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General Mach Discussion / Re: Basic wiring diagram from LPT port to stepper driver?

« on: April 06, 2014, 06:45:24 AM »

Davek, thanks for your warnings! I have hugely overdimensioned my steppers and drivers for my purpose, so i hope they will be fine!

thanks again,
andy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Basic wiring diagram from LPT port to stepper driver?

« on: April 05, 2014, 02:36:28 PM »

He Guys,

Thanks for the clarifiations!

@Davek0794:
I will order the breakout board today. Thought about etching it myself, however i found some nice boards using optocoupling for isolation.

@Hood:
Typos... the last thing i would have thought about. Well, i guess i got what i payed for (greeting to China). I might consider bying 'made in Germany' next time.

Best regards,
andy

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General Mach Discussion / Basic wiring diagram from LPT port to stepper driver?

« on: April 05, 2014, 12:33:57 PM »

Hi!

Being completely new to cnc and steppers in general, i have a very basic question which i have not found answered elsewhere (even after extensive searching).

I have wired a stepper motor and driver to a power supply as seen in the following picture:



Now i am trying to define in Mach3 which pins of the LPT port


are supposed to belong to the x axis:




In this case, the first and second pin of the LPT port are my "step pin" resp. "dir Pin".

How do i connect those pins to the driver?

My driver http://www.ebay.de/itm/CNC-Router-Single-Axis-TB6560-3-5A-2-Phase-Stepper-Motor-Driver-Board-Controller-/261160006615 has six pins still available:

EN+
EN-
DUR
DIR+
PUL-
PUL+

So, how do i connect those? Is there any basic wiing or scematic?

Yeah i know i must sound kinda stupid, as this question is probably trivial to most of you. However, i am totally lost. Please help me out!


Best regards,
Andy