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24 Sep 2019 07:03 #146040 by tommylight
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I could try a different PC and just move the config over.

That would eliminate the computer issues, so please do that.
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24 Sep 2019 15:00 #146079 by Clive S
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I could try a different PC and just move the config over.

That would eliminate the computer issues, so please do that.


At Last success. I had another pc set up with 2.9 so transferred the config to it and would you believe it. It worked 12mtr/min no prob. With good smooth motor control. With the Brix pc the motors were running dog rough (No not Tom's dog).

I then took the SSD out of the Brix pc and tested it in the Dell that worked good also.

So what do I look for in the Brix that would cause this?
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24 Sep 2019 15:04 #146080 by Clive S
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May I give a big and special thanks to all that have helped me with this. :) :) :)
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24 Sep 2019 16:00 #146087 by tommylight
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I have a stinking suspicion that is cased by thermal throttling of the CPU, or constant change of the processor divider and it's power states.
Does it have a Bios? Did you already disable every useless feature in it?

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24 Sep 2019 19:09 #146104 by rodw
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I suspect there are some BIOS settings that need fixing in your Brix. I feel a bit bad 'cos you bought it on my recommendation. But all is not lost, you can check my BIOS settings when you come to Australia :)

I'll try and get some photos of the BIOS settings I use before then.

If you think the Brix has a convoluted BIOS, you should see the BIOS in the Baytrail Chipset J1900 and J1850's I have here now. They won't even boot until you spend half an hour tweaking the settings!





But the good thing is they are quite OK with latency with the inbuilt Wifi and the one that turned up this week has 2 LAN ports and 2 RS232 serial ports. So everything you need for a Mesa card and Hypertherm RS485 control.
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24 Sep 2019 21:16 #146107 by Clive S
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I suspect there are some BIOS settings that need fixing in your Brix. I feel a bit bad 'cos you bought it on my recommendation. But all is not lost, you can check my BIOS settings when you come to Australia :)


Don't feel bad Rod I am happy that I bought it.

I am going to have another go in the morning with the bios.

Now I have good control and homing fine I need to get onto the next stage with PlasmaC I am not sure now where the link is for it.

I have the THC wired to the plasma terminals via 1 meg r's just need a cat5 for the other end of the THC to the 7i96.

Do it keep the breakaway switch input away from the floating Z switch (would that be the probe)? I will be using scratch start..

Just rambling so betting get some reading done.

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25 Sep 2019 01:01 #146123 by rodw
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Clive, This is what I've got set



I suspect that this next setting might be worth trying as disabled but it may be affected by the previous setting. Mine is working, so I don't want to play....
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25 Sep 2019 08:06 #146136 by tommylight
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In the first screen there is "restore AC power loss" and it is off ! Why?
I leave that ON always as i do not want to open the cabinet and push the power button, so i just turn on the machine power and the PC starts automagically !
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25 Sep 2019 08:22 #146139 by rodw
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Actually, I saw that today and wondered the same thing. My PC is powered seperately from the control box and it stays on 24/7.
I've never turned a PC off for about 25 years.... Occasionally fan would go in a power supply back in the old days.. But fanless is cool!

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25 Sep 2019 08:26 #146140 by Clive S
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Rod . I have a few more settings on the advanced screen as well. But tried them all to the same effect.

Tom. Yes I agree on my mill the pc starts up on power on auto.
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