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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Not Closing After Enabling Modbus

« on: December 06, 2016, 01:44:46 PM »

I disabled virus protection and nothing changed.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach Not Closing After Enabling Modbus

« on: December 06, 2016, 12:14:55 PM »

I am implementing Modbus control of a spindle. Once I check the Modbus InputOutput Support box on the Config - Ports and Pins screen I have a problem closing Mach. It appears to close, but when I try to start Mach again it will not open. I have to go into task manager and end the task for Mach.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Counting Pulses on an Input

« on: August 24, 2016, 09:53:40 AM »

Thank you for the reply. On my current machine I have encoders on each axis of the gantry so I can determine if one side stalls and then e-stop so as to not rack he gantry. I am building a new machine and learned about the pulse that the new G214 drivers provide and am looking for a way I could accomplish the same thing without encoders. In addition, I could do this for any axis just to be warned if I am losing steps. I do not believe I am losing steps, but like the idea of a warning if I am and I also want to provide the fail safe so as to not rack the gantry. Just looking for a new approach that is simple. I have no intention to try to close the loop. One day the driver will hopefully have that capability.

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VB and the development of wizards / Counting Pulses on an Input

« on: August 23, 2016, 11:51:36 PM »

The newly released Gecko G214 drive has an output signal (FULLSTEP OUT) that will send out a pulse each time the drive passes a full step. I want to write a macro that will count the FULLSTEP pulses and compare that to  the distance moved over a given period of time to determine if steps were lost.

Does MACH have the ability to count/accumulate pulses on a given input?