I am having problems trying to connect up a Pokeys 57CNC board to Mach 4. I previously had mach3 and ran directly from the parallel port to my Gecko G540 controller. I have a newer Win10 64bit computer and I am using Ethernet to talk to the Pokeys board. It connects and talks just fine. I made a IDC to DB25 adapter cable and then plug in my old parallel port cable to it to go to my Gecko G540. I verified that all pins had continuity on my adapter.
What is confusing me is how to just talk to the motors and make them move. The Pokeys tech support says that all the IDC/DB25 pins are fixed mapped and that I dont have to map them. So what do I do in Mach 4 to make it work? I have enabled motors X,Y,Z,A to motors 0,1,2,3 and set their step parameters the same as was in Mach 3. Do I need to go into "outputs" and define anything for things like "Spindle On", "Jog X++" etc.
I dont have a charge pump so that is disabled on the G540 and is not Enabled in the Mach 4 config.
I have tried to follow what Pokeys published for mach 4 setup but it does not cover setting mach 4 up. It stops at that point.
I would appreciate any help from someone who has connected up a Pokeys 57CNC board before.
Thanks
Scott