motion master conversion

[Xerxes]

I believe you can quite easily tune drive not to fault in the first place.

However, when VSDEPI & Mach3 are configured according to VSDEPI manual, un-toggling the blinking e-stop button in Mach will clear also drive faults.

[Montabelli]

OK, so I'm an idiot... I went back over my original set up and found my logic fault. it was the e-stop set up. every thing is behaving properly now. I knew it would be something simple, that at one time I had misconstrued.

I still have a few things to do to get this thing ready to go into production. spindle, lube system, limits and home switches. once I get all that arranged, I'll shoot some video of the machine under power. thanks for all your help.

[Montabelli]

YouTube- VID 00000-20100409-1054.3GP
here is a preliminary video of the motion master, I have it running pretty slow, and the flashing light in the cabinet is the driver for the 4th axis which I have to build yet, I still need to find a way to reduce jerk in the motion, and still be able to run smoothly through a lot of short segment code in 4 axis motion but two d works great.

[Xerxes]

Nice video! Thank you.

How fast are the rapids?

[Montabelli]

I think the rapids are set at about 8000mm/min, I haven't really pushed it too hard yet I was cutting the pocket in the video at 2500mm/min, I have cut air at 4000mm/min in 2d tool paths but I am going to need fairly fast machining of 3d and 4 axis production cutting pretty soon.

I have ordered an analog output interface that I am going to implement because I need better smoothing than is currently available in 4x in Mach3. and I haven't been able to come up with a way to make it happen with mastercam and helical tool paths. I have worked with techn isel controllers for a long time and I have also worked with the old DOS version of wincnc either on costs me about the same money, but I have my operator set with the techno and this way I have only one interface on all my machines except my wood lathe. I will probably move mach3 to that

[Montabelli]

Xerxes,
Can I run an analog interface through the vsdepi card ? it will already provide a single source for relays, enable switching etc, I would assume that it should work easily enough to wire the analog control through pins 15 & 16. What do you think?

[Xerxes]

Originally Posted by Montabelli Xerxes, Can I run an analog interface through the vsdepi card ? it will already provide a single source for relays, enable switching etc, I would assume that it should work easily enough to wire the analog control through pins 15 & 16. What do you think?

You probably need to forget VSDEPI for analog control and also configure I/O pins of drive differently from GDtool.

This is because VSDEPI uses analog input pin as drive disable/enable control.

[Montabelli]

YouTube- motionmmach3tempst.3GP
this is a video of some actual production of parts, probably too long, running motion master at 3.5 m/min rapids 8m/min 15 deg ramp entrance pcd tool 18000 rpm cutting 3/4" mdf using mach3 tempest planner, smooth stepper and of course vsd xe drives running fanuc ac servos with encoder count only (no hall effect), 1k steps /mm resolution.
Xerxes, your products are amazing!

Thanks

[Xerxes]

Very nice, thanks for the video! I'm glad you are satisfied to the result :-)