Marchant dice cnc router mill compatiable with mach 3

[gavztheouch]

[Raul]

Hi Gav,

Sorry to hear that this CNC are so bad, but do you have by any chance the set up of Mach 3? because I have and A1 size CNC but everything seems ok, green light on, mach3 moving, but the step motor not, and I am going crazy about it. Can you help me?

Best regards

[Roboteernat]

Have you checked for power going to the stepper drivers?

You may need to check the pinout wiring to determine what signal lines are going to which pin of the breakout board and remap these ports and pins in Mach3.
It sounds like your pins are not mapped which is why your machine is not moving.
I have a marchant dice machine, now put into storage as i upgraded to a 6040.

QUOTE=Raul;123720]Hi Gav,

Sorry to hear that this CNC are so bad, but do you have by any chance the set up of Mach 3? because I have and A1 size CNC but everything seems ok, green light on, mach3 moving, but the step motor not, and I am going crazy about it. Can you help me?

Best regards[/QUOTE]

[Raul]

Hi Roboteernat,
I don't know how to do it, because the breakout board has not marks or anything understandable, because for example it has pin 19 on X as you can see on the picture, but that pin is too high, unless is not the one I have to follow. it doesn't work anyway I have try it. ButI have try with a chepest board and driver just for the X driver and it works, I can not believe it, is only configuration, but how can I check where the pin goes if I don't have signal and nothing write on the board telling me with pin is where? can you show me a picture so I can see how to do it?

Thanks in advance mate

[cropwell]

Hi Roboteernat,
I don't know how to do it, because the breakout board has not marks or anything understandable, because for example it has pin 19 on X as you can see on the picture, but that pin is too high, unless is not the one I have to follow. it doesn't work anyway I have try it. ButI have try with a chepest board and driver just for the X driver and it works, I can not believe it, is only configuration, but how can I check where the pin goes if I don't have signal and nothing write on the board telling me with pin is where? can you show me a picture so I can see how to do it?

Thanks in advance mate

If you get stuck for drivers that plug into this board, I think I still have the old ones somewhere (no promises though). Personally, I would chuck out all the old Marchant Dice electronics and start again with something bog standard. I don't think a MD machine is worth wasting good money on decent motion control - just a £5 BoB and some cheap drivers.