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Steve-m
10-02-2022, 02:33 PM
Hi Guys

Old guy returning now im retired I have finally made a small plasma table for shed, only 540mm x 460mm cut area, small PC a NVUM controller and Mach3

running sheet cam and mach3 thc scriber as post,

have got all working eventually, sort of, apart from switching on plasma Mach3 says torch on but ill be buggered if i can work out how i can get a output to turn on a relay Help please if any one has any idea where or what im doing weong or missing, I hate bloody software

Thanks all

Steve

https://youtu.be/2huUEvnkJSM

JAZZCNC
13-02-2022, 06:56 PM
Hi Steve,

Pushing F5 or calling M3 will turn ON or OFF the output number you set in the Spindle (plasma uses spindle M3) setup section of ports n pins. By default, I think mach3 is set to use Output #1

You can also edit the M3 macro and have it do whatever you want using VB code.

Steve-m
13-02-2022, 08:57 PM
Hi Steve,

Pushing F5 or calling M3 will turn ON or OFF the output number you set in the Spindle (plasma uses spindle M3) setup section of ports n pins. By default, I think mach3 is set to use Output #1

You can also edit the M3 macro and have it do whatever you want using VB code.

Thanks was using port 1 swapped to port 2 pin 1 and there it was

Thanks