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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 06:37:29 PM »

I dont think its actualy crashed., i think its just lost communication with the SS for some reason or ss has stopped responding . When the system freezes I can walk to the back of the machine , unplug the USB from the SS board and then navigate thru mach, hit the estop , etc , all the onscreen buttons then work and I can access all menus.

Once it crashes it will stay frozen until I either force it to close or unplug the USB

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 06:11:47 PM »

yes thats it right now , with Mach frozen, spindle slowly turning

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 05:41:49 PM »

Only brain is for the oiler , cpu usage shows 2%

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 05:29:07 PM »

Ran about 20 seconds this time, I was just manualy jogging with spindle on  . Hourglass cursor is up , spindle is turning around 80 rpms . Estop button, cycle start , pause have no effect. Cant click anything in mach either .

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 05:24:05 PM »

Totaly unresponsive, The hour glass pops up as the pointer and nothing can be clicked, estop does nothing. Its as if its lost comm with the smooth stepper and its waiting .

Forcing Mach to close leaves the spindle turning and coolant on , juast as it was when the program locks. I can then walk to the back of the machine and unplug the SS and the spindle and coolant will stop.

After it locks and I close mach I have to unplug and replug the SS board before Mach will connect with it again.

I have moved all the plugins other than SS to a temp folder , will run it the rest of the day and see what happens

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 04:00:52 PM »

Just one , its the latest one from the warp site

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 03:51:36 PM »

cant do anything in mach when the problem occurs

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 23, 2009, 03:45:43 PM »

I hooked up an external 5v supply to the ss and set the jumper but I still keep having a problem every 5 minutes to 1 hour where my spindle speed drops to 78 rpm and mach freezes completley. I can open device manager and SS is still present under USB but Mach will not respond.
I can force mach to close and i get the error reporting pop up , below is what it says

szAppName : Mach3.exe     szAppVer : 1.0.0.1     szModName : hungapp     
szModVer : 0.0.0.0     offset : 00000000 


When I click the more details box I get the message below

C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER92ee.dir00\Mach3.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER92ee.dir00\appcompat.txt

When I force mach to close and then reopen it I get the error message stating that SS is not connected , to close mach , unplug and replug usb to SS and restart Mach.

Any thoughts on whats going on?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 22, 2009, 09:54:47 PM »

got about 4 hours before lost comm with SS after unchecking power management in device manager. I will pull a clean 5v from the power supply in the morning and give it a 10+ hour work out

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems threading on the lathe

« on: May 22, 2009, 06:21:07 PM »

YEP , that was it , silly power management. Thanks guys