Hi All, new to MACH3 & CNC control in general, so hoping I've just got something silly wrong here!
I've got a stepper motor (Bipolar) connected to a Parker XL25 driver, connected to my PC & MACH3.
The driver can operate in 2 modes, Step/Direction, or Step+/Step- mode.
wired for step/direction, I have ports 1&2 on the LPT connected to the corresponding step/dir ports on the driver, but although the motor powers on I get no motion.
Someone suggested that by switching to Step+/Step- mode (there is a DIP switch on the driver to do this) and just wiring the Step- & Dir - pins on the driver together it would work.
Now I get motion in one direction only (presumably caused by the inputs on the Step+ & Dir+ pins, but lacking any input on the Step- & Dir - pins)
Is it possible to configure MACH3 to operate in this Step+/Step- mode, or any trick to get the Step/Dir mode working?
Many thanks for any help - much appreciated!
Dave.