I'm about ready to take a big hammer to my mill.....
I'm about at the end of my rope. I've been plagued for many months with flaky behavior - spontaneous changes in fixture offsets, and other equally unpleasant random events. These are real, verifiable bugs in Mach3 and/or the SmoothStepper. I've been working with Brian and Greg off and on for months, tracking down and fixing one issue after another, but the last few issues are still eluding us. At this point, I've installed so many different special debug versions of Mach3 and the SS and ESS plug-ins, I don't even know what I have any more. Today, I decided to try something drastic, in the hopes of restoring some semblence of sanity to things - I decided to wipe the existing install, and start over from scratch. So, I spent about a half hour writing down every single setting, moved the old install aside, did a fresh install of the latest Dev release, and the latest ESS plug-in, then manually re-entered all the configuration settings. When I got done, things are actually worse!
Now I can't get the spindle to come on at all. With all the same settings, the PWM seems to come on, but the FWD/REV relays don't seem to be working. Even stranger, the Z axis moves backwards! I have to flip the polarity of the DIR to make it work correctly! If I use the XML from the old install, all is well. How is this even possible???
The two XMLs are attached. There will be some minor differences, as the old one has a lot of "cruft" in it, which I've tried to remove. But all the settings that are actually needed are, at least visually in the GUI, identical, unless I'm completely losing my mind (which, at this point, should not be ruled out....).
Regards,
Ray L.