Look in the manual and see if the motion controller supports slaved axis.
Mike.
Hey Mike, thanks for the suggestion. After looking through the manual I don't actually see anything specifically about slaved axis support. I was under the impression slaving was on the mach3 end of things as the board does have A axis output, everything is hooked up and does jog fine. I could be missing something though.
Hi,
there is a thread running on the main board which is remarkably similar, the same controller that apparently
wont slave another motor.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,36619.msg251297.html#msg251297
Craig
Hi Craig, thanks for the reply! I've read through that thread a few times and was hoping to take something away from it, but it seems like Olavi is experiences random coordinate changes, motor direction changes and homing issues. Although his motor function stopping is similar, my motors will always work when I am jogging the machine. The slaved motor is completely unresponsive to gcode.
I have contacted Alex He through email with no response. I think I am going to nip this in the bud before I start experiencing more issues by replacing the motion card to something proven. I saw the post you made listing reputable cards, need to do a little bit of research. My only concern is that once I purchase and install a new board I'll experience the same issues if it is a mach3 problem.
The only thing I am confused about is why this is only occurring when trying to run gcode. I've triple checked my Mach3 settings but wanted others opinions in case I missed something, as that does happen more often than I'd like to admit. If anyone has any mach3 related suggestions I could try they will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks