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General Mach Discussion / Newbie and having teething probs
« on: December 21, 2009, 03:26:29 PM »
Hi guys
I have been fascinated by cnc machinery for a long time and now that they are somewhat affordable I intend to build myself one which will handle a 8 by 4 sheet of plywood.
But before running I want to walk a while so I got myself a small kit so that I can work on it in the warm spare bedroom rather than in a draughty workshop.
It is from buildyourcnc.com I got it from a guy who got it and then tired of it.
My intention is to build it up and use it to cut the parts for my bigger one.
I have put it all together and yesterday I did the electrics and hooked it up to a PC with mach3 installed.
As soon as I plugged it in the motors "tensed" and the light came on in the control board and everything seemed ok, except that nothing moves.
I believe that I have configured mach3 properly and I have triple checked the wiring.
I installed a port monitor which tells me that the port is active when I use the scroll buttons.
I checked some of the pins with a volt meter but they show 5 volts whether red or green on the monitor.
I hope someone can help me with this as this is my first experience of trying to control something by PC
br22
I have been fascinated by cnc machinery for a long time and now that they are somewhat affordable I intend to build myself one which will handle a 8 by 4 sheet of plywood.
But before running I want to walk a while so I got myself a small kit so that I can work on it in the warm spare bedroom rather than in a draughty workshop.
It is from buildyourcnc.com I got it from a guy who got it and then tired of it.
My intention is to build it up and use it to cut the parts for my bigger one.
I have put it all together and yesterday I did the electrics and hooked it up to a PC with mach3 installed.
As soon as I plugged it in the motors "tensed" and the light came on in the control board and everything seemed ok, except that nothing moves.
I believe that I have configured mach3 properly and I have triple checked the wiring.
I installed a port monitor which tells me that the port is active when I use the scroll buttons.
I checked some of the pins with a volt meter but they show 5 volts whether red or green on the monitor.
I hope someone can help me with this as this is my first experience of trying to control something by PC
br22