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    Default Need help with setting up an old 3040 machine

    Hi folks,

    New to the forum but intend to stay here awhile to learn something that I have been wanting to learn for very very long. I purchased this machine 5 years ago:

    https://www.amazon.ca/TEN-HIGH-High-.../dp/B01AG26TNS





    For those 5 years it has been sitting in storage and never been installed. One day I decided, heck it's time! I either throw this away or set it up. With nothing to lose I decided to learn Mastercam and to a lesser degree Mach3. So obviously in those 5 years many things have changed, I can't find any computer with a serial port, everything is USB. With zero knowledge and some digging, I decided to buy this card:

    https://www.aliexpress.com/item/CNC-...311.0.0.7iqw9z


    in the hope that once the card arrived I would actually know what to do with it! Obviously I was wrong....

    I finally turned the machine around and lo and behold I see a USB connection at the back. I opened up the control box and also noticed that it had the following control card installed:





    It is a uim2901-5a mach3 breakout board

    UI Robot Technology Co., Ltd., UI Robot Technology Co., Ltd. Suppliers and Manufacturers at tradeKorea.com

    http://www.asintegrated.cz/wordpress...kout-board.pdf

    So my question really is I guess a simple yet complicated one: How do I actually get this machine to work with a USB connection?! I guess I should just plug the machine in and find out but I assume it's not going to be that simple. All help is greatly welcome. Thank you in advance.

    Regards,
    Sean

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    Default Re: Need help with setting up an old 3040 machine

    So I plugged in the computer to the existing board and it obviously didn't work since the computer did not recognise the USB device and there is no actual driver for the onboard card. I went though the circuitry for the new board that I have which is here:



    and I looked at the onboard card here:

    http://www.asintegrated.cz/wordpress...kout-board.pdf

    and came up with the following:



    I think I have most of it sorted but I'm really unsure about the power supply. On the new board schematics it shows an inverter, so I am a little confused. Any help or even pointing me in the right direction (maybe I'm in the wrong sub-forum) that would be great

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