Tiddy CNC.

[EddyCurrent]

Tony,

http://www.leadshine.com/Download.aspx?Type=software

This is my cable, it's a USB to serial converter then a short length of cable cut from an old phone with the correct plug already fitted.
I used default settings for everything else.

Pinout details for cable http://www.leadshine.com/UploadFile/...munication.pdf





If you plug it all in then on your PC go to, Settings - System - Device Manager, you will see if it's connected and which COM port number it has. In my case it's showing the USB to serial converter on COM10


As you can see I get an error when trying to read from the drive, this has always been the case with my system ( Windows XP ) and I've never followed it up, but I might now.


To be honest I would just as soon use the DIP switch 4 method as described in the manual , where you quickly switch it twice and the drive will set itself up.

[JAZZCNC]

To be honest I would just as soon use the DIP switch 4 method as described in the manual , where you quickly switch it twice and the drive will set itself up.

Nah it's too hit n miss and you never know if you've done it fast enough, software is 100%. Also you can set the amp's for the motors exactly.

For what its worth I do get a read from the drives so I know that serial comms are working but every time I try something interesting in ProTune it says in effect comms dropped.

When you say try something interesting expalin what exactly your doing and what's happening.?

The fact your reading the drive means it's working. There is a quirk in protune Like eddy showed where trying to read or write to memory doesn't work, I'm not exactly usre which it is and I'm not at my setup laptop to check Protune but it gives a COM error.? . . . .I think if you click Write to Ram you get COM error but write to EEprom you don't.?

[EddyCurrent]

Nah it's too hit n miss and you never know if you've done it fast enough, software is 100%. Also you can set the amp's for the motors exactly.

Every time I use the 'switch 4 method' I can hear the stepper motor 'singing' while it goes through the routine.

I think if you click Write to Ram you get COM error but write to EEprom you don't.?

I always get a pop up message telling me to do a 'Read' before I can do a 'Write'

[JAZZCNC]

Every time I use the 'switch 4 method' I can hear the stepper motor 'singing' while it goes through the routine.

Yes maybe does energise stepper but doesn't mean it's tuned correctly and still it doesn't set the Amps. Software is much better and takes any doubt away.
Also with a little tweaking you can get motors running much smoother than the autotune does.

I always get a pop up message telling me to do a 'Read' before I can do a 'Write'

Well yes suppose that makes sense really because you would want to read the drive for it's current settings before changing them.
It's been a few weeks since I've used Protune as I've been using EM806 drives lately which have supaceeded the AM882 and the software is differant so can't remember if my Protune does this or not.

[firetrappe]

Eddy, I've been playing with Protune on my XP machine today. I kept getting the error that you show. After a bit of research it turns out that it is due to the file stored in RAM on the drive being generated in a different language (probably from a Chinese machine).

If you go to Control Panel - Regional and Language Options then click the Languages tab and tick 'Install files for East Asian Languages', once it is applied you won't get the error message anymore.

Si.

[EddyCurrent]

Eddy, I've been playing with Protune on my XP machine today. I kept getting the error that you show. After a bit of research it turns out that it is due to the file stored in RAM on the drive being generated in a different language (probably from a Chinese machine).

If you go to Control Panel - Regional and Language Options then click the Languages tab and tick 'Install files for East Asian Languages', once it is applied you won't get the error message anymore.

Si.

Si, that's an excellent find I can't wait to try it !

[TonyD]

Thanks Lee for moving these threads under the build log.