ESS Mach4 and Probing

[@AnotherMe890]

Great video, thanks!

[@gary48500]

Great video,Is the probe button loading a module.? I see you are using gcode wait so I assume its a wxlua module correct me if I am wrong, and I'm wrong most of the time...Thanks gary

[@jb-tech4647]

Daz, is there anyway youd be willing to share your lua coding? I am by no means a coder and I really struggle with it. I can setup a machine to run a cycle and fabricate all kinds of stuff, but the coding simply whips me and really, takes the fun out of operating my mill.

[@paulmageau645]

Can you tell me which probe that is you are using ? I have not been able to find a optical probe ike that that has wire for the "contact" sensing.

[@Ogre7212]

This is a great video have you considered sharing you code?

[@Antony_Manuel555]

Hello Daz, I would like to connect with you to work on a probing project.

[@marcosotero6180]

for me is imposible understand how to wire it.. i saw your video ess/mb3 and your mods, probe is x204 port 2 pin 4 but were other wires? 0v? .. we need put 24v in anywere.. i dont understand diagrams.. i understand photos.

[@gary48500]

Daz having problem with the getregistor value also I created a function in the screen load scriptfunction GetRegister(regname) local hreg = mc.mcRegGetHandle(inst,"iRegs0/%s", regname) return mc.mcRegGetValueString(hreg) endI get an error nul value to global call getregistor thanks gary

[@gary48500]

Great video,Is the probe button loading a module.? I see you are using gcode wait so I assume its a wxlua module correct me if I am wrong, and I'm wrong most of the time...Thanks gary

[@dazthegas2001]

All the code is within the button, no external module loaded so each button can be tailor made and not restricted to whats in a module.

[@gary48500]

Thanks a lot, so a lua panel can run gcode wait without messing up the gui like it doesn't lock up the gui till the move has finished?.

[@gary48500]

Are you going to change this in some way so the screen dro's update as the probe is running, does the code have to be in a module or a coroutine...

[@dazthegas2001]

The code I have shown is for example only and what I use the rest is up to you what you do, when using mcGodeExecuteWait this will halt all other activity except the PLC, I prefer to just leave the motion controller to just do its stuff.

[@ratherrelatablemantisshrim2409]

sorry if this is a horribly stupid question, but what is the ESS?

[@milehidude]

I'm sure you've received an answer long ago, but in the event that you haven't, it stands for Ethernet Smooth Stepper. A wonderful piece of solid state circuitry brought to the hobby CNC market by Warp 9.