Denford Triac VMC with ATC Conversion / Fix

[Chaz]

OK, have some success. Long story ...... dont trust things till you have opened the connector and verified each pin.

[JAZZCNC]

OK, have some success. Long story ...... dont trust things till you have opened the connector and verified each pin.

Argh the old pin shuffle gotcha trick.!! . . . Got me too many times. My prefered way of converting is to rip the guts out and start again. It's often quicker than chasing dodgy wiring and connectors.!

[fidia]

Really liking the progress on this. Great job. If you decide to sell it make sure there are crowd control barriers in place.

I have 2 Triac VMC's and a Cyclone and all are great machines. i2i is the man if you have any questions on the Triac. Its quite possible he may have designed them lol.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1q...jF1bokwPgJQWnA

[Chaz]

Really liking the progress on this. Great job. If you decide to sell it make sure there are crowd control barriers in place.

I have 2 Triac VMC's and a Cyclone and all are great machines. i2i is the man if you have any questions on the Triac. Its quite possible he may have designed them lol.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1q...jF1bokwPgJQWnA

Thanks. Those your vids? Watched a few of them before and after buying my Triac.

[Chaz]

So, had movement last night. Now I have a machine determined to go max X Y Z + in all directions and I cant get it to come back from that. I cant engage soft limits on Mach 3, says I am no longer able to use that as I have gone past the extreme limits. If I hold in the axis override button on the Denford, it just keeps going more + in all directions. When I try and jog to -, eventually I get a ePid fault.

Argh.

[JAZZCNC]

So, had movement last night. Now I have a machine determined to go max X Y Z + in all directions and I cant get it to come back from that. I cant engage soft limits on Mach 3, says I am no longer able to use that as I have gone past the extreme limits. If I hold in the axis override button on the Denford, it just keeps going more + in all directions. When I try and jog to -, eventually I get a ePid fault.

This is why you should just concentrate on one area at a time and not try to get everything working in one go. E-stop is all you need at first for safety until you have the machine moving correctly and under full control.
Then you can start introducing Limits, Homes etc.

Turn off Mach softlimits for now until you have it working correctly. The messages will be because you probably haven't homed but you have enabled the Home inputs so Mach doesn't reset Machine coordinates to Zero when you push Ref all like it does when they are Not enabled.
Now The Machine coordinates will only be reset to Zero when mach see's the input assigned to that Axis change. With you jogging around etc you will now be well outside Soft limits hence the message.

[Chaz]

This is why you should just concentrate on one area at a time and not try to get everything working in one go. E-stop is all you need at first for safety until you have the machine moving correctly and under full control.
Then you can start introducing Limits, Homes etc.

Turn off Mach softlimits for now until you have it working correctly. The messages will be because you probably haven't homed but you have enabled the Home inputs so Mach doesn't reset Machine coordinates to Zero when you push Ref all like it does when they are Not enabled.
Now The Machine coordinates will only be reset to Zero when mach see's the input assigned to that Axis change. With you jogging around etc you will now be well outside Soft limits hence the message.

Thanks. I had X and Y working ok last night. Not sure what I did since but double checking all again.

[Chaz]

Sorry, its gone to - on all directions. Trying to move to +. For reference, I am not using any limits wired to the CSLabs yet, its still using wired through its normal E Stop etc for max overlimit etc.