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Can anyone help? I have 2 servo drives that need 0v common for the step/direction & 1 that wants +5v common. My breakout board (C11t) will do either, but not mixed. I can get all three working by...

Did you fit the Dugong drives? How did you get on with them?

Hi Larry,
sorry I've been away from work & only just had a chance to fit the drives.
I'll post the old drives back this week.
Thanks for your help
Tim.

I am also experiencing random e-stops, sometimes when it stops for a tool change. When I check the drives there is no fault showing.
As this machine has been running well for 2 years on Gecko...

Yes the drives are working, but I have the fault line as an e stop, which means if I go near my current limit I get a 3 flash fault, which estops my machine.

Larry,
will you please get back to me?

Tried to reply to your pm, got this error:

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My reply to your pm...

Sorry I forgot to answer about the voltage.
If I put my meter accross the 5v & stop out pins I get 0.4v. It doesn't change if there is a fault output or not.

I have connected the LED & resistor accross the 5v & the stop out pin and it doesn't glow.
I am at the point where I can run the machine, but have no way of telling if a drive faults out. I may use...

Hi Larry,
I have 5v on the middle pin of the 3, I can't measure anything on the stop out pin & I can't detect any change of state.
If I connect an LED across the same as the flash output, I don't...

I'm trying to get the fault output to work on my Viper 200's.
I can get the remote flashing LED to work, but nothing from the "stop out" connection. I need this to tell Mach 3 that there is a drive...

Is this still happening? Got lots of Fanuc motors from robots so would be really interested in a drive to use them

I'm trying to set up my new Viper 200's, there's a couple of things I don't understand.
I think I've set the PID values according to the manual, but even though the motor is holding & not...

Is that why you're called Al the Man?
Many thanks, there's a beer for you here next time you're in the Uk :-)

Thanks Al,
I'd just searched and read some similar threads,
don't suppose you could tell me what spec bridge rectifier and electrolytic capacitors, or could point me to a calculator?

Can anybody help me with a drawing or some advice?
I am hoping to use 3 Viper 200's with 3 DC Brush SEM servos from a Bridgeport (145v, pulse Amps 32, stall torque 3.2Nm, 2500rpm)
I need to build...

Can anybody help with a problem with our table?
We want to adjust the Gib strip on the X axis but it doesn't appear to have any.
There are grub screws on the front and back of the table but we're...

Look in Mach 3, Config (menu top left) General config.. around the middle of the window you will see IJ mode, try changing it to incremental if it's already in absolute (or vice versa)

Really impressed with the Lithophanes Caprirs, I'd like to see the gallery you posted, but it's asking for a password

I'm having a great time playing with Aspire (supposed to be working lol)
Can anybody tell me how to add more textures? (as in vtextures)

Cloud Chaser, do you have Buck's details, I'd be very interested to contact him

Hi Todd,
how are you getting on with the conversion?
I'm looking to go down the servo route with a series 2 so any advice would be greatly appreciated
Tim.

I'm having problems with importing an autocad drawing.
I set the UCS (X,Y,Z 0) to the top right corner in the Autocad drawing, but when I open it in Bobcad it's in a different place.
So I think,...

Hi Dave,
If you haven't ripped too much of the guts out of it, you could have a simple conversion.
We recently converted a series 2 Bridgeport with a board from Hillbilly, you can contact them here...

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!
we haven't tried that yet, we're flying blind here.
We both have lots of other duties and are trying to fit this CNC thing in between everything else. I'll go try...

Can anybody help with 3D files in V23, we're pulling our hair out!
I draw in Inventor and my colleague uses Autocad, so we save files in IGES, STEP and DWG.
We're mainly having problems with holes,...

"I noticed in the screen shot that your "line lookahead" was only 10, try changing to 100 or more"

Hi Mike, playing with settings myself, where do you change the "line Lokahead"
Tim

I have a Conect mill & Lathe, I got the mill converted by a guy in Luton who built a lot of the controllers for Conect when they were in business. Conquerer design & engineering, his names Alex....