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Lee sent the modified plugin, and all has been well for several days now. I hope it stays that way.

I have to wonder though, if Vista is aware of this bug why do they ship pendants...

I just got this response from Vista:

Hi Mike,

As said in previous email, this is a Mach3 bug.
From the pendant side, I can send you a modified plugin that disable the function of feedhold, so...

The problem came back! Just out of the blue. I welded several parts with no problem, then it went back to it's evil ways and substituted rapid moves for feed moves.

On a positive note I did get...

Acting on a recommendation from Mach3 support (very happy with them!), I cloned my new working configuration of Mach3 and loaded the Vista plugin again. The problem I was having is gone! I have...

Here is the latest in the saga with Mach3 and a Vista P2S pendant.

I configured a totally new Mach3 with all of the settings from my original. I left the Vista P2S pendant in another room. And...

I wish I knew what you are referring to! Key code assignments? My manual doesn't say anything about that. Is a more comprehensive manual available that I don't know about? I also don't have anything...

If I don't use the pendant it feeds as it should through the whole program whether optional stop is on or off.

If I use the pendant while optional stop is on, it works as it should until I use the...

I have a laser welder that I added a motion system to. Gecko steppers and 540 box, Mach 3 and a lot of machining to get it all together and working. Everything worked fine, but the mouse and keyboard...

We are a small, nine employee shop that manufactures instruments that are used in orthopedic surgery. We are looking for a machinist that has five or more years experience setting up and operating...

I would like to build a camera mount that could track stars for up to two hours. It would be a simple pair of levers, one being fixed to the tripod and the other attached to the camera. The axis of...

Well, after a lot of messing around it finally seems to be working! I installed a parallel card from Practical Micro Design (PMDX-2PARPCI) that let the parallel port work the way that the G540 needed...

Yes it is confusing!

I just got off the phone after talking with the designer (!) of the G540. He asked if the charge pump switch could be turned on without causing a fault. When I told him it...

I just activated both outputs in Mach3 (the lights are on in Mach3 diagnostic) and the resistance between ground and terminals 5 and 6 is 0.3 and 0.6 mega ohms.

Upon turning off the outputs in...

Thank you for your response.
I grounded the outputs and the diagnostic lights in Mach 3 stayed off. Should they come on? How can Mach3 sense this?
Regarding a 12V output, I was under the impression...

With outputs on, the voltage between the output terminals and terminal 12 is 0. With outputs off, voltage is about 1.5.

My intention was to test outputs 1 and 2. Is that not the right way? When I MDI an m3 or m8 command I look for voltage at the outputs. Which I get. Just not the full 42V of the supply. More like...

So it sounds like sinking is when it is switched on the negative side of the device and sourcing is when it is switched on the positive side. Why don't they just say that?

What exactly does "sink" mean? I've been assuming that it meant providing a current path to ground in this case. Is that wrong? I'm measuring the voltage between terminal 11 and terminals 5 and 6.
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Hello, I'm new to cnczone and am hoping that I can get an answer to a problem I'm having with my new Gecko 540.

I have it hooked up to a PC running Mach3. After quite a bit of messing around with...