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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 13, 2019, 05:04:16 PM »

Please do not shoot the messenger

But have you set up the motors in Mach4 control config not the ESS,
Motor page
Motor check box clicked ?
Motor name clicked and turned blue ?
Required fields fill in ?
Apply
Ok

Exit Mach and restart

Yep both step and dir LED's light correctly.

Hi,
what is the make and model of the driver?

Craig

Sadly, the so called Enable circuit on most stepper drivers is actually a disable input used to remove torque from a powered motor so that it can be turned by hand. Leaving ENA+ and ENA- not connected is common as they are not usually needed.

Thanks Steve,

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 13, 2019, 05:02:08 PM »

Please do not shoot the messenger

But have you set up the motors in Mach4 control config not the ESS,
Motor page
Motor check box clicked ?
Motor name clicked and turned blue ?
Required fields fill in ?
Apply
Ok

Exit Mach and restart

Yep both step and dir LED's light correctly.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 13, 2019, 08:48:07 AM »

Hi,
have you determined whether the step LEDs are operating?

If both the step and direction LEDs are operating then its your steppers or drivers, the ESS and C11 MUST BE OK otherwise
you would not get the LEDs switching.

Double check your enable to each driver.

Craig

Hi Craig, firstly, thanks for your patience with me. It's very frustrating I know.
I have attached a pic showing that Motors 1,2&3 are enable but I'm confused with the 'Pull down menu' as shown.
Also a pic of my MSS, Thre is a ENA+ and ENA- pin but they have never been used previously ?
I'm going to revert to Mach3 with no ESS just to checkout the C11 and MSS Driver with stepper. I'll let you know the result.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 12, 2019, 07:05:55 PM »

Hi Craig,
The LED's are turning on and off, this can be seen clearly as I jog left and right.
I tried two different drives and two new steppers. Still no movement.
Tomorrow I will hook up my Mach3 setup which does not use the ESS and I'll just make sure all is OK with the C11 and the drivers+steppers.

George

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 12, 2019, 06:21:05 PM »

The LEDS on the output go on and off with Left and right arrow keys (They follow)
I have 2 more pictures for you to look at.
Seems like I cant set the outputs for x y & Z
Maybe there's a clue here.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 12, 2019, 05:18:45 PM »

Pins and output signals are all set Craig,

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 12, 2019, 03:45:24 PM »

Correction Craig.
My motor was indeed connected to pins 2(step) &3(dir)
Still  no motor move but I can confirm the following.
All outputs ere enabled, this is done by jumping pin Ena pin to 5V. The Output enable status LED is 'lit'
The C11 has 2 5Vdc supplies. First is taken from the PC USB port and the second is by a separate external supply.
The Ess is not used to power the C11. Pin 26 Jumpers are off.
The C11 On board charge pump is disabled.
In Control Config, Axis mapping for X Y & Z is enabled.
In Control Config (Input Signals) Jogging for all 3 Axis is set (Input selected to keyboard)
In Ess config Port 1 pins 2 to 9 are set for (X step X dir) (y step y dir) (z step z dir)
In Ess config Input Signals, nothing is set here
In Ess config Homing, nothing is set here
In jog mode the DRO's follow for all 3 axis. The output staus LED's allocated for each of the Step & Dir signals all illuminate during jogging.
Still no motor movement. The Motors 'Lock' and cannot be turned by hand!
Now I'm really scratching my head ?  What am I missing ??
 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 11, 2019, 04:59:38 PM »

Sorry Craig, no movement on my test setup, see pic.
I have 48Vdc to my Stepper driver. X Axis
Step and Dir are connected to Port1, pins 1&2
The parallell port marked 'PC' is connected to Port1 of the ESS
I have the ESS supplying 5Vdc to the C11
I have a second(Seperate) 5Vdc to the C11
So all voltages look good.

OK, when I do a manual jog using the left and right arrows, the DRO's follow but there's no movement on the stepper ??

I have set up the motor tuning and this looks OK. I used the same parameters that I had with MACH3

Looks like my my motor outputs (Port1, 1&2)are not enabled somehow. ??

So where's this numpy going wrong ??

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 11, 2019, 09:22:36 AM »

Thanks Craig,
I see now that Configure Control and Cofigure Plugin is different.

Using configure Plugin I see that quite a few settings such as step dir etc have already been made.

I take it then that I don't use the drop down menu 'Configure Control' ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Hook up Schematic help

« on: August 11, 2019, 06:18:44 AM »

Hi Craig, I'm now attempting to configure my ESS,
I'm at the Ports and pins stage.
Previously I had Ports 10 , 11 & 13 on my C11 configured as my signal lines to drive my my x, y, & z motors
Now with the ESS plugged in to my C11 and I enable mapping then select ESS as my device I find that my port numbers do not appear in the drop down list ?

Am I getting it all wrong!! do I no longer use the ports on my C11 board ??
I thought I would have seen the C11 in the drop down menu (Output name)

Cheers
George.