Hello Tom,
 Looking for a way to have a pop up reminder.
My VFD will run on Single or 3Phase, but its not recommended to run it on Single phase with my 10 HP motor.The 3 phase converter iam running allows the single phase 220 line to pass on through to machine, even with converter off.
So what i need is a reminder to tell me to turn on phase converter. How could KMCNC be set to pop up a message the first time a spindle command is executed? Whether it be by Gcode or a button.


Troy

I'm not sure I understand, but you might add a message box to the Spindle on (M3/M4) C Program such as "Converter ON?" with Yes No buttons.  Halt without turning on the spindle for No. 

A Virtual Bit could be used as a flag to indicate whether the question has ever been ever answered Yes.

It isn't clear when the Converter might be turned off and you would want to ask the question again.  After Cycle Power on KFLOP?  After relaunching KMotionCNC?  After not running the Spindle for 5 minutes? 

Can you interface the Converter status to KFLOP?

Regards
TK

 

Hello Tom,
 Looking for a way to have a pop up reminder.
My VFD will run on Single or 3Phase, but its not recommended to run it on Single phase with my 10 HP motor.The 3 phase converter iam running allows the single phase 220 line to pass on through to machine, even with converter off.
So what i need is a reminder to tell me to turn on phase converter. How could KMCNC be set to pop up a message the first time a spindle command is executed? Whether it be by Gcode or a button.


Troy

Hi Tom,
 Your example sounds like it would do what iam after. The converter will be turned off at the end of the day. So next day or reboot of KFLOP should work just fine.
Dont know how to interface converter to KFLOP other than some sort of monitor on the 3rd leg of power coming to machine.

Troy

Hi Moray,

 Thought about that also and might do that, but would like to try Toms method at software level. If nothing else , just to see how the code works.

 

Troy

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Hi Troy,

Bits 48-63 are Virtual.  They are guaranteed to be 0 on power up.

So you would do something like:

if (!ReadBit(48))  // is the bit set indicating the Operator answered yes?
{
    // no, ask the question
.
.
.
    // Operator Answered Yes - set the Bit to remember this
    SetBit(48);
}

 

Hi Tom,

 Do you have an example of using virtual bit as you described?

 

Thanks,

Troy

 

 

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Subject: Re: [DynoMotion] Pop Up Reminder

 

 

I'm not sure I understand, but you might add a message box to the Spindle on (M3/M4) C Program such as "Converter ON?" with Yes No buttons.  Halt without turning on the spindle for No. 

A Virtual Bit could be used as a flag to indicate whether the question has ever been ever answered Yes.

It isn't clear when the Converter might be turned off and you would want to ask the question again.  After Cycle Power on KFLOP?  After relaunching KMotionCNC?  After not running the Spindle for 5 minutes? 

Can you interface the Converter status to KFLOP?

Regards
TK

On 12/31/2017 1:05 PM, tmday88@... [DynoMotion] wrote:

 

Hello Tom,
 Looking for a way to have a pop up reminder.
My VFD will run on Single or 3Phase, but its not recommended to run it on Single phase with my 10 HP motor.The 3 phase converter iam running allows the single phase 220 line to pass on through to machine, even with converter off.
So what i need is a reminder to tell me to turn on phase converter. How could KMCNC be set to pop up a message the first time a spindle command is executed? Whether it be by Gcode or a button.


Troy