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General Mach Discussion / Re: Trouble Getting Started
« on: April 17, 2007, 07:07:14 PM »
Well. I figured out what the problem was.  The pulse lengths for the Step and Directions were too low.  The stepper driver board is opto-isolated, so I guess that the pulses need to be longer to get the signals to the motors.  Everything is working fine now!!  Is there a way to make the pulses longer than 25 us??

Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions on this sticky situation!!  GO MACH3! 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Trouble Getting Started
« on: April 13, 2007, 03:26:03 PM »
The motor will not jog.  The X axis on screen position does change, but the motor is not responding.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Trouble Getting Started
« on: April 13, 2007, 02:58:53 PM »
I checked the cable and it is straight through.  I've attached my Mach3Mill.xml file which is under C://Mach3 on my computer.

Thanks for your help.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Trouble Getting Started
« on: April 13, 2007, 12:04:08 PM »
I've got the X axis motor tuned on in 'motor outputs'.  But the on screen "Port 1 Pins current state" LEDs are still not turning on and off like I think they should during a move command.  I've attached a screen shot of my printer config.  0x378 is the address in the Port Setup and Axis selection Port #1 Port Address.

I'm using a Mechatronics Bi-Polar 2 axis Micro Step Motor Driver.  It is powered up fine and is holding the stepper in position; It is just not recieving step and direction inputs.

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General Mach Discussion / Trouble Getting Started
« on: April 12, 2007, 07:06:45 PM »
Hi.
So I just downloaded the Mach3 VersionR2.00.061.exe and bought the license file.  I've hooked up a stepper and stepper driver, but it seems that I am getting nothing out of the Mach3.  I've issued a simple G1 X1 command, but when I go to the diagnotstics page, none of the Port 1 pins light up.  Its like I'm in permanent dry run mode.  I went through the config of ports and pins and set the port address to 0x378 and enabled port #1.  I only have the X axis enabled with Step Pin# 3 and Dir Pin#2. Step Port and Dir Port are both set at 1.

Does anyone know what the problem would be?  I'm using Microsoft Windows XP Profesional Version 2002 Service Pack 1.

Thanks,
Drew

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