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    Chinese HL-1060 Enclosure surface coating

    What are the panels and main enclosure coated with?

    Have they been painted or have they been powder coated?

    I've easily cleaned the inside residue with a product called Simple Green. There's...
  2. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Didn't know we could purchase the motherboard!
    I'll squirrel that tidbit of information away! Thnx
  3. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    @ Mactec54
    Sorry, I didn't answer your question about fixing the grounding issue. I simply went into my 220V outlet housing and added a wire from the ground side of the outlet to the back of its...
  4. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    @ Dean448
    Have no idea on an out of warranty input as mine is under warranty. I'm paying S&H though. Marcus said most of the items are SMDs so having an end user like myself, it's just as well to...
  5. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    After some hand holding with Marcus from GeckoDrive, Inc., we determined the Input pin from the Gecko had failed. Took some doing to get me to that point as I'd tried seemingly endless...
  6. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Well, I'm back.

    Signal is still working but just discovered that G31 is being ignored. Tried 3 different auto-tool zero routines as well as putting "G31 Z-1 F1".

    I'd read elsewhere that...
  7. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Found this and behold I'd fallen prey to misidentified pins.

    Note specifically the cross up with pin 7 and pin 13.

    Hope this helps others. Study it closely if needed.
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  8. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Thanks for all the help!

    Working beautifully again.

    Now here's the strange part which makes no sense to me and I'm sharing it here for other's reference as well:

    I noticed from the...
  9. Thanks! I have put one end of the resistor in...

    Thanks!
    I have put one end of the resistor in pin 26 and then connected the wire from pin 13 to the other end of the resistor.
    Which then goes to the touch plate.

    Are you saying to put the...
  10. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    It's only my touch plate and clip that I'm testing. My actual digitizing probe won't be connected again unless I get the probing circuit straightened out.
    Sorry that wasn't clear.
  11. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Thanks for the response!

    I previously moved the probe's wiring to one of the input pins on the SmoothStepper Port 2 and reconfigured the ports & pins accordingly in Mach3. That didn't work either...
  12. Re: Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Anybody?
  13. Mach3, Smoothstepper, Gecko 540: Probe stopped working

    Mach3 v3.043.062 (licensed) Using the Window10 patched version
    Smoothstepper
    Gecko 540 on Port 1

    CNC6040 router

    Everything was setup and working for quite sometime. Steppers moved, homing &...
  14. Thread: G-Code to DXF

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    Re: G-Code to DXF

    What do you mean "to draw"? Are you asking whether it converts to *.drw?
    The whole thread here is about *.dxf and I'm certain that it there's no way possible for it to convert to drw.
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    Re: Ethernet Smoothstepper not working

    Did you ever get this resolved? I am having the same problem with a new setup.
    Scouring the internet and haven't found anything yet.

    Port 1 is working fine.
    Laser on Port 2 but nothing's...
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    Re: VFD interface to other equipment.

    I wish this was more legible. I can't make out hardly any of it.
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    I'll check it out on my Win10-64 tomorrow evening...

    I'll check it out on my Win10-64 tomorrow evening and post back here unless someone else does first.
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    Try Mach3 R3.043.062. Seems I recall some...

    Try Mach3 R3.043.062.

    Seems I recall some folks were having issues with the probing routine in Mach3 R3.043.066
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    Re: Water cooled Chinese spindle disassembly

    I made a fool as well but it started galling the holes in the soft aluminum so I found an adjustable pin wrench at Harbor Freight for $5 and it worked great!
    ...
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    Re: Water cooled Chinese spindle disassembly

    I'm struggling to get that aluminum nut off. I've made a special tool to do so and have been able to get it loose but it gets really tight again as I try too take it off.
    You said to be careful...
  21. XHC-MKX-IV Rev 5 issue controlling laser, JTechPhotonics Driver and PicConvert (DAC)

    The boards are all successfully talking to each other, well sorta.

    I have an oddity with the XHC and the spindle output controlling the on/off of the laser itself. As a safety feature of the...
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    Re: non-metallic liner

    I used a flexible pvc shower liner. It goes on the floor before installing the shower. The beauty is it can be lapped and glued as needed.

    I also sloped the platform from back to front and cut a...
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    Re: G-Code Ripper - Scale, Rotate and Split G-code

    I built an additional type probe using a momentary switch. No matter what kind of material I probe now, it works. And there's no glue residue to clean up.


    Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk
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    Re: Single Line Fonts, how to get them

    Thanks stonix for the upload.
    I loaded the chr file into StickFont v2.5 and noticed that if I use a space character the next 18 or so characters get underlined.
    Sorry I don't know more about...
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    Re: Open Source V-Carving

    True. I'm already doing this sort of thing.

    Sent from my VS990 using Tapatalk
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    Re: Open Source V-Carving

    Thanks for the fix! Truly appreciate your continuing development.

    I guess it's just a fluke that the file size for v1.56 and v1.57 is exactly the same.

    Opened successfully and states v1.57...
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    Sticky: Re: XYZ Probe modification

    Did you try the "Load Screens" from the "View" drop down menu in Mach3 and select the new set file?
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    Re: Open Source V-Carving

    StickFont v1.1 does that and it's free. It's called Character Spacing instead of kerning in that particular software.

    StickFont v2.5 isn't free but it does offer a few additional options if you...
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    Re: Open Source V-Carving

    Good to know!
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    Re: Open Source V-Carving

    I see this occasionally too. I just load the processed GCode and manually delete the lines of code. I've also ran the file with them there and really can't see a difference in finished results since...
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