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General Mach Discussion / Machine gone stupid...

« on: December 26, 2009, 03:21:43 PM »

I have a Mikini 1610L run on Mach3.  I've used it to produce some trail markers in the not so distant past and it worked beautifully (as far as my inexperience can tell).  I just fired it up to tinker with some new ideas and this is what happened;  The computer bobbled a few times while attempting boot and/or  got hung up just after to the point I needed to unplug its power cord and reboot.  The issue I have now is that my Z axis (mostly) gets lost.  A simple G0 Z1 will result in a Z of 0.857 (usually).  G0 Z0 does not usually bring it back to zero either... usually 0.14xx or such.  It also tends to over run when lowering.  I have a nice bit of bronze with several stab wounds and snapped bits.

Now,  is this likely the computer in its death throws or is Mach hung over from the Christmas party?  I'm close to introducing the computer to my M14 

Thanks for any insight!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine profile into Mach?

« on: April 20, 2009, 05:17:49 PM »

Got it!  Thanks! Just trying to over complicate things here...

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General Mach Discussion / Machine profile into Mach?

« on: April 20, 2009, 04:48:43 PM »

I just got a MIKINI mill and need to load it's profile into Mach.   Where do it go?   If it doesn't involve drilling a hole in my computer and dropping it in, I'm lost.

Thanks for any assistance.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Annoying problem.

« on: January 20, 2009, 09:26:30 AM »

Good idea.  I do have an enable signal from Mach.  I may just have a 'gamy' cable or port.

Thanks!

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General Mach Discussion / Annoying problem.

« on: January 20, 2009, 08:31:21 AM »

This may not actually be a 'Mach' problem, more, a computer problem.  On occasion, when I fire up my computer to tinker with my Taig mill I will have no Z axis control... it's just dead.  The Mach DRO shows movement but I don't think the signal is getting to the machine power supply.  Sometimes, rebooting will bring it back, sometimes it takes several reboots.  Last night I gave up after a half dozen reboots.  The diagnostics appear to check out as does the printer port.  I've even tried wiggling the cable to see if I can get it to respond to no avail.

Any thoughts?

Cheers,

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I killed my Mach 3...

« on: December 20, 2008, 06:03:37 PM »

Thanks, guys.  I tried that early on to no avail but this time I went to an earlier restore date and it's alive.  Woo Hoo!

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General Mach Discussion / I killed my Mach 3...

« on: December 20, 2008, 03:43:08 PM »

Sitting around bored the other night I decided to 'clean out' my computer of (what I thought was) junk. 

When I tried to open Mach to play with my mill I kept getting an application error... the little one that asks you to send a message to Microsoft.  I've gone so far as to download Mach again.  It says it has found the license, etc. and then I reboot... same message... no Mach.  I also copied the Mach3 folder over from my laptop and the same thing...  It opens and operates on the laptop (doesn't run the mill from the laptop per usual reasons).

Do I drive the wooden stake through the hard drive now or after I plug it into a 220v outlet and douse it with salt water?

Any help is much appreciated.  Mind you,  I'm not terribly computer savvy unless you want things randomly erased.

Cheers,
Sweeney

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General Mach Discussion / Re: z-axis takes a vacation...

« on: January 20, 2008, 02:06:48 PM »

C'mon, wheres the sport in that?!   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: z-axis takes a vacation...

« on: January 20, 2008, 01:39:16 PM »

I think there's a suspect connection on the computer's port... cracked solder joint or similar.  I tried my printer and it didn't work either (different cable).  After a little jostling of the terminal I got it to work.  I'll have to dig into it.

Thanks for the reply, Hood!

Cheers,

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General Mach Discussion / z-axis takes a vacation...

« on: January 20, 2008, 09:12:22 AM »

On occasion when I fire up the system I have no control of the z-axis stepper... like now.  Sometimes a restart of the computer brings it back, other times it doesn't.  The motor is fine.  Any clues?