Good evening everyone
i am pleased yet distraught with my plasma table. I have made progress: mach 3 communication to table is good. I have wired my motors to the drivers properly. I have went thru my wiring 3 times trying to find any bad connections as much of my research points to this being my issues and dont believe that is my issue anymore. fingers crossed. The current issues are motors will respond to keys properly x y and z testing each direction a couple times. next thing some keys are correct but some keys nothing happens or a wrong motor or multiple wrong motor spin:like z up will run 1 motor from each axis, try a different key it is correct, next key proper motor stutters or tries to move, next key will be correct, then the next couple are wrong. next time thru the left right up down page up and page down i get different results. then i run the road runner test dxf file, motors run fine seem to turn back and forth smoothly. the z motor seems to be travelling in 1 direction fairly regularly. program completes i try the keys again: some work properly some dont.
I install the z axis motor set torch in the middle of it set of motion, try the keys and again keys are random, some work properly and some dont. i run the dfx roadrunner file, motors sound good spin smoothly about half way thru the process i have to stop the program as the z axis has hit the top of its movement. I remove the motor and try the z axis controls as these ones have typically not worked, and they work well motor spins proper direction upon corresponding key, but the others well 3 of 4 dont work properly. At 1 point the motors all responded smoothly to 1 direction but the other was stuttered and noisy
I am thinking this is an issue with the mach3 set up as the wiring is right as far as i can see. i took pictures of the drivers and breakout board and of several config pages. It seems i have some learning to do on getting pictures from phone to cpu. they transfered but did not save. just another day in my wonderful life. I will try load pictures to cpu in the morning and get them on the forum, if they are needed
any help would be greatly appreciated