Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
I finally got a smooth stepper for my mill after 7 years. Finally got the axis working thanks to John's help over New Years weekend! I have no control of my spindle now. I spent the whole weekend messing around with settings and only managed to get the spindle to either go 100 RPM or 4000 Rpm. Does anyone that has a smooth stepper (ethernet) on their Novakon have any tricks or tip for settings? Also, I still have the momentary stop of movement from line to line as I was hoping to do away with by upgrading to the ESS.
Re: Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
First, get the ESS installation manual from Novakon. It details every single setting to get everything working as it should.
Second, if you are getting a stop between each line of g-code, you are almost certainly set for exact stop mode, which has nothing to do with the ESS. In Mach3, go to Config->GeneralConfig->MotionMode, and set it to Constant Velocity.
Regards,
Ray L.
Re: Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
Thanks for the reply Ray. John from Novakon gave me the install manual and followed that to the T and I have my settings to constant velocity. Do I need a new XML file or should my existing one be working fine or do i need to modify it?
Re: Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
The XML files in Mach3 do sometimes get clobbered in a way that they cannot be corrected, but must be either replaced with a good one, or reconfigured from scratch. Just one of the many joys of Mach3. I'd suggest getting a good XML from someone with identical hardware, or as close as you can get.
John should be able to e-mail you one that should work.
Regards,
Ray L.
Re: Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
I have sent Dane a copy of my XML. We both purchased our mills at the same time.
Re: Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
sorry to dig this one up any chance one of you guys could send me the NM-200 ESS XML file too? Thanks in advance
Re: Smooth Stepper on Novakon NM-200
kvom - I just purchased a lightly used NM200 R2 with ESS that had some electrical issues, and a pile of test .xml files the previous owner created/saved while debugging. If you had/have the same machine as mine, could I get a copy of the Mach23 configuration from you?
Thanks,
Rick
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Mine doesn't have an ESS, but I've attached XML file.
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