newby requires help bad controler wiring

[tleah]

sory if i come over a litle thick this is the first machine i have built. I have purchased a set of plans from "CNCROUTER PLANS" FOR HIS 4FOOT X 8 FOOT MACHINE. The machanical side is simple and i can cope with that side of it. I decided to go for 3 motors and 3 drives in stead of one drive to feed all 3 motors. These I got from Shenzhen Yako Automation technology Co., Ltd as i am here in |Hong Kong at the moment and they are close. my problem is i need to find out how and what pins i use to come from the P.C. serial port to the 3 seperate drives. I am asuming i come from one serial port with a cable and take certain pins/ wires (signals) to each board? although the company have ben very helpfull and the products are very very good i can only get block diagrams from them (although the manual has a wiring diagram for the comtroler)
controler here http://en.yankong.com/newEbiz1/Conte...&download=true


motors are two phase hybrid stepping motors

do i have to use some sort of interface between the P.C. and the drives? or just a single multi core cable with a serial plug on the P.C. end and the wires open and split between the 3 drives at the other end?

sorry if i come over a weeee bit thick but its all a little confusing on your first build


Tony

any help would be very usefull

tleah66@hotmail.com

[John DiBernardo]

Hi,

I feel for you I am trying to find out how to do the same thing. If you find out any thing about how to wire the controllers to the serial port finding software would be the only thing left to do. I am trying to control two stepper motors each with their own controller simultaniously. I know that if you are using a db9 rs232 pins 2,3,and 4 are for transmit, receive and ground. That is all fine and dandy, but I need to know how to hook it up to the controllers. I have been browsing the internet for a couple of weeks or more trying to find something on my own trying not to show my ignorance. A lot of information is out there about how to build or how to buy controllers, but the interface wiring to the computers must be top secret. I built a controller circuit from scratch and was able to make it work only problem was I couldn't program step counts because there was no software involved. Any way if I find that may help you I'll let you know.

Thanks Jdibo

[cjmerlincnc]

Hi, Firstly you will not be able to control this drive from the computer's serial port without a dedicated controller with it's own software.

This drive has step and direction pins as most do nowadays and I suggest you get a breakout board which will have a connection for the parallel port (using a cable) and terminals for you to connect your drives.

You will then be able to control your project with software like Mach3 or similar CNC software.

Hope this helps.

[pminmo]

Maybe this will help you some: http://pminmo.com/PMinMOwiki/index.p...ystem_Overview