Need Help!- Kkutt

[KKutt]

Greetings all.

I am in the finish stages of building a(4X10 FT) 4 axis router. I purchased a 5 axis Logitrol controller (which has 201 gecko's) and will be slaving two motors on the X and another for a rotary table.
The controller has dual parallel ports and the info I received with it only shows the pin out diagrams for one of them (waiting on feedback). I purchased a C23 breakout board from CNC4PC in hope to connect it between the control and the PC to have some more available pins to control peripheral devices and analog output to run a Chinese 2.2KW spindle. My question is whether I can configure Mach to run the logitrol control and still have the function of the spare pins on the breakout board??? Also is there a way I can figure out which pins are doing what on the Logitrol controller second port through the Mach software? Can I change the signals in Mach to send the info to a different pin?

Any help on this will be much appreciated as I am tiring of kicking tools around the shop floor now.

[Torchhead]

Originally Posted by KKutt Greetings all. My question is whether I can configure Mach to run the logitrol control and still have the function of the spare pins on the breakout board??? Also is there a way I can figure out which pins are doing what on the Logitrol controller second port through the Mach software? Can I change the signals in Mach to send the info to a different pin? Any help on this will be much appreciated as I am tiring of kicking tools around the shop floor now.

If the connectors for the inputs for PORT1 and Port2 are separate you should be able to install a totally independent port2 card and BOB, set it up in MACH and use it's inputs and outputs. If the controller is currently using any of the port 2 signals internally then you will have to wait for the information from Logitrol.

If you open the Ports&pins and input signals tab in MACH and look for any enabled PORT2 pin mappings (for inputs) and the output signals (for outputs)) then you can check to see if any are used and for what signals. The only other possible inputs would be for encoders for an MPG. usually Port2 is setup in MACH to use mostly inputs (option to "Use Pins 2-9 as Inputs" is checked) and only 4 outputs are open (pin1, 14, 16 & 17). Pins 2-13 are inputs As is 15. The rub will be if the physical pins (inputs) are where you can access them.

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