I'm newbie in the San Francisco Bay Area. My hobby is building hot rods and I have built a three axis table for cutting wood, aluminum (slowly) using a router and cutting metal with a plasma cutter.
I am having trouble figuring how to post on this site so I'll post my question here:
My problem is with the plasma---It seems the PLASMA CONFUSES MACH 3?


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The router (Mill) function works well. X,Y and Z axis work perfectly.
We are having real problems getting the PLASMA function working.
It seems to work fine in the demo mode with the parallel driver unloaded. When we hook up the driver, the X axis is fine but the Y axis drives the Z motor and the Z control does not work.
We are using a WIN 2000 computer.
My associate has a full function, licensed copy of Mach 3 and when he tries to run his machine in the Plasma mode, he has the same issue.
IS IT DRIVER RELATED? IS THERE A FIX?
HELP!!!!!!!!!!
I want to buy the full program and I have some urgent needs for it to work----but it has to work.