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  • March 29, 2013 at 12:36 pm in reply to: Power Management and Shapeoko #3963
    n7qvu
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    It appears the following from TinyG Configuration wiki is incorrect/reversed:

    $1pm — Power management mode — 0=power shuts off when axis is not moving, 1=axis remains powered when idle

    It seems to conflict with the expanded info later down the page:
    Set to one of the following:
    •0 = Leave motor powered on when stopped
    •1 = Turn motor power off when stopped

    My question is:
    How long after ‘not moving’ does it power down?

    Jerry

    March 23, 2013 at 11:05 am in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3933
    n7qvu
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    After testing with a VOM on the coolant pins, I found that I have 3.3v after a M7 or M8 cmd and 0v after M9.

    Conclusion is the Coolant LED is not working on my board.

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 11:14 pm in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3931
    n7qvu
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    Here’s my boot info:
    tinyg [mm] ok>
    {“r”:{“fb”:370.080,”fv”:0.950,”hv”:7.000,”id”:”9H3906-SWX”,”msg”:”Loading configs from EEPROM”,”f”:[1,15,0,5124]}}
    {“r”:{“fb”:370.080,”fv”:0.950,”hv”:7.000,”id”:”9H3906-SWX”,”msg”:”SYSTEM READY”,”f”:[1,0,0,8270]}}
    tinyg [inch] ok>

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 11:10 pm in reply to: motor 3 (Z) stalling on shapeoko when sending program file via coolterm #3929
    n7qvu
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    My 2 cents:

    It looks like your ZVM ([zvm] z velocity maximum 1000.000 mm/min) is very high.

    I could only get 500mm/min from mine before the motor would lock up. NEMA 17 steppers

    Have you tried a small move like G0 z1.0?
    Mine would freeze until I lowered ZVM.

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 10:57 pm in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3927
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    I wasn’t the original poster, but just commented that my coolant LED was not turning on with M7 or M8 also.
    FYI: I don’t have anything hooked up to the coolant pin, just floating I guess.

    Does this help any?

    At this time, I don’t have any use for the coolant option, but willing to help troubleshoot.
    Maybe if we can get others to test it…might help.

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3925
    n7qvu
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    >>Are you running a v7 board?
    v7 23, just got it this week.
    >>The hardware version is set for V7.

    >>Also, which tinyg.hex did you use?
    I just loaded it from edge
    [fb] firmware build 370.08

    All I tried was to see if M7 & M8 turned on the coolant LED. It did not.

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 9:51 pm in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3920
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    [fb] firmware build 370.08
    [fv] firmware version 0.95
    [hv] hardware version 7.00

    From edge:

    I tested M7 & M8 for LEDs on, but nothing. Same with M9.
    M3, M4 & M5 works as usual.

    That’s about all I can test here.

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 7:46 pm in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3915
    n7qvu
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    I found a new tinyg.hex file in Dev. It’s called 372.01, but it doesn’t look like a valid hex file??

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Spindle and coolant on v6? #3912
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    [fb] firmware build 370.07
    [fv] firmware version 0.95
    [hv] hardware version 7.00

    I have the same issue:
    M7 and M8 do not turn on any LEDs.

    Jerry

    March 22, 2013 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Update settings on TinyG with CoolTerm #3911
    n7qvu
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    [fb] firmware build 370.07
    [fv] firmware version 0.95
    [hv] hardware version 7.00

    I just had the same issue when updating to 370.07 on my TinyG and Shapeoko. I lost ALL my settings, but had them captured in a document(backup).
    I decided to try putting all my unique settings in a .txt file(using g-code rules for comments) and load them with CoolTerm. It worked great and no issues so far.

    Below is the .txt setup I used.

    Jerry

    (TinyG & Shapeoko Config Setup – Mar-22-2013)
    (start)
    G20 (make sure in inches)
    ( )
    $GPL=0 (G17)
    $GUN=0 (G20)
    $GDI=0 (G90)
    ( )
    $EE=1 (local echo)
    ( )
    $1TR=1.439 (inches/rev)
    $2TR=1.369 (inches/rev)
    $3TR=0.049 (inches/rev)
    $2PO=1 (rev Y stepper)
    ( )
    $XVM=40.0 (X G0 max)
    $YVM=40.0 (Y G0 max)
    $ZVM=10.0 (Z G0 max)
    ( )
    $XFR=25.0 (X G1 max)
    $YFR=25.0 (Y G1 max)
    $ZFR=10.0 (Z G1 max)
    ( )
    $XTM=7.0 (X max travel)
    $YTM=8.0 (Y max travel)
    (end)

    March 21, 2013 at 4:57 pm in reply to: 'HELP' says use $si=0 #3907
    n7qvu
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    Fixed in 370.07

    Jerry

    March 21, 2013 at 4:55 pm in reply to: 'HELP' says use $DEFAULTS=1 #3906
    n7qvu
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    Fixed in 370.07

    Jerry

    March 21, 2013 at 4:53 pm in reply to: Limit switches not working, config changes not being saved #3905
    n7qvu
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    Just loaded 370.07 and it seems to be working great. No issues with saving ‘inch’ parms.

    This was my 1st use of my new MK programmer. I loaded the xboot.hex and then TinyG.hex via Studio 6.
    Only issue I had was when loading xboot, the lite kept flashing and the screen header indicated “device programming”, so I thought it was still working. Finally gave up and read the bottom of screen that said Verified OK. Loaded in TinyG, lite flashed 10 times and all is well.

    Jerry

    March 20, 2013 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Limit switches not working, config changes not being saved #3893
    n7qvu
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    I have the same issue.
    TinyG info:
    [fb] firmware build 370.05
    [fv] firmware version 0.95
    [hv] hardware version 7.00
    [id] TinyG ID 9H3906-SWX

    I tried many different ways and cannot get variables to save correctly while in “inches” mode. I tried $gun, G20 etc and never could save parms($1tr, 2tr) in “inches”

    I gave up, converted to mm and saved the parms…with no issues??

    Jerry

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