Need Help!- Enable how????

[mjhooo8]

Just recently I bought a 3 axis cnc board which was tested and does work on kcam. I myself have tested the board on a trial of kcam and it does work.
Here is the million dollar question, the pin setup calls for an x Ebable (as for y and z). I've tried to leave the pins that call for " (x,y,z) Enable" as unused but to no avail. From what information I have seen my answer lies with Hal. I have no clue what to do in order to get my board working with emc2. Whats more my board's manual was translated from spanish to english, which = alota giberish.

Thanks in advance!
here is my board's called for pin setup

1 OPORT+20INVERTEDSPINDLE RELAY
2 OPORT0 NORMALX-STEP
3 OPORT1 NORMALX-DIR
4 OPORT2 NORMALX-ENABLE
5 OPORT3 NORMALY-STEP
6 OPORT4 NORMAL Y-DIR
7 OPORT5 NORMAL Y-ENABLE
8 OPORT6 NORMAL Z-STEP
9 OPORT7 NORMAL Z-DIR
10 IPORT+16 NORMAL NU
11 IPORT+17 INVERTEDX-HOME SWITCH
12 IPORT+15 NORMAL Y-HOME SWITCH
13 IPORT+14 NORMAL Z-HOME SWITCH
14 OPORT+21 INVERTEDZ-ENABLE
15 IPORT+13 NORMAL NU
16 OPORT+22 NORMALM CODE FUNCTION
17 OPORT+23 INVERTEDM CODE FUNCTION

[Zig]

If the pins are ENABLE active high then leaving them unconnected may in fact not enable axes.

You need to connect the enable pins to a logic high in order to get them going.

In the first instance take a voltmeter ( set it to DCV ) and measure the voltage on ENABLE pins with board powered up and nothing connected to pins.

It should probably read less than 1 volt.

Take a resistor of a few hundred ohms ( just to contain smoke on the input ) and hook it up to +5v and the pin and again measure pin voltage.

Should be close to 5 Volts and the axis should be active.

If the voltage is below four volts then you will need a buffer to drive the enable pins.

Solution 1) permanently tie the enable to +5volts... may be an unsafe option.

Solution 2) tie enable to +5 volts via E-Stop pushbutton activated relay

Solution 3) In configuration wizard you will be able to select which pin from paralle port is machine enable ( sorry do not have software to hand to check exact name) Feed the enable pin signal via a buffer and through E_Stop activated relay to the axis enable pins.


E-Stop interlock gives you added level of safety.