I have a Taig DSLS 3000 mill with Mach-3 software and it is basically working. I added an extra parallel port interface
board so I have available extra inputs for home switches and general I-O.
Most of my problems are presumably operator related but here we go:
1. On the “Program Run Screen” there is an indicator: Green color= normal condition,
Yellow color= abnormal condition. It is continuously alternating between the two states about twice per second.
Everything works, I can run programs and it looks OK on the diaganostic page.
2. After successfully running a program the machine is disabled. It looks like the controller detected an out of sync
error with the shaft encoders or something. When I jog the machine it does not move and there are no error
messages on the screen. The DRO changes so it looks like Mach-3 is sending pulses to the controller.
Clicking “Reset” twice and all is fine again.
3. This might be related to the problem above: If it looses steps by going too fast or hitting limits, the controller
properly shuts down but I do not see an error message or indication that it happened.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
By the way, added extra parallel port shows up at an address of C400-C407 when A PCI card is used.
As a result most or the port monitoring and test programs do not work since they only expect the old
DOS address with just three characters, for example 278. Mach-3 works fine with the 4-character address.
This is also true when a parallel port PC card is used in a laptop.
Bertho