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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 09, 2016, 03:01:25 PM »

Did you find anything in my xml file that needed to be set up differently?

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 08, 2016, 04:15:51 PM »

I have not gotten pin 14 to correctly show clockwise or ccw. I have attached the xml file as requested.

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 08, 2016, 12:16:12 PM »

So how does the PWM signal get to pin 16. Do I connect something to the #16 wire connector? Is it something that the PMDX-126 board creates when directed by Mach3? It seems to me that this signal is not getting to the PMDX-107.

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 07, 2016, 07:09:36 PM »

I am running Mach3, on the 126 the outputs enabled led is on and the estop led if off. I assigned the spindle step and direction to port 1. The pin 14 led comes on with an M3 command and stays on with an M4 command, also the K2 relay led comes one with both. Yesterday I set up output 14 to operate the K1 relay to operate the CW relay (KA1 on the preexisting setup). Where do I define what port and pin operates M3 and then M4?

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 07, 2016, 03:46:32 PM »

I set up everything as in AN002. Then on the 107 I ran the test and the spindle worked. I am not getting an led on #16.

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 06, 2016, 11:19:01 PM »

The test button and pot control the spindle. Is it necessary to have the charge pump operational as long as the switches on each board are set correctly and it is turned of in software?

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 06, 2016, 03:22:28 PM »

I finally got everything working on this mill except the spindle will not turn on. I can run the spindle by putting a 9 volt battery across  the wires that go to Agnd and Aout on the PMDX-107. The PMDX-107 only shows the one power led and does not output the 0-10V.

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Re: Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 01, 2016, 07:18:13 PM »

Hello Steve, yes I should have said 24v and I was talking about the KA1 and KA2 relays. I was hoping to keep the rewireing to a minimum should I have to convert back to the JNC-40M board.

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Converting a Precision Mathews PM45M Cnc mill to use a Smoothstepper, PMDX-126

« on: March 01, 2016, 12:17:34 PM »

Hello, I am converting a Precision Mathews PM45M CNC mill to use a an Ethernet Smoothstepper, PMDX-126, and a PMDX-107. The current motion controller/BOB is a Jamen JNC-40M. This controller passes 14V through output 1 and 2 to energize the relays to run the spindle either cw or ccw. I would like to continue to use the existing relays is this manner but I don't know if allowing the 14v to pass through the output 1 or 2 to ground would damage the 126 board. And if so can I then use the PMDX-107 to control just the spindle speed using the Aout and Agnd?