Thank you so very much! This is exactly what I needed. I didn't even know I needed a control board. I have a driver and motor, and thought I was ready to go, lol. Extremely helpful and just a goldmine of an instructional video. Thank you!
Superb video! i have been looking into this for such a long time and every time i looked i felt more intimidated by the whole thing. I intend to convert an existing machine (Denford Triac) to mach 3 and upgrade all the motors etc. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this very informative video!
Very informative. Thanks. In regards to the Mach 3 setup, I plan to run an ec300 control board on my plasma cutter table because it has an Ethernet connection. I heard the USB connection boards are prone to interference from the plasma arc. My question is, would an Ethernet connected board be considered a parallel connection in the Mach 3 setup? Thanks. Subscribed.
at 10 minutes you explained that if there is a short circuit in the spindle controller, the spike in current will propagate in the other circuit. The way I see it, those two circuits are in parallel, so how is it possible that the spike in current propagates in that case? Thanks.
hello , really nice video just I don't understand why you put the 5V to the D+ et P+ ?? I planned to wire the P- and D- to the ground and D+ and P+ to the XD and XP of the breaking board , is this right ?? thank you in advance
Hi there, Could you please help me with a little thing? After rehoming the machine, i'm sending it to do the job, but it goes in wrong direction. basically it starts from 0 and goes from rehoming corner off the limits. I've tried to reverse them in the motor outputs and still the same. My question is... would be possible to get the mach3 bord connected wrong to the driver? would this be a fix to my problem? to swap the direction pulse wires? Thanks!
Check your configuration switches on the NEMA drivers. There should be a DIP switch with approximately 8 individual switches. Check your driver manual for which one of those switches controls direction. Flip the switches opposite for all the axis' that are giving you problems
Hey man thanks for your question. In my case, the power supply for the NEMA's is 36V, they take an input between 18-48V. The breakout board requires 24V. You could share the power supply at 24V but I would recommend a minimum of 36V to drive NEMA 23's
