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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #70 on: November 03, 2012, 01:31:36 PM »
will pm you file

um short, could you tweak my code so i can see what you mean?

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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #71 on: November 03, 2012, 01:41:21 PM »
m3 s1000

g00 x20 y0
g00 z3

G95
G1 Z-10 F0.5
G0Z-2      <..........You will need to read the PDF that was attached earlier to see the distanbce required, I was thinking it was 8mm
G1 Z5
G94

m5
m30
Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #72 on: November 03, 2012, 01:44:04 PM »
ah right so a fast up then a slow retract

might have missed the pdf will go look
Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #73 on: November 03, 2012, 01:53:19 PM »
um yes it seems to say retract as fast as you can

Retract Tapping
head at 13,000 mm/
min or 500 in/min,
specified distance
for specific tapping
head to reverse tap
rotation.

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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #74 on: November 03, 2012, 02:37:30 PM »
You have a max speed of 1m/min so just do a G0 and that will assure its at the fastest speed you can do.
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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #75 on: November 03, 2012, 03:13:22 PM »
Are you still using the power supply to power the opto?
Try using your computers 5v and see if its better, you can grab the 5v from either a USB or a spare molex connector, if using the molex then 5v is red and black is 0v.
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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #76 on: November 03, 2012, 03:54:11 PM »
yes im using a proper bench psu at the moment to supply the 5v

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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #77 on: November 03, 2012, 03:59:26 PM »
Have you tied the 0V of the bench supply to the 0V of the parallel port?
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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #78 on: November 03, 2012, 04:00:24 PM »
nope, but guessing i should be

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Re: Mach3 and Tapmatic Tapping Head
« Reply #79 on: November 03, 2012, 04:04:40 PM »
You may not get a correct signal if you dont as your bench supply may be at a different potential than your computers supply.
I would however think you would get erroneous signals at all speeds if that was the problem though.
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