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General Mach Discussion / Re: CAUTION! User LED's Turn on with opening wizards

« on: February 20, 2013, 02:42:15 AM »

Hi Hood,

Mach version .062.

Simple Threading Wizard. Normally, unless you installed additional ones, there are only two in the list - Simple Threadin and Turning. I probably should have checked the Turning one as well, but I didn't. I reckon it would be the same with that one as well.

LED numbers 1003 and 1005.

In the mean time we added a safety feature - a hardware button that goes directly to the PLC and the PLC would wait for both that button and signal from Mach to start homing. Don't think we would revert this and use merely the signal from Mach as we can't trust it anymore after seeing this happen. Who knows what else could then trigger those LED's. What if it would happen with a boring bar inside a part!

Very, very strange and scary!

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / CAUTION! User LED's Turn on with opening wizards

« on: February 19, 2013, 02:15:12 PM »

Witnessed a very strange behaviour today - a potential cause for a disaster! It's on a lathe which does homing internally in the drives and sends back a command that it finished. To send a command to the drives to start homing we used User LED's in Mach which we turn on in the homing buttons and a simple Brain sends the LEDs state to the drives. LED ON -> Send command to drive -> Start Homing -> LED OFF.

Want happened today was the LED's going high when opening the wizards from the top menu, selecting threading wizard and clicking OK. As soon as OK is clicked, LED's go high and drives start homing. This is repeatable and happens each time exactly in the same way. How does it happen?! How is it that simple to UNINTENTIONALLY change the state of LED's?!

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: February 17, 2013, 10:36:32 AM »

That's nice Tweakie. I am picturing a lot of mess after dealing with the toner

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Chiron FZ12 on its way sometime soon(ish)

« on: February 15, 2013, 03:14:14 PM »

He...he.. to keep an eye out on eBay, the least that's required is knowing what you're looking for - I didn't know the above brand up until a few hours ago

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Chiron FZ12 on its way sometime soon(ish)

« on: February 15, 2013, 12:22:39 PM »

Love your tool setter patent, Hood. Should consider doing one. Really looks very convenient.

The servos look new indeed. But hey, how do you manage to get all those great deals...

Dan

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Laser Cut Frame CNC Router New build

« on: February 14, 2013, 07:45:54 AM »

Absolutely love the design, John. An engineering art. Thanks for sharing. Just excellent!

Dan

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Brains Development / Re: Can't Read PLC from a Brain

« on: February 10, 2013, 02:25:37 PM »

Problem solved. Was wrong communication settings in the PLC.

Thanks,
Dan

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Brains Development / Re: Can't Read PLC from a Brain

« on: February 10, 2013, 12:57:17 PM »

Strange thing is that I am able to read outputs from the VFD using same Brain. Then why it wouldn't read from the PLC? Again, what's most strange is that I can read the PLC inputs using the Test window in Mach3. Only doesn't work fro a Brain.

Dan

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Success! Mini Machining Center under Mach3 control - Video link

« on: February 10, 2013, 03:30:25 AM »

An Atmel processor (on an Arduino MEGA development board) is used for data acquisition only and the data (sensor reads) that is collected on each run is sent over a serial connection to a program on the PC for the calculations.

Is it a commercial program or some code of your own?

Dan

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Share Your GCode / Re: How to speed up simple G Code

« on: February 09, 2013, 11:45:39 AM »

Hi
I tried the M11P1 and E1P0 commands in every way I could think of-No luck
I guess thr SS doesn't recognize it - Bo Ho
Can you help me with the Dir output from a Phantom axis - I could use A,B and C

Thanks again
Jack

Hi Jack,

Download the latest SS plugin. Support for M11P/M10P has been added.

Dan