You are correct! My apologies. There are four dip switches. Each is a bank of switches numbered 1 to 6. On each bank, the numbers 2 and 6 are set to off. The rest are set to on. Hope this helps.

Adrian

I need to know what these represent, do you have a manual? Do you know what make of drives they are?
Hood

Aha, yes I do. It is a Toshiba TB6560. I found a data sheet for it on ebay. I have attached it to this message.

Adrian

Afraid that is the data sheet for the actual TB6560 chip, it is the infor on the complete drives that you need as they incorporate the dip switch settings.
Did you not get a manual when you bought the drive? Do you have a link to the site you bought the drive from?
Hood

I did a bit of searching and found one site that mentions the dip switches, it would seem you have it set to half stepping. That would mean you need 400 pulses to move the motor 1 revolution so as 1 rev of motor is 5mm then your steps per unit will be 400/5=80 Try that and see if it helps.
Hood

Thanks for all your efforts Hood. Unfortunately, it doesn't work yet. Personally, I feel that it must have something to do with pin allocations or something because I just do not quite understand what goes on there. For example, under "ports and pins" what does "Motor outputs" really mean? I thought that motors would only have inputs, not outputs. I don't really know what all the other columns in this table are.

At the moment I am really not too worried about steps per unit etc. Once I get the motors moving I will worry about getting them to move the correct amount.

Regards,
Adrian

Steps per unit are important even for testing as you may be sending 10times too many and the motors cant respond and hence stall.

They are Outputs because they are from Mach so Mach is outputting steps.

Did you get any documentation at all with these drives?
Hood

No, I am afraid not. I guess I should now something about what is connected to the output pins of the drive. perhaps I should try and contact the supplier for the info?

Its not an easy task setting up drives when you have no information on them as its all trial and error and for someone who is new to things I would say impossible.
Hood

If you put a picture of the board I may have a sheet for it