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Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2010, 06:42:41 PM »
Where did you get the xml from?
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Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2010, 06:57:54 PM »
You say that SOME things work. I woulld look at the setup info in mach and write down the pins used for the things that work. That should leave a short list of avalable pins to use for the spindle relays.

Just a thought, (;-) TP
Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2010, 07:21:00 PM »
Hi Hood and BR549,
there is a taig specific .xml in the mach3 ftp download area, there is also on supplied by Lester caine and I am now going to test one supplied by taig themselves (microproto). If that does not work I will open up the control box and start working back from there with a view to understanding the pin and relay setup.. (wanted to avoid that if someone had already done it..)

cheers,
St.john

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Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2010, 05:11:07 AM »
St, John,

Make sure you're downloading the correct xml as I believe there's quite a difference between xml's for the Taig 2000 and the Taig DSLS 3000 systems.

I'm not at all familiar with the 2000 system but it is not the same controller setup at all as the 3000 and with the 2000, I think you need some sort of "pulse- adapter" to run the 2000 with Mach 3. Don't quote me on that, but I'm remembering something to that effect  ;)

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Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2010, 11:16:31 AM »
Hi,
I have this all functioning now. The enclose needed the 'run' switch to be set on then it all appears to work. I will play with it now and see how it performs.

many thanks,
St.john
Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2023, 02:05:05 PM »
Hi all, new to mach3. I am having trouble setting up mach3 to run a taig mill. I have downloaded the suggested xml file from this discussion, but where do I place the xml file? thanks.

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Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2023, 03:07:18 AM »
Hi all, new to mach3. I am having trouble setting up mach3 to run a taig mill. I have downloaded the suggested xml file from this discussion, but where do I place the xml file? thanks.

The .xml file is placed in your Mach3 folder.

Tweakie.
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Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2023, 05:06:25 AM »
Hi all, new to mach3. I am having trouble setting up mach3 to run a taig mill. I have downloaded the suggested xml file from this discussion, but where do I place the xml file? thanks.

The .xml file is placed in your Mach3 folder.

Tweakie.

Oh thats simple enough then! Thank you. Was looking for an option in the menus to import one.

I recently had my mach3 pc hard drive die on me so I set up another old pc to run mach3 and fitted my parallel port from the old machine into the "new" one. Now I am unable to get the machine axis to move even though the mach3 DRO shows movement.

I am currently using an old mechatronics bi-polar micro stepper driver and today I think I have found the correct information for the pinout number for each axis. I will see if I can get mach3 to talk to the machine using that information today. I even bought a new mach3 license yesterday as I was sure everything would work but instead ran into lots of problems. Lets see how today pans out.  :)
Re: Setting up the taig cnc micromill 2000 to work with mach3
« Reply #18 on: September 06, 2023, 05:41:02 AM »
Nope! no joy with getting any axis to move. I think I am out of options now and tried everything I can think of including days of research looking for ideas. It seems that my time with mach3 is up  :-\