I'm new here so forgive me. I couldn't find anything searching
My setup:
I have 2 cncs running off one ESS, a mill and router. The router is on port 1 and the mill is on Port 2
(I'll have to get you the exact versions and stuff later, I thought I had them on my work computer but I don't)
Computer - Win8, either 4 or 6 GB of Ram, i5 processor Surface Pro1
Mach3 - the version suggested by Warp9
ESS - ~Approximately the Lastest as of Aug ~ 2016
Port 1:
TB6560
Port 2:
k4030L drivers into a C10 board into ESS
Problem: I can run gcode just fine, I just can't jog. I click the jog button, it lights for a fraction of a second then goes away. I hit Tab to get the MPG. I can hit shuttle, that blinks on/off in yellow. I cannot toggle jog, jog/cycle/step, I cannot jog with the triangles
What I think the message said:
Something something something "Ess Smooth stepper made a change, if you did not mean to make this change please contact support" Something something something.
I have no idea what that message said or meant or anything and everything went to s*** after it popped up
Here's what I was doing:
I was attempting to get a touch probe to work, the type where you ground one end to the endmill and the other to a plate. The mill then moves to touch the plate, then zero's the dro etc..
My 'problem' was that the TB6560 doesn't have a port for a probe. I figured, no worries, I'll just use the one off the other. So first I was checking to see if one of the extra ports on the TB6560 could sub as a pin for a probe, I started checking limit switch pins on Port1 going from 1,2,3 to 23,24,25 (IOW I set xhome, yhome, zhome and probe to pins 1,2,3,4 respectively. I then touched the ground clip to the plate and checked the 'LEDs' on the diagnostics page for action. Nothing lite up so I incremented them to 5,6,7,8 and so on to 25.)
After that, I had this "brilliant" thought to just use the probe pin on the C10 board, pin 12 or 13 (I forget which I had setup at the moment but we'll just assume it's 12 for this). So I went back into the Ports & Pins screen and changed the probe from Pin 25 Port 2, to Port 1 Pin 12.
When I closed the Ports & Pins screen, I got the pop up. usually that pop up is the ESS lost connection or something. This time it was something different but muscle memory took over and I closed it before reading it. I then attempted to jog the machine over to the plate and do the probe. I couldn't jog it. "Hmm... weird", I then noticed the Jog button on screen 1 was no longer lit. I clicked it on, and it went green then black again. Then I tried every other screen to see if I could jog it and nothing worked and that's when I might have cried or got something in my eye, I'm not sure...
Here's what I tried to fix it.
1) Tried every possible method to toggle jog on, MPG, TAB, Ctrl+ arrows, Shift + Arrows etc.
2) Turn everything off and on again.
3) Verified I could run GCode, I can so it's not a motor coms issue
4) Went back to settings I had backed up when the machine was first installed - Nothing...
5) I thought it was because ESS was seeing 6 Drivers, so I figured, eh, maybe it won't allow jogging because it doesn't know what I want to jog. So I uplugged port 1. No change..
((Frustration set in))
6) Uninstalled Mach and reinstalled it - Jog still doesn't work
To Do:
Tonight I am going to remove everything Mach and ESS related and start from 0, if that doesn't work... well lets not think about that just yet.
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