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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help needed, limit swtch trip when turn on spindel

« on: July 09, 2018, 08:49:40 PM »

All the wire on the limit switches are shielded
and the limit switches are just micro switches

I am looking up the RC low pass filters right now


 

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General Mach Discussion / Help needed, limit swtch trip when turn on spindel

« on: July 09, 2018, 07:58:54 PM »

Hello every one, I am stuck here

I got my machine all wired up, all with shielded wire
Machine seams to work fine until you turn on spindle and it trips a limit stop ( what ones? i don't know )
I took the power wire for the spindle out, to get it away from the rest and it did not really help much,
when you run the spindle at 1/2 rpm the machine runs but runs like carp very slow to respond at the keyboard strokes

Using 2 parallel port cards one on board that drive the steppers and the other for everything else

I am really stuck been on this for days
Thanks in advance 
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Best Mach 4 I/O Borad ?????

« on: July 06, 2018, 10:46:38 PM »

Hi,

Also is Mach 4 that much better then Mach 3 ??

In one sense they are very similar...they both control CNC machines to makes parts.
If you wish to cutomise your machine thats where Mach4 shines.

Mach4 is still being developed whereas Mach3 is not, eventually Mach3 will probably no longer work with current PC's
on OS's. You may have noted that various MS updates have given Mach3 users some grief recently, it hasn't stopped
Mach3 but it may do one day.

Craig

I got a couple old windows xp machines to run mach 3 it run grate
I will probably get a copy of mach 4
I was planing on using 2 monitors i have one with the DRO etc.. and i have a touch screen i would use for all the buttons etc..
i guess Mach 4 would be better for that

Thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Best Mach 4 I/O Borad ?????

« on: July 05, 2018, 10:33:06 PM »

I been looking at all the choices they all look pretty good
The HiCON Integra - 6-Axis looks very nice but it looks like you have to pay to unlock some of it features, i think that is a money grab the board fully unlocked will cost over 3000$
I know them guys work hard and takes lost of time to developed a board like that

The PoKeys57CNC looks pretty good, looks like you can do all kinds of things with it, lots of add on do dad's pretty cool but that one looks complicated

The PMDX-422 looks pretty good too, looks pretty easy to setup and it got a few add on boards etc..

The SmoothStepper looks like a good bang for your buck

I think i am going to get a PMDX-422 or a PoKeys57CNC not sure yet.

Also is Mach 4 that much better then Mach 3 ??

Thanks

   

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Mach4 General Discussion / Best Mach 4 I/O Borad ?????

« on: July 05, 2018, 12:11:31 AM »

Hello everyone

Looking to upgrade to Mach 4 and would like to get a better I/0 card
What is the best I/O card out there, I would like lots of inputs and outputs for future features etc...


Thanks