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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: First set up problems with on board and pci parallel port.

« on: March 25, 2013, 01:37:33 PM »

Hi Will,

Welcome to the forum.

As your are using WinXP, Parmon http://www.geekhideout.com/parmon.shtml will show the states of your parallel port pins, if this is any help.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Anyone have this happen to a design?

« on: March 25, 2013, 12:13:43 PM »

Hi Carl,

Must admit that I have not seen that before.

If you could attach the .tap file I would be interested to see it.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Installing two Mach3 versions - to run one or the other

« on: March 25, 2013, 12:06:31 PM »

Hi John,

I don’t know if this is any help but I run the same installation of Mach3 in a number of different ways, each with a different configuration (Port and Pin settings etc).

All I do is create a new profile (one with a different .xml file) and then add the shortcut for the new profile (appropriately named) to my desktop.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie with KL-4030 1st time testing problems

« on: March 25, 2013, 11:45:45 AM »

Hi Kris,

Welcome to the forum.

Check if you have 5V & EN (on the C10) and CW & CP+ (on the KL-4030) all connected to +5 Volts.

Also that you have a common GND connection between GND (on the C10) and GND (on the KL-4030).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie with TB6560 1st time testing problems

« on: March 25, 2013, 07:23:32 AM »

Hi Gary,

The stepper motors should lock when power is applied with Mach3 running and the CNC connected to the PC.

What I have here for the step / direction (blue board) Mach3 configuration is as follows;

Xaxis  Step16  Dir1
Yaxis  Step14  Dir7
Zaxis  Step3   Dir6
Aaxis  Step9  Dir8

Enable1  Pin4
Enable2  Pin17
Enable3  Pin5
Enable4  Pin5

Output#1 Pin2

Does this match up with the instruction you have been supplied ??

Tweakie.

(As Jim has pointed out there are so many variants of pin connections with these boards and the suppliers instructions are often incorrect so they can be difficult to get going).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie with TB6560 1st time testing problems

« on: March 25, 2013, 04:03:54 AM »

Hi Gary,

Sorry, I did not make it clear in my earlier posts – when I referred to “motors locking” I should have said “stepper motors locking” - the axes driving motors (my bad).

Still it is good news that the M3 command operates the spindle motor.

One more question – what colour is your TB6560 controller board ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New type Mach3 conversational PAGE

« on: March 25, 2013, 03:35:11 AM »

Nice work Terry. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie with TB6560 1st time testing problems

« on: March 24, 2013, 12:03:07 PM »

Hi Gary,

When the CNC machine is disconnected from power the motors can easily be rotated by hand. When the CNC machine is powered up the motors should lock and cannot easily be rotated by hand.

After a fresh start and without Mach3 running - using a multimeter measure between pin25 and each of the other pins, in turn, on your PC’s parallel port until you find one that has a voltage present. Ideally the voltage you should find will be approx 5 Volts. If  you are unable to find a voltage then start Mach3 and try again.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie with TB6560 1st time testing problems

« on: March 24, 2013, 08:58:15 AM »

Hi Gary,

Many, before you, have had unresolved problems with the TB66560 boards and this is perhaps not the best board for you to be starting out with, however...

Perhaps you could try the supplied .xml file and see if this works (you can always go back to your own manually entered settings).

Do the motors lock when power is applied ??

Does your PC have the 5 Volt TTL standard for it's LPT parallel port or is it the 3.3 Volt TTL standard ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Faster output

« on: March 23, 2013, 10:01:00 AM »

I am really pleased that you have got it working OK.

This is, I think, another classic example of Mr Hood's brilliance of knowledge and determination to help others.

Tweakie.