I have been using MACH3 with my router that I built a few years ago with great success. Earlier this year I started on a plasma table and it is now all finished and I am setting it up. My controller is a Gecko G540 (same as the router), running MACH3 on a Dell desktop machine with Windows XP using the standard parallel port.
The problem I am having is that the motors are not responding to the pins that I have programmed. With all the correct motor pins chosen, I would expect the right-left arrow keys to operate the X axis, the up and down arrow keys to operate the Y axis, and the page up page down keys to operate the Z axis. However, the right left arrow keys cause the Z axis to move and the page up page down keys cause Y1 axis to move with the up down arrow keys cause the Y2 (A) axis to move. If I slave the A axis to Y1, the Y1 and Z axis move together. Here is what is really strange to me: this only happens in the Plasma profile. If I load the STDMillRouter profile, I can set everything up exactly the same and the motors respond perfectly.
I have checked all the basic stuff, motor wiring, printer cable, etc. I must be missing something in the programming but I haven't found it yet.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dale