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Certainly an interesting thought. It is a stepper/ballscrew setup. I'm using cnc4pc c23 bob with G201's. What do you feel would be the likely cause for that senario, Gecko or motor?

Thanks, looks like I won't have to do much at all!

I'm with samco, if it is a stepper machine, maybe it's snapping to the closest full step rather than real microstepping. I see this behavior on my plasma table, not that it matters on that machine. Paul

Not sure if Mach runs on 2000 server? Although if the drivertest works, I guess it should. Have you tried using outputs, and measuring voltage on the direction pin while jogging? Do the DR's change? Is the Estop wired to an external switch, or breakout board?

DRO's change, no activity on port lights on diagnostics page, though when I hit my external Estop (13) switch port 13 changes status and Mach3 responds to the Estop. Estop is has two spst switches, one kills the SloSync Drivers, the other goes to my breakout board to parallel port pin 13. I had my O-scope on it when it was doing this on XP, but I don't remember the results. I'll put it on tonight and see what I'm getting at...

You can map a input to a Mach Button by using a OEM trigger and then define the trigger as a Mach3 button in the Hotkeys section. A list of the oem numbers is posted in the Wiki. http://www.machsupport.com/MachCusto...le=OEM_Buttons Five inputs are available on the first parallel port, you may need a 2nd parallel port card if you need more inputs. You can also use a macro and a GetOEMButton() call to do more complex logic (i.e test to see if a...

You can map a input to a Mach Button by using a OEM trigger and then define the trigger as a Mach3 button in the Hotkeys section. A list of the oem numbers is posted in the Wiki. http://www.machsupport.com/MachCusto...le=OEM_Buttons Five inputs are available on the first parallel port, you may need a 2nd parallel port card if you need more inputs. You can also use a macro and a GetOEMButton() call to do more complex logic (i.e test to see if a...

I have heard of this Drive system before, unfortunately i do not know any controller software that supports this directly. I could think of two ways to accomplish this tho. 1) Earlier releases of Turbocnc support a Phase drive system a modefication of this should be relative easy because the source code for this is included with the purchase of this Software. 2) Design of a electronic gadet to convert the step and direction signal to a Left...

Hello to all and thanks for the help (in advance), I am retrofitting an EMCO Compact 6 lathe. Also will be retrofitting an EMCO Turn 120P. Both currently have the original 5-phase stepper motors. I found some very nice amplifiers, but the problem is that they need some odd controlls. They do not take the normal step / direction signals. The amplifier asks for two inputs... 1) step forward 2) step reverse. I know this is also the scenario for...

Here is about the simplest circuit that will do the job... Its the lower diagram, the upper one goes from step up/down to step/dir. These assume logic levels, e.g. off the parallel port or a non-opto BOB. If your inputs/outputs are opto-isolated you'll need something different. Let me know if so...