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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: dareng on June 30, 2012, 01:52:18 PM

Title: Communication failure with mach 3
Post by: dareng on June 30, 2012, 01:52:18 PM
Last night I was working on my machine and everything worked well, this morning I turned everything on and it seems I have no communication to my breakout board, which is a sound logic supplied by Bob Campbell, charge pump won't activate to turn the drives on, and it does not acknowledge a signal from the limit switches, it seems like the program and or the computer not working together

I tested the breakout board per manual and everything seems to be working fine, the mach 3 program on computer seems to be working normal as always, I haven't a clue what's wrong.

Is there some way of testing to see if I am getting signals through the parallel port???   Thanks Darren
Title: Re: Communication failure with mach 3
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on July 01, 2012, 02:10:05 AM
Hi Darren,

If you are running XP or 2000 then this little application will show the state of your parallel port http://www.geekhideout.com/parmon.shtml

Tweakie.