UGS Alarm - Machine doesn't move

Community Support UGS
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Team,

Scratching my head on this one. This is a new build and I’m on the electronics install step. I’ve tried installing UGS on two separate computers, and I have the same issue. When I connect my computer to the controller I get a positive connection. I’ve changed all the jogging step settings as indicated and have all four lights on the controller. No matter what I do “Alarm” posts and I cannot move the machine either via direct input of an X/Y/Z input, or by jogging. I’ve confirmed the wiring is tight on all connections and there is no binding on the machine.

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Update: I reinstalled multiple times and now when I load up UGS I get the following:

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I don’t know why the machine position is showing so far off and I cannot figure out how to reset it to zero. When I zero out the location it moves the machine to those inverted positions. I’m guessing the lack of movement I’m having is associated with this.

Any help is much appreciated!

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Update:

Turns out all my problems were from the EEPROM settings being wildly incorrect.

I changed to:

DEFAULT SETTINGS

$0=10
$1=100
$2=1
$3=5
$4=1
$5=0
$6=0
$10=1
$11=0.010
$12=0.002
$13=0
$20=0
$21=0
$22=0
$23=0
$24=25.000
$25=500.000
$26=250
$27=1.000
$30=30000
$31=0
$32=0
$100=200.000
$101=200.000
$102=200.000
$110=4000.000
$111=4000.000
$112=3000.000
$120=750.000
$121=750.000
$122=500.000
$130=812.000
$131=812.000
$132=105.000

This fixed all my problems. Machine is moving now.

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Glad you figured it out. I’m curious how they got so screwed up. I thought the boards were flashed and checked before they left Sienci.

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I thought so too. I woke up in the middle of the night and figured out what was going on. Now if I can just figure out how to send a Spindle On/Off command from UGS to the board I can start working on wiring things up to my VFD! M05/M03 don’t seem to do anything.

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I’ve been thinking about going to a spindle, so I’m very interested in your VFD progress. Please keep us informed.

Have fun. Stay safe.

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I’ve been trying to figure out the wiring for the VFD.

So far, my progress is in this post: