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No amount of Googling has yielded any reference to the wipers underneath my 3016's way covers. They appear to be a second line of defense against chips that make their way past the way covers then...

After countless attempts to figure out why xmodem wasn't working on my 1993 3016 (1400-4 controller board), I used 8N1 instead of 7E1 and it worked the very first time I tried.

Until trying 8N1, I...

QAMTHE,

Your post is quite old, now. But, given this is the first time I've seen it, I'll give answering a shot.

I don't know what formats the QC10 saves the data it gathers in, but if it is...

This was the only thread I found with the error "amplifier fault on axis Z" that I was seeing on my 1993 Fadal 3016. But, my fix was different, so I thought I'd share.

The z-axis was fine prior...

If you'd rather not choose your machine every time you start up your virtual PP2 instance, edit the pathpilotmanager.py file and comment lines shown below (add the hashes at the beginning of each...

Update:

Went back and tried it:


G10 L1 P50 Z[#5403-0.5]
T50 G43 H50 M6


Works perfectly! Thanks for the tip.

Interesting. I tried using #5403 in my code and it was always zero. I must have some other bug.

I'm doing some mill turning. The idea is to keep looping through a subroutine (and making parts)...

I've seen a number of ways to set tool offsets (G10 L1 etc), but I haven't yet found a way to read the current tool length offset in gcode.

I'm looking for a variable like #5223 (the Z offset in...

That's no good.

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure the "Internet" button is clicked in the Status tab.

Your screen shot is identical to what I see when I run smbstatus.

Once I saw there were no errors, I needed to hard-reboot my PathPilot machine before I was able to see the gcode share again.

Run smbstatus to see if there are any problems:



sudo service samba restart
sudo smbstatus

Interesting. The smb.conf.share should be owned by you, not sure why you're seeing a permissions error. Try:

sudo nano smb.conf.share

After upgrading to PathPilot 2.0, I was no longer able to access my gcode folder over the network. The smb.conf settings Tormach uses are not compatible with Samba4 (it looks as though this new...

That's great! What else have you tried? Is Mach3 moving things consistently now?

Well, that changes things. You don't have to check your computer's bios settings. Since the x-axis moved, we know your printer port is working.

Were the red LEDs on the non-working axes (Y and...

Take your time, LX. I'm in Europe with family for another week, all projects on hold here as well.

LX,

When your lights are off (the "engage" position) are you able to turn the cranks? The servos should resist you when they are on (when the error lights are off, the servos are on). If they...

Let's start by determining whether the servos and accompanying electronics are in order. Without them, Mach3 can do nothing.

I'm looking at your pics in post #8. We have similar setups. I'm...

LX,

Tampa is a pretty long commute from San Francisco, but I'll help from afar to the degree I can. Can you tell us more about what specifically you've run into? You've mentioned "installation"...

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Awesome! Thx.

I'm waiting to see which motors I get before milling my mounts. As I understand it, the existing hole pattern is for NEMA34 motors. Not sure if the X-axis motor mount will be stiff enough even if I...

LX,

Appreciate it, whenever you get time. If a picture is too much of a pain, a brand and part# would be just as good. I've got some Geckos on the way to me now, so I've ramped up the search...

Already planning to use Geckos, that will account for the first $400. I'm going to try EMC2 instead on MACH3 when I finally get this put together.

I was wondering about your servo motors...

LX,

I paid way too much for my 1720 without CNC or tooling ($1200). I'm pretty envious of the screaming deal you got on yours.

Any chance you could take close-up pictures of the labels on your...

Dunkel Bros appears to be down near Long Beach. Do they have a location in the San Francisco area?

I'm converting my Shoptask 1720XMTC and am looking for some local suppliers. Anyone know of an outfit that stepped in and took over when Triangle Machine called it quits?

Halted (HSC) in Santa...

Unteins,

I'm just starting a CNC conversion of my benchtop mill/lathe (Shoptask 1720XMTC) and am presently arming myself with as much knowledge as I can gather about how to go about it.

I'm...