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General Mach Discussion / Re: Filpping the direction of the x-axis all by itself

« on: July 17, 2011, 11:13:48 AM »

It's version R3.043.022 that is current on your site.

It doesn't always happen on some bad code. I don't always notice exactly when it happens, but I'll try
to make notes on what I was doing when it does.

Thanks for that, and just a note, it's not "my site", I just help with cleaning up the "junk" around here when I can 

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Filpping the direction of the x-axis all by itself

« on: July 17, 2011, 06:16:59 AM »

May I ask what version of Mach 3 you're using?

Thank you,
Dave

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Tangent Corner / Re: pdf dxl files

« on: July 17, 2011, 06:09:25 AM »

Mikee,

If you have Windows XP, there's a built in zip extractor. When you download the file, and click on it to open it, when it opens, on the left it should say "extract all files". Click on that and it should open them up for you.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: limit swithes

« on: July 13, 2011, 05:53:04 PM »

Hi Mikee,

You can actually wire up all homing switches in series to one (1) input, and mach will know what to do with the order of homing. Z axis, X axis, then Y Axis will follow. The sheilding needs to be grounded only at the control box. The other end is left  undone as not to create ground loop issues.

You really wouldn't even need mechanical limit switches as the soft limits that are in Mach 3 work great.

This is a great help at times, have a look at page 11  ftp://machsupport.com/Docs/Mach3%20Setup%20Tutorial.pdf

Hope that helps,
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: How to- USB powered LCD display of DRO`s

« on: July 13, 2011, 12:40:41 PM »

Sorry, no, that's the front side bus, it's a 2.8Ghz

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: How to- USB powered LCD display of DRO`s

« on: July 13, 2011, 12:31:21 PM »

Out of couriousity DAVE what computer specs are you running?

(;-) TP

Hi Terry,

It's an Intel MOBO with a P4 (800Mhz front side bus) and 1 gig RAM. Win XP sp2 with 32MB ATI Rage video card. This is for machine use only.

Thanks,
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: How to- USB powered LCD display of DRO`s

« on: July 13, 2011, 10:53:13 AM »

Yep, a bit better but still a little sluggish for sure. Thanks for all your help Ian, I guess you've helped me figure out here that version 3.039 is not very macropump friendly.

Guess I'll be looking to update my system to a newer version when I get some open time and can be sure it'll run smoothly.

Thank you (and everyone else) as always 
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Screen Question.

« on: July 12, 2011, 07:14:58 PM »

Had a look at this as well with some of my code and it does not flash for me.

It's listed as OEM code 804 which is "Start LED"

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: How to- USB powered LCD display of DRO`s

« on: July 12, 2011, 05:27:49 PM »

Yes, the LCD screen is indeed filled with rapidly changing numbers,  BUT, now Mach is crawling and painfully slow. What I mean is, in the status bar, where it normally says Press Reset, it moves VERY VERY slow, as in it takes almost 30 seconds to scroll to the left one place. I can also load a Gcode fairly quickly but again, any actions like zeroing the DRO's is super slow. They also take about 30 seconds to zero after I hit the "zero" button. Rewind, regen all act the same way as well.

Dave

EDIT: I also tried different screen sets with no difference.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: How to- USB powered LCD display of DRO`s

« on: July 12, 2011, 03:42:43 PM »

Yes, and yes, the random numbers just kept changing very rapidly in the status line. I was able to use Mach as normal, no issues.