losing revs I saw some way of keeping them up using something called SuperPid, try looking for them with Google.

There is another not so expencive way a sort of DIY superpid, goto YouTube and search for "DIY Arduino CNC Spindle Speed Control"

I hope this helps