Hello,
I'm helping out a friend of mine to try to figure out what is wrong with his CNC machine.
It worked perfectly on a very old outdated machine and we decided that he should upgrade to a faster machine in which he could do some CAD work to then use the CNC.
But we ran in to a issue straight away. At the diagnostics page we can't see any reaction on the ports. And if i recall correctly then there should always be a signal on at least one port.
And when we press keys nothing happens in the diagnostics or with the motors.
Then i downloaded a program that let us send signals through the COM port and to the machine straight away. To start the spindle works perfectly but when I try to send a signal to make the motors move they just do a small jump (Not enough to move anything but they make a sound that they activate then stop right away)
We can see currents moving through the board (Measured up)
The pc is a windows 10 machine with a add on com port in a PCI slot.
The old pc were a windows XP with a integrated COM port.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
Do you have any idea on what it could be?
Do you have any suggestions or things we could try? (We are both new to CNC)
Do you need more information regarding this? Then please do tell and we will provide with anything you require to further help us out
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Looking forward for someone that could help us out.
/Jerry