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General Mach Discussion / Re: No Y axis movement Easy Loader Plasma table

« on: February 09, 2012, 05:57:00 PM »

I noted when I looked at the drivers, that the Y driver was connected to the 6 and 7 block.  So, since it was not working, tried moving the 4 and 5 terminal block and now it works!  So whomever set this up, did it in-correctly.

Thanks for the help. Without the clue to try using expected pins, I would not have tried switching.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No Y axis movement Easy Loader Plasma table

« on: February 09, 2012, 02:08:00 PM »

I may need a little help in identifying what BOB pins 2 & 3 are.  Sorry.

When I first started troubleshooting this,  the driver  for the Y axis, did not show a lit "clock" LED.  One the recommendation of the vendor, and after testing the Y axis motor on the X driver, we replaced the Y driver.   Now the Power and Clock are lit on both the X and Y drivers.

I have attached photos of the Y Driver before replacement.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No Y axis movement Easy Loader Plasma table

« on: February 09, 2012, 09:34:03 AM »

See attached profile

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No Y axis movement Easy Loader Plasma table

« on: February 08, 2012, 06:30:22 PM »

Trying to attach our .xml profile and do not seem to be able to get the reply to post?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No Y axis movement Easy Loader Plasma table

« on: February 08, 2012, 06:28:11 PM »

 One question, the system we are running this on has an intergrated video card. The system requirements state:

"Non-integrated Video Card with 32MB RAM"

Could this be part of our problem?

Cheers and thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / No Y axis movement Easy Loader Plasma table

« on: February 08, 2012, 01:52:08 PM »

Newbie question
Our school has a Easy Loader CNC Plasma table. Blue Series, 4x8. Currently we have no good documentation on the set up of this table as it relates to the Mach 3 software.  Currently we can run the X axis no problem, but have no movement on the Y axis. I did check the Y axis motor by connecting to the X axis driver, and that works fine, proving the motor is working correctly. I have been testing the motors by using manual operations within the Mach 3 software.   This system is connected to a Windows XP system with a parallel cable. I have tried different cables with no change in function. I have tried toggling various settings, one at a time, in the configuration with no change. I did the automatic set up of the limit switches for both X and Y and that seem to work fine.
I am looking for suggestions as to what to try next, and/or setup information for Mach 3 and our table, so I know that is configured correctly.

Thank you for any assistance. The school has had this table for 4 years and it appears it has never worked correctly.