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

« on: March 26, 2013, 11:43:04 AM »

Gary,

Could you not just connect red to red, black to black etc on the eaten cable then check it pin for pin ??

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 11:15:57 AM »

Hi Gary,

Sorry to say this but unless someone else can come up with any ideas of how to get the stepper motors to lock (enabled) with that board then I think it may be time to consider a better quality product (such as the Gecko G540) as your controller.

As said in my first post – many before you have tried to get these boards to work, without success.

It may be worth giving the board a thorough visual inspection, checking for poor solder joints or solder bridges even obviously missing components. Also check for damage such as a crack in the board causing possible broken tracks etc.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 10:57:04 AM »

This diagram is probably the best explanation http://www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/08/KL-4030WithC10.pdf

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 09:06:52 AM »

Hi Kris,

I moved your earlier post and replied here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,24098.0.html

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 08:27:29 AM »

Hi Gary,

I may have misunderstood one of your earlier posts when you said that M3 brings the board alive so as a last resort...

There is the possibility that Mach3 is not communicating with your parallel port.

1) Run the Mach3 “Driver Test.exe” which can be found in the Mach3 folder. How does that look ??

2) If you are using WinXP as your OS then Parmon  http://www.geekhideout.com/parmon.shtml can be used to test the outputs from your parallel port.

2a) Another alternative is connecting your multimeter between pin 25 and pin 4 of the parallel port and within Mach3 – Config / Ports & Pins / Output Signals set Enable 1 to Enabled, Port#1 Pin Number 4 then toggling Active Low / Active High should give the readings (approx.) 0Volts / 5Volts.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 06:34:31 AM »

As an update to my earlier post…

It is the actual pin numbers you are trying to find – If the pin number entered in Enable 1 does not lock the X axis motor (or any other motor) there is little point in trying that same pin number in any other Enable. Just move on to the next pin number.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 05:57:10 AM »

Hi Gary,

Good news that you have found 4.29 Volts on the LPT port.

Now the tedious bit starts (remember that successful fault finding requires you to be very methodical – take it one step at a time and only change one thing at a time).

I am making the assumption that your controller board does if fact work and that you have the 24 Volts ? applied to the board and everything else connected correctly.

The first thing is to get the stepper motors to ‘lock’ when the system is powered up. This appears to be related to Config / Ports & Pins / Output Signals / Enable 1 to Enable 4 settings. So try all output pin numbers (1 to 9, 14, 16 & 17)  both Active High and Active Low until you find the right combination to ‘lock’ the motors.

Once you have achieved this than I will suggest a possible next step in the procedure.

Tweakie.

This is what my little helper gets up to in his spare time.  

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

« on: March 26, 2013, 03:18:50 AM »

Hi Gary,

Your cable should be straight through, with all pins connected, pin1 to pin1, 2 to 2 etc.

Tweakie.

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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 26, 2013, 02:41:08 AM »

Hi Will,

I am pleased that you have the problem sorted. 

Tweakie.

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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.