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What type of breakout board do you have to control the machine?.
Mach3
Anyone know where I connect this to, for Mach 3 to control the spindle?
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Re: Mach3
What type of breakout board do you have to control the machine?.
Re: Mach3
Not sure what you mean by breakout board. The cnc is controlled through pc parallel port.
Re: Mach3
The board that is inbetween the parallel port and steppers. That is called a breakout board.
For example see the one I've imaged below.
On this one I've selected for the example:
You see the row of 6 terminals on the right hand side. Those are for spindle control and power to inputs.
Now on your image of the box you're asking about:
The SWITCH would go into the top 2 terminals if you wanted the relay to control M3/M4 or just an on/off.
The wires marked as MACH3 would go to the bottom 2 terminals. The positive (0-10v) goes to 0-10v on the board and the negative (GND) goes to GND on the board.
Then change active low/high if needed so 0v is stopped and 10v is full spd.
These terminals and other inputs on this board (left) only work if a 12-24v psu is applied to the central 2 pins of the 6.
The relay is Pin 17. (Would be direction/on-off).
The 0-10v is Pin 1. (Would be the pulse/step counts).
Set spindle as- step=1, dir=0 (in motor outputs).
Set ouput1 as Pin=17 (in outputs), set spindle M3/M4 as output1 (in spindle setup).
Set spindle as pwm (in spindle setup).
Set active high/low as needed on spindle step & output1.
Last edited by dazp1976; 07-23-2021 at 09:12 AM.
Re: Mach3
This is what I have. Hope you can make sense of it.The board that is inbetween the parallel port and steppers. That is called a breakout board.
For example see the one I've imaged below.
On this one I've selected for the example:
You see the row of 6 terminals on the right hand side. Those are for spindle control and power to inputs.
Now on your image of the box you're asking about:
The SWITCH would go into the top 2 terminals if you wanted the relay to control M3/M4 or just an on/off.
The wires marked as MACH3 would go to the bottom 2 terminals. The positive (0-10v) goes to 0-10v on the board and the negative (GND) goes to GND on the board.
Then change active low/high if needed so 0v is stopped and 10v is full spd.
These terminals and other inputs on this board (left) only work if a 12-24v psu is applied to the central 2 pins of the 6.
The relay is Pin 17
The 0-10v is Pin 1
Re: Mach3
Could be a pain. Most of it isn't soldered up!. Do you not have any limit switches on it then?. (bottom right). below the G/ IN// V pin holes.
Do you have only 5v going into it or is there a 12-24 as well?.
It looks like your board is PWM output to me but can't be sure. A 0-10v output type needs at least 12v to operate. A pwm type needs an extra analog converter board.
On the left in the middle there are 2 pin holes on there own marked pwm, that's the area they would go.
Could do with model number / manufacturer tbf.
I would prob swap it out with one of those 5 axis ones I showed earlier personally.
Re: Mach3
It's cheap Chinese one, will look at replacing it. Thanks for your help.
