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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Bobo on May 24, 2006, 09:20:12 AM

Title: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Bobo on May 24, 2006, 09:20:12 AM: I'm still having problems trying to activate a relay to turn on/off my plasma torch. I have the relay hooked up to the out 1 terminals on the breakout board from Campbell designs and I was trying to activate it with the spindle toggle button on the Diagnostics page with no success. When I hit the flood and mist buttons the respective lights glow on the Diagnostics page but still did not activate the outputs on the breakout board for output 1, 2 or 3.

Thanks in advance for any insight.
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Brian Barker on May 24, 2006, 10:17:01 AM: Did you set the ports and pins?
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Bobo on May 24, 2006, 04:23:01 PM: I set the spindle output device to output 1 and uncheck the not used box, I left spindle axis enabled and PWM control unchecked for the port setup and have Output #1 set to port 1 and pin 1.
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Brian Barker on May 24, 2006, 07:24:46 PM: Could you please post your XML so I can have a look at it.

Thank you
Brian
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Bobo on May 25, 2006, 08:07:56 AM: Here is my Profile.
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Brian Barker on May 25, 2006, 11:22:36 AM: Well it looks like it is turning on... Is there a setting on the board that is not right? also swap the pins 1 and 16 in the software and see if you can get it to work...
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Bobo on May 26, 2006, 11:16:20 PM: OK.. I started over again with Mach 3 and everything is working fine now. Thanks for your help.
Title: Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.
Post by: Brian Barker on May 27, 2006, 12:25:52 AM: Nice! 8)