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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: computer requirements for mach 4
« on: November 19, 2017, 09:05:38 AM »
If you have a registered license, you can go the with Machsupport.com web
site and log in to use the License Maintenance button to issue additional
licenses to yourself for up to a total of 5 computers for hobby use.

Perfect.  I had read somewhere that M4 did not allow more than one computer per license.  Glad to hear that is incorrect.  I am waiting for a HDMI to VGA converter I want to use to attach an older monitor to the LP (the 7" screen is just not "old eyes" compatible).  I probably sound like a real cheapskate using all this minimal hardware, but more than the cost savings, I want to see if it can be done.  I am definitely a Journey over Destination kind of guy.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: computer requirements for mach 4
« on: November 18, 2017, 06:30:43 PM »
Craig:  I bought the LattePanda 4G and managed to download and run Mach4 demo mode ok.  I currently have M4 running on a win7 pc.  I would like to try cutting something running M4 on the LattePanda.  I don't want to give up the licensed version that I have on the PC until I am reasonably sure that the LattePanda would work for me.  According to the licensing agreement, I can not run M4 on two machines at a time.  Do you know if unlicensed M4 can be used for testing before I move the license over from the PC?

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Right now,  I have the estop connected between pin 10 and 12 on the g540.   There is really no connection directly to the ESS for the EStop, so I guess it's no surprise that ESS doesn't know it's been activated.  Unless I am mistaken though, that's the way it was wired when I used the PDMX 411, and Mach4 seemed to be aware of the EStop status.


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Well as far as I can tell right now, seems that everything is working.  I didn't just plug it in and try it as you suggested, but that probably would have worked.  At any rate, came back to it again today and everything was working magically.  Maybe I just needed to shut everything down and fire it up again.  The only thing I had to do is switch directions on a couple of the motors.  Even the EStop is working correctly

Although, I do have a question about the EStop.  As I said, it"s working, but differently than it did with the PDMX 411.  Now when I hit the EStop, it shuts the motors down as it should...not locking them, but stopping any motion.  But now it seems that Mach 4 is not aware of the EStop being pressed....the screen keeps updating as if it were still cutting as usual.  I don't know that this is a problem, but it certainly is different than it was.  I have the Estop on port1; pin 10.  Is there something else I should do or is normal behavior (now)?

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Ah.  Need to pay better attention to where I am posting. 

Sorry to be such a block head, but Ia m not quite sure what you mean by "In the first instance just use the ESS to drive the G540, ie all in one port."

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Dude1:  the link you specified seems to be for Mach 3 and I am using Mach 4.  Are they interchangeable when it comes to setup?

All and all, I thnk I have over-complicated this process, but just need to figure out how.  At present, when I try to "enable" the moters, it won't.  I suspect that it is becuase of the eStop setting

joeaverrage:  I think I just need to start over again and try to keep everything on port1 for now and see what I run into.  I will leave the estop on the g540 and proceed from there.  I do need to find a breakout board for port 2 as I am sure I will want to use those ports for other stuff. 

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General Mach Discussion / converting from PDMX 411 to ESS and using g540
« on: November 12, 2017, 11:04:03 AM »
I have purchased and started setting up ESS on my Ox using Mach 4 and Gecko g540.  I've been going through Warp9's extensive documentation.  Since I don"t exactly know what I am doing, i've elected to use their setting (even though they say my settings will vary) and am getting a bit lost.  I wounder if there is anything out there that might address ESS and g540 specifically.

The first (of many) questions I have concerns the Estop.  When connecting the eStop with the PDXM 411 controller, I connected to a couple pins on the back of the g540.  It appears that ESS expects the estop to be setup on port2 of the ESS.  Is that what have to do?

Secondly:  I at present have the g540 plugged into port 1 on the ESS.  It appears that a lot of stuff is expected to be connected through port2 (at least in the tutorials).  Is there some sort of port breakout board I need to find to hook up to port2.

Also, it would be great if I could hook up with someone using ESS with the g540.

Sorry, but I did warn that I don/t know what I am doing.

Charlie


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: computer requirements for mach 4
« on: November 07, 2017, 06:58:51 PM »
For what ever reason, the win 7 machine rose from the dead.  I may have to revive this question later but for now, I’m good.  Thanks for the responses.

Joeaverage: I must say that the idea of running a win 10 sbc intrigues me though.  I looked at the lattepanda sbc.  It does not seam to have a VGA connector, so I am unclear if I would have to replace my existing monitor with a different type. 

Thanks. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / computer requirements for mach 4
« on: November 05, 2017, 12:33:01 PM »
I am a hobbiest and have been happily running mach 4 for some time now on a dell optiplex 780 with 4GB of memory and windows 7 pro.  Just found out that computer has gone belly up and need to figure out what I can do.   Very bad timing as I have been hit with a bunch of unforseen expenses this month, so I am looking for a cheap way out.  I have a  2gb Win XP machine that I retired some time ago and was wondering if that machine will run Mach 4.  Anybody know the minumum machine requirements for Mach 4

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Thank you all very much.  That gives me what I need to start moving forward. 

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