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Mach Discussion => FAQs => Topic started by: jghielme on October 18, 2010, 03:08:42 PM
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I have a Galil card 18x2, ICM 2900, and three Gecko g201's driven by Mach3.
The x axis, y axis, homing limits on x and y axis, and estop are working beautifully.
Now, I am working on the z axis and I am totally stumped. I cannot seem to get the motor to move physically, on the screen, or using plain old g code.
1. I enabled the z axis in ports and pins, step pin to 6, direction to 7
2. I played with settings of dir low active and step low active and it made no difference - no movement
3. I am using a motor and driver that worked great on the x axis which eliminates the motor and driver as potential culprits
4. confirmed that the stepper jumper was on the galil card dmc-1832
and still no physical movement on the x axis or numerical movement on the screen
What am I missing? My guess is that it is something simple but I have run out of things to test.
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Figured it out.
Within Mach3:
Goto Config - plugin control - double click the config button next to the @galil barker .... part
click on axis setup
Select z(c)
bingo the axis is active