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Wilson Logan
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#153785
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Re: Spindle Speed Controllers
Hi John, It's not that they are discontinued, just that I'm behind in manufacturing. :( As you would know, you need to use a rail to rail opamp to get as close to the rails as possible. 0.2V is about
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Peter Homann
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#153784
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Spindle Speed Controllers
I see that Peter Homann's web site lists his Digispeed controllers as sold out. https://www.homanndesigns.com/ I have one of the DC-06 controllers for step/dir but want to use a PWM to 0-10V control.
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John Dammeyer
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#153783
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Mach4 lathe & pokeys - Quadature Encoder Setup
I'm using a CNC4PC M16D board and I'm confused on now to set up the AMT103 encoder and the correct pokeys assigned pins. I'm getting very clean A, B & Index pulses from the Encoder but only see True
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Bob Pratl
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#153782
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
Any faults on older systems are hardware or operator related, mostly the latter.? See http://www.helmancnc.com/fanuc-cnc-controls-naming-conventions/
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Steve Blackmore <steve@...>
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#153781
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
Hmm. My comments didn't stand out like I thought they would. I'll highlight them now by removing the '>' See below.
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John Dammeyer
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#153780
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
See below. Sent: September-23-19 7:26 PM To: mach1mach2cnc@... Subject: RE: [mach1mach2cnc] Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC A few points of clarification: Again, I have no personal
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John Dammeyer
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#153779
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
A few points of clarification: Again, I have no personal knowledge of FANUC products but I find it very hard to believe that there are no unsquashed bugs even after years of usage. I¡¯m curious
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Ken Strauss
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#153778
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
Fanuc 21 firmware has been out since 2010 ish - any was just a development due to hardware changes of software/firmware that had been out for many years.? Bugs were eradicated years ago and there has
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Steve Blackmore <steve@...>
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#153777
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
I have no experience with Fanuc 21 controllers but I¡¯ve never encountered any bug free software after over fifty years of computer usage. Congratulations! I¡¯m sure that you understand why Tormach
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Ken Strauss
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#153776
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
John Stevenson and I did look at Pathpilot when it first came out. At the same time we obtained a couple of stand alone panel mounted clone Fanuc 21 style lathe controllers. It took me little longer
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Steve Blackmore <steve@...>
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#153775
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
You didn¡¯t include details of your problem but I suspect that a fix didn¡¯t require changes to the code but merely a small tweak to the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) file that defines how
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Ken Strauss
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#153774
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
I used Mach3 for several years on my Tormach PCNC770. When Tormach released PathPilot (which is mostly LinuxCNC) 3 years ago I converted. There is absolutely no comparison between the two types of
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Ken Strauss
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#153773
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
I too had run EMC for a while but I ran into a problem with one of the inputs/outputs that was opposite of what a G540 could use. I went on the EMC forum and posted my problem. I mentioned that it was
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Dan Mauch
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#153772
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Re: Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
Hi John - It's some years ago now but I gave it a good test but gave up. I'm not a programmer or software developer or any other sort of guru so failed to get it to work reliably. Unless you know
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Steve Blackmore <steve@...>
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#153771
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Returning to MACH3/4 from LinuxCNC
Anyone on this group who tried LinuxCNC for a while and then returned to using MACHx? If so, could you list the reasons why? Thanks John
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John Dammeyer
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#153770
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Mach1 User Manual
Hi Folks, Do anyone have User Manual for this obsolete program? Or any manual? I'll appreciate a lot to get it on my email mrpeja
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mr_peja
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#153769
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Re: Mach3 Automatically reboots my PC
Yes I am running win 7 32 bits. So I have tried restoring the pc to an earlier date 7-24-19 hoping that would fix the issue. But it didn't. . I went ahead and installed the version of mach3 with the
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Dan Mauch
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#153768
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Re: Mach3 Automatically reboots my PC
I see that you said you had a 32 bit CPU. Does that mean that you are running a 32 bit version of Windows7? The parallel port will definitely not run with a 64 bit OS.
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Steve Stallings
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#153767
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Re: Mach3 Automatically reboots my PC
No joy! It works fine with the UC100 but reboots with the parallel port. Dan
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Dan Mauch
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#153766
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