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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pci express

« on: October 01, 2008, 09:04:03 PM »

yes it's a parallel port.. just a normal db25 printer port.  Only difference is that it's run from pci express.  If anyone knows I would appreciate it before I make my purchase. thanks again

Edited to show the card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815283006

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General Mach Discussion / Pci express

« on: October 01, 2008, 06:07:27 PM »

just wondering if i would have any problems running a pci express 25 pin serial port?  The new computer only has PCI-e and I can pick up a card for cheap.  THANKS 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 27, 2006, 06:27:00 PM »

right now my  i have:

    Step     Dir
X     8       9

Y     4      5

Z     2       3

A     6       7

When i Jog X my Z moves
when I jog Z my A moves
when i jogY my Y moves
when i jog A my Xmoves

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 24, 2006, 02:47:38 AM »

yes and all the pin numbers stayed where i put them on the restart.  It doesnt make sense to me why it didn't affect the proper axis.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 23, 2006, 10:22:17 PM »

well I changed those pins and saved it and restarted mach but I still have the wrong axis moving.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 23, 2006, 10:07:41 PM »

that makes sense  thanks i'll try it

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 23, 2006, 08:10:17 PM »

THANK YOU!  I did have that checked.  I can control the Axises seperately now... however

When I move my Z axis my A moves
When I move my A axis my X moves
When I move my X axis my Z moves
Y axis works just fine

Could the cables be labels wrong? or another setting I'm missing?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 23, 2006, 03:29:46 PM »

The Step and Dir pulse were set on 5.

I pulled the cover off my Xylotex driver box... The printer cable plugs in on the inside of the box to the Xylotex board ("through wire tape") so I can only assume that the wiring from the plug to the board is correct and also the the cable is correct since it came with the Xylotex box plugged in from the inside.

The machine was said to be tested although I have no idea what the test involved.

I am I looking at the my printer port being the problem now or is there something else that could be causing this?
The computer is a dell P4 3.X GHz HT, 800MHz front side bus, 1 gig ram ( I think)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 20, 2006, 02:06:50 PM »

Thanks for the reply.  I have those set right.  There must be something else that's causing it.  I tried to run the pocket cutting wizard and my Z axis moved from what I can tell right but my rotary table that shouldn't have even been running was going crazy back and forth and every once in awhile the x axis would jerk.  I'm just missing something.

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General Mach Discussion / Possible wrong settings? or hardware?

« on: September 20, 2006, 11:04:38 AM »

I just purchased a new Taig cnc mill with 430 super nema steppers.  I'm using the Xylotex driver for control... so now onto my issue that's either with settings in Mach3 or something in my Xylotex hardware.  When I jog the X axis my Z axis moves along with my A axis (rotary table) and when I jog my Z axis my X and Y axis moves.  Nothing happens when I try to jog my Y and A axis.

I'm new with Mach3 and very green with CNC control so any help would be appriciated.  THANKS!