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General Mach Discussion / Minitech Mill2
« on: November 02, 2007, 08:00:07 PM »
I'm a newbee trying to set-up a mill2 to run. Does anybody have experience with one of these? My motors power up an lock in place when the power is turned on. The parallel cable has been checked and there are no rerouted wires. I'm using a laptop with XP but the output looks to be about 4.74 V on each pin that has power. When jogging the software it seems as if my pins 678 change but I don't see pulsing or anything that I can correlate to a specific axis. It seems like the 10-14 and 15 pins may always be on. The biggest question is what pins do I really need to use for a Mill2? I can't get ahold of anyone at minitech. Does anyone know what the serial port on the control box are for? I'm assuming the lpt port is what I should be using for control, and the serial port is for signals to the pc?
I have a lpt dongle that came with the computer that seems to have one pin rerouted but I'm not sure what I use it for?
Any comments or information would be a big help!, Thanks, Todd
I have a lpt dongle that came with the computer that seems to have one pin rerouted but I'm not sure what I use it for?
Any comments or information would be a big help!, Thanks, Todd