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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Help! Hardinge CHNC Retrofit
« on: July 21, 2007, 09:13:38 AM »
Hi, This pdf file of the HEDS encoders may help.



Regards

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help
« on: July 12, 2007, 06:56:21 PM »
Hi, Looking at the motor spec you will have to connect the phases in series as you driver can only supply a max current of 2.5 amps. Therefore connect A' and C' together and insulate, connect A and C to the A and A# on the driver board. Connect B' and D' together, insulate and connect B and D to the B and B# on the driver board. If the motor does not run sweet swap the wires B and D on the driver board.




Kind Regards

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General Mach Discussion / Re: AARRGGHH
« on: June 15, 2007, 11:54:47 AM »
Hi Guys, I've had a better day today. Taking time from work to sort the problems out.

Thanks Kris for your help, it helped my train of thought a lot.  ???

The stepper breaking from steps in rapid move in only one part of the program turned out to be a problem with the Mach pulse engine driver.

As the fog of a bad day clears I remember that the computer crashed during a Mach session so it is possible it corrupted the driver.

After reloading the driver a couple of times it now works perfect.

Ugrading to the lastest software update caught me by suprise with the new enhancements. The problem with the toolpath displaying black material on a black screen turned out to be a setting in Config/Toolpath. The material color was set to red=0 green=0.1 blue=0.1. Setting them all to 1 sorted that problem.

I fiddled with the softlimits and got them to work as I never had them configured before. The limits work with Machine Coordinates as they should but had me confused when setting them looking at the screen which was displaying Program Coords. Duh...  ::)

As I've been jogging up and down, the whole system seems to be a lot smoother so I tweaked the rapid speed up a bit and no stepper break away.

I can now put my feet up for the rest of the day, work tomorrow  ;D


Thanks guys


Cheers

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General Mach Discussion / AARRGGHH
« on: June 13, 2007, 02:49:14 PM »
Hi Guys, I had a bad day today so take any comments light-heartedly.

I've been running my usual program on the lathe as I have done for about a year now and in the past sometimes I get a stepper glitch in X and lose steps.
To-day it has done it every time I run the program. If I go into manual mode and run the axis forwards and backwards I cannot make it lose any steps or get a break away.

So load the program again and guess what same break-away same bit of code. Going from G0x50 to G0x16 so there's strange code problems just going from one place to another in rapid.

G1 X17 Z-6.2003
G0 X50           
M09
M06 T0303
M08
G0 X16            (Get break-away here)
G0 Z-11.50     

Yes I guess I could slow the axis down until It stops doing it, but why if I go into manual and do the same thing at the same speed it's ok?


So thinking that perhaps an update of the software may do the trick I have loaded the most recent version.

Immediatly I noticed a few CHANGES!!  The tool-path window is in black as always but now my part is displayed in black also. I thought perhaps it is just the screen-settings on this computer but no, I've loaded it on my other computer and it is the same there. Who thought of that I asked myself, why isn't there a warning screen on load-up saying some mad screen designer has been at work! A black part on a black screen, well I never!

How can I change it back. Iv'e scanned the help files but to no avail. Hasn't anyone noticed this or has it only happened to me?

After closing the program down I noticed the new icons. Well they look like grey house-bricks so I'll have to change them back as well.

Right I've had my rant and I feel better but can anyone help with above problems.

Kind Regards

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Waa- Far F**king out. I have just realised I posted the previous post using IE6.

So if any one else ever has this problem then download another browser and that sorts it out.


Cheers Scott, must of been telepathic or something, Job done.   ;D



Regards

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Hi Scott, Yes I think your're right, I can rememer doing a clean up a few weeks ago which deletes all the cookies. I cant see why that would cause the problem and I still have no idea how to fix it, perhaps in future I'll have to be more selective as I dont want the same thing happenning to Firefox.

I did a search to find out how to cure it but nowadays all you get back are pages trying to sell you something.

I was a bit suspicious of using another browser with all the Google spy stuff attached to it but I've managed to disable the toolbar and I quite like the layout of Firefox so I might stick with it.

Cheers

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Hi, a-ha! I've side stepped the problem by downloading Motzilla Firefox and using that. So I'm back on-line and the wife's happy as she has her computer back.  ;D

I'd still like to know what the problem is as it may be of help to someone else.   ???

Regards All

Cheers

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Hi Scott, Thanks for the reply. No those buttons are not available. Heres the run down of what i'm getting.

Log-in, I get the index page. it says i'm logged in and there's a log out button at the top.
If I go to any other page on the site i'm logged out and i'm asked to log-in. I log back in and then I'm back to the index page which say's I'm logged in. Ad infinitum.

I've tried logging out then logging in, seems to work fine if i stay on the index page. If I move to another page I'm logged out, if i move back to the index i'm logged out.

Also I've noticed that even when i've logged out, the green light that say's i'm online is always on.

I've tried reinstalling IE6. didn't make a difference. I've also noticed that even when I logout on this computer the green "on-line" indicator is still lit-up.

I know it is a problem with my computer as I'm using the wifes computer at present to post this.

Any idea's.

Kind Regards

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Hi, I havn't logged in for a while due to work and I tryed to log in yesterday and I found I could login to the index page of the forum but when clicking to any other page I seemed to be logged out (the page says welcome guest at the top). I saw this post and set my browser to accept any cookies from artsoft website, this has no effect. When browsing to any posts I have made the green light says I'm online but I can't post anything. My browser is IE6 running on Win2k.
Could you please enlighten me as to what the problem might be so the wife can have her computer back as I'm spending too much time hogging it at present because of this problem.

Kind Regards

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Competitions / Re: ******Guess and win a G100 Grex******
« on: May 24, 2007, 05:18:29 AM »
Hi, Still cant work out how to edit my guess but I'll change it to:

2,347,286 chips

good luck to all

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