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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 set up for clearpath motors and c62 BOB with Ethernet SmoothStepper
« on: July 06, 2018, 12:14:18 PM »
I am having trouble configuring Mach3 to work with my clearpath motors while using the SCHP feature on my c62 board.
The first problem is that the only way to enable the motors is through a hardware enable feature found on the RJ45 to clearpath driver cable converter bought from CNC4PC.com. This hardware enable setting causes the motors to always be enabled and thus i lose the safety features built into the motors in the event of a crash. The preferred method would be the software enable function on the cable converter which allows me to enable and disable the motors from Mach3. I believe there is a setting in mach 3 that would solve this problem but i cannot seem to find it.
My second problem is the SCHP feature. I have enabled the dip in the c62 board and configured it in Mach3 but for some reason the c62 board just keeps cycling from standby to ready every 5 seconds.
Here is a video i uploaded to youtube: https://youtu.be/cgBtevyujE8
Thank you for the help
The first problem is that the only way to enable the motors is through a hardware enable feature found on the RJ45 to clearpath driver cable converter bought from CNC4PC.com. This hardware enable setting causes the motors to always be enabled and thus i lose the safety features built into the motors in the event of a crash. The preferred method would be the software enable function on the cable converter which allows me to enable and disable the motors from Mach3. I believe there is a setting in mach 3 that would solve this problem but i cannot seem to find it.
My second problem is the SCHP feature. I have enabled the dip in the c62 board and configured it in Mach3 but for some reason the c62 board just keeps cycling from standby to ready every 5 seconds.
Here is a video i uploaded to youtube: https://youtu.be/cgBtevyujE8
Thank you for the help