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FAQs / OK, I'm stumped!!
« on: December 02, 2016, 05:07:28 PM »
Built a Blacktoe 4x8 CNC router in 2009. Got it 99% done, then life intervened. FINALLY, I'm back to it.
Had it working fine under Mach 3. Then decided that I needed to install an Xbox 360 controller to move the axes.
In the ensuing years, my old XP computer lost it, and I replaced it with a Dell Optiplex 780 running Windows 7
Home Premium, 32 bit OS. Loaded Mach 3, got the Xbox plugin (schilling) working FINALLY, and actually had all
three axes working perfectly, ready to load GCode and make sawdust!
So I turned it off, went to sleep very proud of myself. Turned it on the next day, Mach is running perfectly except for one
problem: motors don't turn. I've torn out what little hair I have left trying to figure it out. Gone through the setup and troubleshooting
videos, checked and re-checked all the settings - no joy. Heck, I even read the manual!!
When I go to the diagnostic screen, all the LEDs are OK, but I only have one lit up for the parallel port. It's the seventh on the top (from the
left), and it's my eSTop (port 1, pin 10). Can't get any of the others to even blink. Moving the Xbox controller, or using the jog buttons, axes
counters work perfectly. Just no indication on the LEDs that the LPT has any activity.
I'm hoping this is something really, really simple in some setting I can't find. I'm finally throwing in the towel and pleading for help!!
Thanks in advance!!
Dave
Had it working fine under Mach 3. Then decided that I needed to install an Xbox 360 controller to move the axes.
In the ensuing years, my old XP computer lost it, and I replaced it with a Dell Optiplex 780 running Windows 7
Home Premium, 32 bit OS. Loaded Mach 3, got the Xbox plugin (schilling) working FINALLY, and actually had all
three axes working perfectly, ready to load GCode and make sawdust!
So I turned it off, went to sleep very proud of myself. Turned it on the next day, Mach is running perfectly except for one
problem: motors don't turn. I've torn out what little hair I have left trying to figure it out. Gone through the setup and troubleshooting
videos, checked and re-checked all the settings - no joy. Heck, I even read the manual!!
When I go to the diagnostic screen, all the LEDs are OK, but I only have one lit up for the parallel port. It's the seventh on the top (from the
left), and it's my eSTop (port 1, pin 10). Can't get any of the others to even blink. Moving the Xbox controller, or using the jog buttons, axes
counters work perfectly. Just no indication on the LEDs that the LPT has any activity.
I'm hoping this is something really, really simple in some setting I can't find. I'm finally throwing in the towel and pleading for help!!
Thanks in advance!!
Dave