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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: comet on December 12, 2018, 01:30:15 PM
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Hi just bought one of these off ebay, everything on the CD is in Chinese, can anyone point me to an english manual or set up instructions? ive got as far as loading the plugin and it isnt throwing up any errors. ive connected it within mach3 and the plugin control is there so im assuming so far so good. however not sure how to set up the ports? ive set up uc300's and smooth steppers so im not a novice!!
Regards
Tony
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Hi,
I see you've had no replies....it doesn't surprise me I don't know that anyone has been able to get these junk boards to work.
Do yourself a favour and get another SmoothStepper or UC300, as you know....they work as intended unlike Chinese rubbish.
Craig
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnwWurK4GEI&feature=youtu.be
maybe it helps
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Hey Craig thanks for that really helpful advice ,that was exactly what I was looking for!
Actually I worked it out myself, you just have to use the correct plugin,works a treat had one running 4 axis on a soak test for 48 hours not one problem. fantastic value at £20 a pop as opposed to £140 for a uc300 or£200 for a smooth stepper,
just ordered another 4 as they cant be at that price for much longer !
Merry Christmas
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:)
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Hi,
kool. post how you did it.....there are dozens of people out there who have this board and can't get them to work,
they would appreciate your help.
Craig
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having trouble up loading the RnR motion dll plugin file ive even tried changing it to .dxf for upload???
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Hi,
there are a limited number of file formats which can be attached. Also each file attached must have a unique name, so if someone loaded a file
of the same name three years ago.......It may be appropriate to lodge the file on the net somewhere and then link to it.
Its may well be the instructions of how you got it to work rather than the .dll file would be more valuable to others.
Just as a matter of interest now that you have got the board to work have you tried G31 probing?
Craig
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try to ZIP it
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try this:
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Looks good,
now a small description how to set it up, and then it is perfect.
Thank You Toni
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OK, that seems to have worked.
unzip and drop into your plugins folder. on startup connect to the RnR motion controller.
it seems to do every thing automatically.it makes no difference to the 4 motors what you put in the motor i/o table or in fact whether you have any ports switched on.
the only issue I had was that it put the jog speed at 100% which caused some confusion untill I worked that out!
I havent tested the switch i/o's as yet but I cant see why they shouldnt work .
Im not sure that video posted earlier is correct??
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Just thought these boards are common +5v so the pulse stream is triggered to ground, which to my mind at least is a better way of connecting.
As an aside for quickly checking beakout boards without setting up drivers and motors,use an earbud or small speaker ,i use a piezo transducer,
and connect the pulse output stream to your speaker,you will hear it buzzing at different frequencies (according to feed rate) if all is well.
just incse here is the xlm file i tested on, im running on windows 7
Tony