Mach2 and Rutex

[ynneb]

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[turmite]

Well done ynneb!

Mike

Bloy I am a brother and remember all too well the fights we had. Nothing good ever came from them.

[CNCadmin]

If art needs help to set-up a site, I'd be more than happy to help him. Pass it on-

[HomeCNC]

Ynneb,

Back to your problem of not getting the motors spinning. If you read my Mach 2 review you will see that I said Mach 2 is NOT easy to setup. I am a computer and software expert for CAD/CAM. I could not get things working at first as well. I happen to catch Art at home one evening and between about 8-10 emails back and forth I got it working. This was before the manual was out.

If you can't get personal help from Art you will need to study the manual very slowly in the area of setting up the pins in the configure screens. I have a complete screen capture of my setups screen that I have zipped and sent to people who were having trouble. Maybe it will help you as well I will see if I can attached it here. Well my zip file is too large. it's 590 K. I will see if I can upload it to the files section.

[HomeCNC]

I placed the file in the "free / Demo" area.

[ynneb]

Thanks Jeff, I will download it now.
Oh and thanks for going to the effort of doing the screen capture.

[ynneb]

Hey Jeff, I downloaded your screen capture, and tried to enter your settings as an experiment. I noticed that my version of mach2 had a few slight variations from your scren capture.

Anyhow after entering all the settings the same as yours I then discovered that you can just copy and paste the XML document in the mach 2 folder that relates to your profile. I was wondering just for experimentation purpose if you could also post that, or email it to me at ynneb@ozemail.com.au .
It will be about 20k in size and will automatically enter all your setting in one go. Did you know you could do this?

I have had much better success now but still was thinking the drive speed was too slow especially if I am going to gear the servos down 10:1.

EDIT: I am slowly reading the manual. I think a bit of fidling with the settings and a bit of reading and Ill get there.

[HomeCNC]

Anyhow after entering all the settings the same as yours I then discovered that you can just copy and paste the XML document in the mach 2 folder that relates to your profile. I was wondering just for experimentation purpose if you could also post that, or email it to me at ynneb@ozemail.com.au .

No I did not know this. I have never looked inside the Mach 2 directory. I am using an older copy and I know I should update it but I just have not had the time.

I'm thinking that maybe sending my older version of XML would not be a good idea.

[ynneb]

Ah Jeff, I am a experimenter, It wont wreck anything, It might be handy to know if it works. Im happy to give it a go. After all the xml document is just a glorified html document. Hey if you want to be a servo king you need to know if these sorts of things will work.