Hello there,
How are you guys? I'm new on your forum and on CNC world.
I need someone to help me with the charge pump function on mach3! how i need to install it and for what this function help me!
Thanks so much!
Hello there,
How are you guys? I'm new on your forum and on CNC world.
I need someone to help me with the charge pump function on mach3! how i need to install it and for what this function help me!
Thanks so much!
Charge Pump (aka CP) is a 12KHZ square wave generated by MACH when MACH is working and it is out of reset. It is a safety signal that you can use in attched hardware to sense when MACH is ready to run and to keep any motion from happening or outputs turning on when you boot up the coputer and the parallel port is initiated in Windows. How it is use is up to what hardware you are using MACH with.
I always use the output of the charge pump/Watchdog timer in the hardwired E-Stop string, this shuts off all motive power devices until the PC is ready or in the event of a system crash.
Al.
CNC, Mechatronics Integration and Custom Machine Design
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert E.