I can't seem to get it. I clicked into everything and saved after, reloaded brains in Mach, still get the error. Why do I need to rewrite a brain for it to work? If, for example, CNC4PC can post up a brain that works, why not these? Can someone post up a working version of Hood's brains or at least explain why it won't work without 'rewriting' it?

Edit: OK, I completely did it from scratch and now it loads without the error. And.......I SORT OF learned how to write brains!! Still a mystery why one can't post up a brain and have it work on another system.

Only thing I can think of is maybe I wrote these with a different version of the exe than you have installed. I certainly havent had any problems with it as I wrote them at home and then emailed them to the workshop.
Hood

OH, maybe that's it. My Mach3Lobe.exe is dated 1/24/2008 and is 464 KB in size. I have Mach3 3.043.027 on all three computers I tried it on. Does this mean that when upgrading Mach that brains might stop working?

It worked out better now that I did it from scratch anyway as I learned a bit and am now more confident editing them!!

BTW, thanks for the inspiration with your pendant writeup. I didn't do a pendant, but pretty much the same thing minus the MPG on a small panel on the machine proper. I'm used to running machines from a panel after years of doing so, and am real used to a feed pot, so now I have one and one that works better than the machines I used to run because of the brains!! Now I need Greg to get SS updated to more than 100% feed rate and I'll be good! Back to fine tuning feed/speed by sound/chip flow!!

Just had someone else PM me with the same problem, I wondered if renaming the Brain would help and it did, so if anyone runs accross this rename making sure there are no spaces in the name.
Hood

Hi Hood,

Thanks for sharing your experience!

Where does the formula for analogue inputs, you mention in the word doc, come from? What if I wanted a max override of 200%?

Thanks,
Daniel

Daniel
 See here for an explanation.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,9011.msg58891.html#msg58891

basically 1024/200 will give you the number you want.

Hood

Ohh... and why do you use Modbus inputs in the SRO brain? Is there a document out there explaining how to create such brains? The video tutorial doesn't seem to be enough.

Daniel

Art mapped the analogue inputs of the Pokeys to the same ones that the G100 uses if I remember correctly. Should be some info here if you do an advanced search for G100 and user name Art in the Pokeys section.
Hood

OK, thank you Hood. Found the relevant post. Here is the link to whoever is interested:

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,9163.10.html

Daniel

Hood,

Why did you use a brain for the start, stop and hold buttons - isn't it possible to use hotkeys and make PoKeys emulate them?

Also, what are the numeric values of the analogue inputs corresponding to the max voltage and min voltage? Just don't yet understand the above formula completely.

Daniel