reading Pokeys pins

[gburk]

Art

I'm not sure how mach3 or 4 do it haven't tried it with the pokeys yet, have read some messages that people have got it working..

I do have it working with the smoothstepper in both mach3 and 4 not sure if mach3 or 4 are taking care of it or the plugin's is doing the work..
but with the smoothstepper I am using a c3 index board from cnc4pc and just using any input pin.. and set that pin to index in the config..

not sure if auggie could handle the c3 board and set an input pin to whatever pin #, kind of like we did with the probe input pin 19..
and check that pin constantly..

make sense?

Thanks gary

[ArtF]

Hi Gary:

    I suspect neither program will use it. The smoothstepper is likely feeding
it into a counter and then sending  a calculated value to its plugin. There is
no way to monitor such a signal, its very short and can at up to 20Khz,
so the CPU couldnt do anything else but check it. Auggie only converses with
the pokeys around 100 times a second, hundreds of index's would have
happened between each conversation, so other than counting the index,
the signal has no use in that context. Its real use is to sync for threading
and such but for spindle speed its pretty much useless.

  Ive never used a c3 board so Im unsure what the hookup would be to that.
Ill do some reading..

Art

[ArtF]

Gary:

YEs, just finished reading up on the c3, while it can take the index signal and send it to
a printer port, where mach3 could read it for example, or where a smoothstepper can
read and process it, the pokeys has no built in component to handle a count such as
that as far as I know. I think Mach4 is the same, its useful depending on the plugin.

Art

[gburk]

Art

I do have an encoder but haven't connected it up yet was going to use on lathe for threading, down the road a bit..

I hooked things up be messed up a bit hat the relays wire though the ssr output's and couldn't figure why they were not tripping dumb move..

But rewired for the onboard relays to my spindle and flood relays so will see it that's works better..

Also for the life of me I can't figure out why the pokeys enclosure is hot, it seems to have power running though the case, it doesn't show up in the house not connected to the mill, but i found out when i was going to plug in one of the home or probe plugs and i dropped it and the ground shield hit the corner of the case and sparked like crazy not sure why.. if i use my volt meter to the case and other end to mill table it shows 120volts.. but i never got shocked
Hoping someone will read this and maybe have some advise..

Thanks gary

[ArtF]

Gary:

  Sounds like maybe a grounding issue somewhere? What happens if you ground the case to the mill?
(Id hook a light bulb between the two myself to see if current flows..if not, its likely you should
add some grounds.)

Art

[ArtF]

Gary:

  Be cautious as you troubleshoot this grounding issue, its a pain to blow up your pokeys
by inadvertently feeding 110 to it..

Art

[gburk]

art

tried the light between the mill and case, it doesn't light so I guess thata s good thing..

But i'm thinking my spindle controller on the mill may have gone bad I thinks it a kb but I put in a hard place to get at under everything, go figure.

I thing I may have blown it up but not sure never heard any pop's or smoke, I think I may have connected the 0-10 to gnd and gnd to 0-10, think I wired the plug jack wrong.

Anyway if I put the spindle in manual mode and power it up I hear the fan go on if I turn the pot to on and spin it to max I here what sounds like a click in the controller maybe a relay, but no motor movement not even a hum.. so got something not so good going on..

pokeys is still fine, I still get a voltage change with m3 s2000 and off with m5...

Any suggestions on how to check the controller board?..
I wired the darn thing up so long ago I don't remember any of it...

Gary

[gburk]

ART

Still having so problems with the panels when placed on the main screen, they look fine in panel mode but some of them when place on the main screen the text is real small, I tried enlarging the panel on main screen but same small text almost un readable...

and it doesn't seem that I can change the text size from 9 to any other size it seems to have the option but doesn't save the changed text size always defaults back to 9. endless theres a trick im missing...

gary

[ArtF]

Gary:
Are you designing the panels to look HUGE in panel mode.
You should. The panel mode reflects the entire panel so should be
made to look huge. Change the text to the right size and then
save that huge panel. Does it still look small text?
If so, on what kind of control?

As to the controller for the spindle, if you did wire it backwards,
you may have tripped an on board fuse if your lucky. Many have
them. As manual doesn't work its likely a bus voltage is down,
so a fuse sounds likely..

Art

[gburk]

Art

Yes when I create the panel its full screen so it huge..
Yes I am saving the panels but doesn't seem to make a difference as for the text size i'm fairly sure its changed back to the default size as soon as I hit the ok after changing the size..

I will attach the panel as soon as I get it zipped, its the spindle panel but different from the one I sent you awhile ago..

I.m working on pulling the controls from the mill just a pain I put everything under the mill inside the cabinet
will do some test when I get it out I don't see any fuses but hard to have good look where it is, will know better when I get it out. maybe a Mosfet

Gary 

[gburk]

ART

here is the panel

gary

[Ya-Nvr-No]

I find formatting the text box shape, size and using \n for line feeds (splits long text lines up) is the biggest control of font size conditions.

Wished the fonts fit the text box a little tighter too, but I've learned ways around it. Sometimes makes it hard with the overlapping during creation and edits, but that's the challenge.

Photo shows how I used your probing panel for an alternative look.
couple of your panels back for you to see.

[gburk]

Art

I went back and tried that with the spindle.panel it was a little better but not great, for some reason when I am editing the panel it fills the screen and every thing looks good, but when I go back to the main screen the panel doesn't seem to fill the panel box, the width is ok fills the panel but the height isn't filling the panel box
there is quite a bit of empty space on top and bottom, seems like that's the only panel I am having that problem with.

Did a little testing on the mill and i'm not sure what the problem is, turn the mill on in manual mode and I hear a relay clicking on the small fan comes on.
and the green led light up then if i turn the pot on the orange led lights up but no spindle even with the pot to max power, not sure how to test the pot.
but i am assuming it the controller i fried..

Thanks gary

[ArtF]

Gary:

Sounds like its fried..but that may just be a fuse inside. I doubt the pot is bad,
seems unlikely..

  Ill take a look at the panels and see what rules I used for sizing, though I
suspect changing anything in there may affect already designed screens. It
may just be its a zoomed panel rather than a shared one, they were always
harder to manage.

Art

[gburk]

Art

I tested the motor and I am getting a good ohm reading so I am going with its the controller...
ordering a new one today, so won't know if the spindle in auggie works till I get the new one bummer.

I made a completely new spindle panel and I ended up with the same results, if I set it up as resizable it looks good on that screen just not on the main screen..
and I and assuming that the text resize doesn't work right now in the fonts ?.

Thanks gary