Mach3 Center probe inside diameter Metric Version

Dear CNC colleagues, I’m reaching out for your help.

I just upgraded my PC to a 64-bit Win 10.
So I had to say goodbye to my old controllbox since it only was working with Parallel cable.

Invested in a PoKey57CNC and it works great on my CNC, except for one thing….
I do have a OX CNC with two motors on the Y axis where the “Y motor” is master and the “A motor” is slave.

Running Mach3 latest version (.066) – All in Metric system

The issue I have is when I’m trying to use the macro “Center probe inside diameter Metric Version”
There are 2 issues actually:

1. When I start the macro it goes to the left, slow and nice, touches the edge, stops and then it rapidly goes far to the right not stopping when the probe touches the right edge of the hole.

2. When it comes to the Y axis calibration for the hole it seems that the “slave” axis won’t work.
Only the “Y” motor moves a few step before machine crashes. The “A” motor won’t move.

I attach a PDF file with my setup screenshots in Mach3 and also for the PoKeys57CNC

Hope that someone out there can provide me with a working solution.

Many thanks in advance! :-)

Kent from Sweden

The first thing I would try is to switch to Mach3 3.043.062.

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Originally Posted by ger21

The first thing I would try is to switch to Mach3 3.043.062.

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Hi ger21, thanks for your reply.
Just wondering why .062 version?
I do have the latest version .066.

Best regards
Kent

Bacause the .066 version is known to be buggy.

Hi again ger21,

Now I've installed the .062 version :-)

Still have the issue with the Y&A axis when trying to find the center of a pipe/hole.
The Y motor is moving as it should but the A motor do not want to join the Y motor. So after a few steps the X axis is not longer perpendicular to the Y axis.

In the "ALL REF" script I use "Ref combine (10)" this combines the Y & A motor to move exactly like.

Could this in some way be used in the problem mentioned above???

Best regards

Kent

Hi,

I'm still struggling with the HossProbe script for the zero centering of a hole.

I use the PoKeys57CNC controllbox.

What is happening is that when i hit the centering button the X axis moves left, touches the plate, goes to the center and then the same procedure to the right side. So far so good.
When it come to the Y axixs the problem starts.

Since I have 2 motors on my gantry (Y & A motor, where A motor is slave to Y motor) the tool only activates one of the motors and also start the X axis.
So instead of going stight forward and touch the plate (to the + side and then back to the - side) it tryes to move forward/sideways, even though in small steps.

My earlier setup with my older controllbox (parallel port) and Win 7 everything worked perfectly. Now i changed to Win 10 and bought me the complete Pokeys57CNC with the Postep 25-32 drivers
Using all the latest updates on the software (except Mach3 Smiley . using .062 version)

I attatche all the setup in Mach3 + script and the PoKeys setup in the ZIP-file.

I really hope that someone out there can help me - I'm out of ideas
Thanks in advacns for all help

Wish you all a Happy New Year Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

Kent

You can switch back to parallel port if you want, one of our machines uses windows 10 64 bit on a parallel port, latest motherboard i5 series :) on my experience I cannot make the USB port perform as stable as the parallel port, too many bugs and instabilities, parallel port is as stable as a rock on my opinion.

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Originally Posted by KH0UJ

You can switch back to parallel port if you want, one of our machines uses windows 10 64 bit on a parallel port, latest motherboard i5 series :) on my experience I cannot make the USB port perform as stable as the parallel port, too many bugs and instabilities, parallel port is as stable as a rock on my opinion.

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Hi KH0UJ,

Thanks for your reply.
Sorry to say, but there is no way back for me when i comes to parallellport.

I already invested in a i7 and the newest motherboards do not come with parallell ports any more.
I need a rather powerfull PC since I also do a lot of filmwork :-)

I have connected the Pokeys with Ethernet instead for USB since the distance between PC and Controllbox is more than 6 meters.

Regards

Kent