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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / M3 and M4 Turns Spindle CW???

« on: November 17, 2017, 11:53:43 PM »

I piggy backed this new thread onto my closed out K1 and K2 relay thread but after thinking on it for a couple of days thought it would be best to start a new one.  If this is not the correct way to do let me know.  Otherwise: my spindle will not reverse direction.  I've gone through my Mach3 configuration as well as my VFD parameter settings.  I changed some of the settings one at a time but still no luck and rewired the 107 board to my VFD.  I've read through the manuals several times and haven't been able to find the problem.  Been working on this for three days and haven't made any progress.

I've attached my Mach3 XML file.  Any help is appreciated.

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / K1 and K2 Stopped Working

« on: November 02, 2017, 11:46:10 AM »

My setup has been working flawlessly for several months.  Last weekend I decided to setup Mach to control my flood coolant pump.  I started out enabling K1/pin 1 to send a 5vdc signal to a relay that would start/stop the pump motor.  I got a 3.95vdc signal from pin 1 to the relay but the pump motor would not start.  Did some research and discovered that I could run the pump motor directly from K1 so that is the direction I decided to take.

Went back to the shop yesterday and made the wiring changes.  K1 and K2 were working last time I had the machine running but when I started up I had no lights on either relay.  I checked my configuration thinking I might have not saved my settings and all appears good.  I have JP1 jumpered to pin 1 and JP2 jumpered to pin 14.  In Mach3 Output 1 is enabled and set to port 1 and pin 1.  Output 2 is set to port 1 and pin 14.  Selecting active high or low has no effect.

I'm running a PMDX-126 BoB, PMDX-107 spindle control board, and ESS on Windows 7 64 bit laptop.  My xml file is attached.

Am I missing a setting somewhere? 

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / PMDX-107 and Hitachi VFD Not Playing Well Together

« on: July 05, 2017, 08:32:17 PM »

I joined this forum because I've heard good things about PMDX products and support.  Recently I purchased a PMDX-126 BoB, PMDX-107 spindle controller and an ethernet smoothstepper.  Finished up installation and configuration and got the BoB and smoothstepper working in normal mode.  I can jog the motors, the e-stop works, limit switches do what they are supposed to do, and the probe functions.  But when I configure the Dip switch for normal mode with charge pump the motors no longer move and the remote e-stop doesn't work.  I've enabled the charge pump function in Mach3 and specified Port 1 and Pin 17.  Spent most of today reading and trying to track down a solution.  No luck!

My second issue is I can't get the PMDX-107 board to communicate with my VFD (Hitachi WJ200-015SF).  I followed the AN002 instructions but still no communication.  Tried it with charge pump and without. 

PLC is jumpered to L on upper row "Source Logic".

Motor thermal switch to Terminal 5 (Logic Input) and Terminal L (Grnd for logic inputs) on VFD

107 to VFD Connections:

Rev/Dir  to Terminal 2 on VFD (Logic Input)
Fwd/Run to Terminal 1 on VFD (Logic Input)
COM to Terminal P24 on VFD (+24V for logic inputs)
Aref to Terminal H on VFD (+10V analog reference)
Aout to Terminal O on VFD (analog voltage input)
Agnd to Terminal L on lower row on VFD (GRND for logic inputs)
Dip 6 On For RatioMetric (Tried it Both Ways On and off).

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.  Any help is appreciated.  If more information is needed please ask.


Thanks