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My cpu crashed.. trying to set up mach 3
On new cpu..l lost all info on plasma kit when I bought it in 2011.. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.
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This is the manual for your board, what else do you want to know?

Note The Toshiba TB6560 and TB6600 chips have a bad reputation ... but if its working good luck

You will need to trace out your wiring to establish what does what

http://www.osservatoriobassano.org/TCS2 ... Manual.pdf
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Oh yeah..... you will need to run Mach3 on a 32bit Windows 7 (or older) version if you want to connect it directly to the LPT (parallel) port

You will also need a PC (or laptop) with an LPT (parallel) port too....

Or else you will need a motion controller device to provide your LPT port with a newer (64bit) operating system

Such as a genuine UC100 which I know works with THC (if you have it) http://cncdrive.com/UC100.html

If you don't need THC then there are other options such as the Pokeys USB>LPT device https://www.poscope.com/product/pokeys57cncd25/

+ chinese offerings {but they won't do THC and may prove problematic as they are generally not developed.... where as Polabs and cncDrive do fix any bugs etc with their motion controllers if you contact them for support)
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Thank you !!! I will read the manual and see if I can get it to work..if not I guess I'll try something else.. thanks again!
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I have tried all different setting and cannot get this thing going...is there anyone that I can mail my CPU and motors to get this thing going. I can't do it. Willing to pay.
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you said your CPU crashed, do you know what crashed, meaning do you think it was the hard drive or the CPU that failed. If the hard drive is Ok you may be able to put it into another computer and read the info from it and get the info you need.
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CPU is fine the kid that was playing on it erased all my files and mach3 was uninstalled....by accident he said. He said he was trying to clean it up.
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Whoops Bad kid Bad kid don't do that again :HaHa
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Your right about that no one else on that computer!
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Anyone around Corpus Christi Texas to come by and help set up ?
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what have you tried?

can you get no movement in any axis?

is anything working?

on the diagnostics screen does any pins change when you toggle the estop button?

giive as much info as possible please
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X axis moves right and left
Y motor turns in one direction only
C motor turns in both directions when I use
The page up and page down keys which is suppose to be my Z axis.
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can you upload your mach 3 profile please

you may need to rename the extension *.txt to get it to upload
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try these

pin 1 - X direction
pin 2 - torch fire
pin 3 - Z step
pin 4 - X enable
pin 5 - Z enable
pin 6 - Z direction
pin 7 - Y direction
pin 8 - C direction
pin 9 - C step
pin 14 - Y step
pin 16 - X step
pin 17 - Y enable

pin 10 - input 1
pin 11 - input 2
pin 12 - input 3
pin 13 - input 4
pin 15 - not sure!!????
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As to the Y motor only moving in one direction, it does not have the connection with the correct dir pin. there needs to be a zero volt for one direction and + volt for the other direction. With no change in the dir pin voltage it only moves in one direction. As robert points out there are pins assigned to step and dir for each motor, the problem is not all electronics use the same pins. So if you have the manual look for what pins are for the C and Z just change the pin locations in the software from the C step and dir to the pins for the Z. On the drivers I have used I do not use the enable at all, but they may be needed for your electronics.
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I wish I had the manual!! I bought the kit on Ebay in 2012 ....I got the rails motors and cpu. When I put it together it worked great.Then worked out of town for a few months and stop using it.these are the only 2 pictures I have from the original purchase.
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I give up!! I spent all day trying all different settings I'm not a computer wiz! I'm a rancher/welder...I'm about to pull out my 45 and fix it my way!!
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here is one thing to check in the image only what is shown in the blue box and nothing in the other boxes. I have see when the other boxes are check goofy stuff happens.
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I checked that too.
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robertspark wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:06 am try these

pin 1 - X direction
pin 2 - torch fire
pin 3 - Z step
pin 4 - X enable
pin 5 - Z enable
pin 6 - Z direction
pin 7 - Y direction
pin 8 - C direction
pin 9 - C step
pin 14 - Y step
pin 16 - X step
pin 17 - Y enable

pin 10 - input 1
pin 11 - input 2
pin 12 - input 3
pin 13 - input 4
pin 15 - not sure!!????
have you tried this yet?

got to be patient

Look, there are only 12 outputs and 5 inputs.

The outputs are pins 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,14,16,17
The inputs are pins 10,11,12,13,15

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There are a lot of these boards about, all of them have different pin assignments (although to me they all physically look the same)

eg:
http://ekladata.com/pAsj8QbClJezlB3jbgz ... Manual.pdf

https://wiki.shapeoko.com/images/9/9b/H ... 4-axis.pdf

https://www.rckeith.co.uk/wp-content/up ... Driver.pdf

I would suggest trying one of these combinations of pin configurations (one of them will stick eventually).

You will need to setup the ENABLE on the Output Signals tab.
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I actually got some of it working!!
I only thing wrong my X axis is backwards..right arrow moves left...left arrow moves right. Everything else is correct.
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Switch dir low active for that axis (and the slave axis if it uses 2 motors) to a green check instead of the red x.
Looks like your x isn't slaved so just change x.
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I'll try that tomorrow....thanks
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