Team,

This thread is for posting helpful Tips, fixes for known problems or documentation relating to the NC Pod. Please try to reduce the number of questions asked in this thread to keep it nice and clean and a good place to come for help. Please feel free, however, to let us know if one of the tips, fixes or documents, did not help ar needs adjustment so we can provide better support.

Kindest Regards

Dave

Team,

Here is a preliminary connection diagram and setup document that will hopefully take some of the confusion out of connecting your pod for the first time. If there are any mistakes or if I have missed anything, please let me know.

www.cncteknix.com/ncpod/ncpod_diagram.pdf

Take it easy!!

Dave

There is a known issue regarding the loss of communications between Mach3 and the NC Pod.

1. Is USB 1 - Ensure that you are using a PC or Laptop with USB 2.

On some PC's and Laptop's the Pod will stop communicating after a certain number of minutes (or lines of code). So far, this problem has been fixed by going in to your computers bios. In the bios, you will see a mode for USB called "Legacy Mode". If it is enabled then that is more than likely the problem. To fix the problem, disable legacy mode and re-boot your computer, you should find that it will now have stable communication.

Dave,
   Thanks to you and rcrabb I have these pics to help. If you want to delete, feel free.


Brett