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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: ebc12451 on January 30, 2009, 08:43:56 PM

Title: Mach3 No movement from X Y Z
Post by: ebc12451 on January 30, 2009, 08:43:56 PM

Hello I'm new to cnc building. I need a lot of help lol. I have set up a controll board and three drivers for the stepper motors and all looks to be wired fine but when I goto test run with the motors hooked up but not installed for the mach3 mill nothing is happening. When I run them under mach3 plasma the X and Y work fine but not the Z any help so I can run under mach3 mill. Thx.

Title: Re: Mach3 No movement from X Y Z
Post by: Glenn on January 30, 2009, 08:54:18 PM

  Hi ebc12451,  in mach mill,    under config, - ports and pins,- motor tuning -- enable x,y,z
   see if that helps
  good luck, Glenn :)

Title: Re: Mach3 No movement from X Y Z
Post by: ebc12451 on January 30, 2009, 09:05:52 PM

Thx for the quick reply and yes under ports and pin / motor outputs are enabled and the step and drive pins are set to 2 and 3  4 and 5  6 and 7 the ports are set at 1

Title: Re: Mach3 No movement from X Y Z
Post by: ebc12451 on January 30, 2009, 09:14:23 PM

Glen thanks for the help but I just found out by trial and error that the dirlow active and the step low active had to be enabled it now seems to be working.

Title: Re: Mach3 No movement from X Y Z
Post by: Glenn on January 31, 2009, 04:57:57 PM

ebc12451,
  Good ol' trial and error to the rescue! Glad you are up and running!
    Glenn