Puruvesi MyCNC-ET7 Controller first look.

[Neale]

No idea what your problem is. All I can say is that I plugged it into the ethernet port, configured the laptop with a 192.168.0.address, and away it went. Can't say that I did anything clever that I can boast about! It's an ET6 rather than 7, of course, so might be slightly different firmware on the board? I think that I saw something about having to plug into a computer port rather than hub, presumably to avoid having to use a cross-over cable, but even if you are using a hub or switch, most of those are auto-switching these days anyway.

I have the limit switches configured and working, at least as far as the diagnostic LEDs going on and off as required. However, I've lost the printed copy of my IP/M manual where I noted down all the wire colours, connections, etc, which makes things slightly more difficult. Also trying to find out why the e-stop system isn't working. I have e-stop switches and fault outputs from the EM806 all in series with the safety relay so the relay trips in an emergency including driver fault. Can't get it to latch on now, so I suspect a wire has been dislodged somewhere but lost in the cable guide. However, the whole e-stop/relay stuff is independent of the controller - just switches a connection to the board's e-stop input - so the problem shouldn't be anything to do with the ET6.

Struggled a bit with motor configuration. There is a reference in the manual for the basic motor setup that says that speeds are units/sec (not units/min, like Mach3) but it's not defined for the "motor tuning" page. I've just set very conservative values as I would rather the motors creep than overspeed and trip the drivers.There is also a min, max, and "mid" speed to define - but I can't find an explanation of the "mid" speed. But I can't test any of that until I have the e-stop/safety relay working. E-stop handling in this software looks a bit more complicated than IP/M and Mach3 so that's going to need a bit of decoding as well.

I'll do a bit more reading tonight and have another go, fresh, in the morning. Wish me luck! I expect this will all be clear in time - I had similar issues first time round with the IP/M and Mach3.

[JAZZCNC]

No idea what your problem is. All I can say is that I plugged it into the ethernet port, configured the laptop with a 192.168.0.address, and away it went. Can't say that I did anything clever that I can boast about! It's an ET6 rather than 7, of course, so might be slightly different firmware on the board? I think that I saw something about having to plug into a computer port rather than hub, presumably to avoid having to use a cross-over cable, but even if you are using a hub or switch, most of those are auto-switching these days anyway.

No not connected through any switches or hubs etc, I never do. I've fitted 100's of ethernet controllers so it's not exactly my first rodeo battling with stubborn cards who don't want to talk to each other, so I did all the usual checks, cables, etc of which I've got dozens of various types, lengths, etc. However, this thing behaved oddly from the very first plug-in because it wouldn't show at all even when I pinged the board.
Only after I run some network trace software did it appear. To be honest I thought the IP on the board was wrong at first and was just about to dig into changing that when I spoke to Clive S who suggested running IP trace software and sure enough the IP trace found it. From then on it appeared when pinged and connected every time, very odd.?

The adapter and card connect ok and talk to each other no problems and the software loads up fine then it just closes the software.? Nothing I do can keep it from closing. This is all on Win10 with a fresh install and fully updated on a nice fast PC with SSD drive etc.!

The Win7 Laptop found it straight away stays connected, software loads, and stays loaded but it crashes randomly. All of this is with nothing connected to the board but an Ethernet cable and power.

I even tried to install it on a Linux PC that I have for Linux CNC but give up on that because Linux is complete F@#$ing mystery to me.!!

After all this, I was ready to smash the card into a billion pieces but I knew it was time to walk away. So I contacted Ivan at Puruvesi and he was great but nothing he suggested helped so we were going to arrange for an engineer to remote into my system but at the same time my grandaughter got sick which turned out to be Covid19 and all hell broke loose so not got back to it.
I'm sure when I do they will sort me out, or I'll put it in the 90ton press we are building and turn it into Tea coaster....


Watch this for the motor settings.