mach3 help

[HiltonSteve]

Edit - Missed your last post, looks like you have already sorted it!


Have you configured your charge pump output in mach3? This is the signal required to enable the breakout board and without this then nothing will work, thats unless you have an overide jumper on the breakout board which you can set so that it will ignore the signal but I don't recommend doing this.

To configure mach3 to operate it you need to go to the output settings and configure your axis outputs (I take it you have already done this?) and also the charge pump output. The charge pump output is pin1 the rest of the outputs can be found in the manual (see below).

Parallel Port Pin Uniport Input
1 Charge pump signal Out
2 X Direction Out
3 X Step Out
4 Y Direction Out
5 Y Step Out
6 Z Direction Out

7 Z Step Out

I used a uniport board on my machine and from memory these were all incorrect when I first installed mach3 and I had to change all of the values to get my steppers to run.