has anyone Hooked up a Touch off Plate on a Gecko G540 ....

if so can you help an Electronicaly Challenged individual like myself with a diagram on the setup procedure.....

Brian, can't you just connect the touch plate wire to one of the inputs and then just ground to the machine?

Dave

Hee Hee.......I guess That is kinda part of my question can I use any input or does it have to be a specific one.....

Well I see you got it from Jeff on the Zone so, have fun-

Dave

Sorry Dave..

Yes Jeff answered here

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=556802#post556802

Yep, that's where I saw it, and no need to be sorry

Dave

What a Neat thing to have for you Taig......

Touching off used to be such a pain, This thing makes it kinda Fun....

Now if someone would come out with a inexpensive Toolchanger life would be Perfect......

Ever see this one?

http://home.insightbb.com/~joevicar3/Automatic_Tool_Changer_Plans.htm

Dave

looks nice Dave...can you buy them..?

No idea, I "think" they're only in kit form.

I've never persued it as it would be overkill for what I do and too much dicking around. Quite honestly, if you have the time to fool around with it, it would definitely be up on the "cool" factor

Dave

Now that was just sweet I didn't read into it I just looked at the Video but I could use it if it could be controlled with Mach 3 like Hoss man made for his X2.

Hello. First post here. This is how I set up my z axis height.

Very nice! Something you built yourself?

Welcome to the TOC Jacmarhal

I fixed the pic for you

use the middle link in the hosting software to post a pic......

Thanks Jeff and Admin. Yes, this is something I built myself on my cnc Taig mill. I was getting tired of using a shim to set cutter height, so I came up with this. It was modeled after a z axis preset gauge I seen in a catalog. I have it calibrated to 2.500 inches. I set z gauge block height in Mach 3 to 2.5 inches and I'm good to go.

Very nice work there....

Very slick indicator setup, nice job - and welcome to the forum -

Dave

Thanks guys. Here is something that you might also be interested in. It is modeled after Arie Kabaalstra's build on the CNCzone. http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=8&u=13505193

Admin, I can't seem to post an image directly to my post. Would you be able to walk me through the process? I'm not very computer literate.

Just click the "image" button in the toolbar above the reply box you type in and then put your link in there and you should be good to go.




Dave

Yes ...The image option of Links .... (Middle)

Took me alittle while to get used to this Format also, but its fairly User Friendly once you use it

I have the touch probe setup on my machine and sometimes it feeds down touches and comes up .300 and stops as it should

But sometimes it goes up 2 inches dwells and goes up again.....Why is it doing this...?

I had that problem once but a reboot solved it and it never resurfaced.

Brian, this may have to do with the "G91" mode. Have a look here and start reading around post #231. Greg has come up with a fix for this:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56079&page=6

Hope that may help you out-
Dave