Mike,
You need to set the jumper J24 to common ground for the Rutex drives. This
will provide the ground back to the PC ground that the Rutex drive needs.
The Rutex drive does not have an optical isolator on the input.
Bob Campbell
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Abbott" <abbottm@...>
To: <mach1mach2cnc@...>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:25 AM
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Breakout board
I received the optical breakout board from Campbell Designs I
purchased and was very impressed with the capabilities but so far
have not been able to make it work correctly. I went through the
bench testing of the various voltages successfully so everything is
powered up correctly as far as I can determine. I hooked my gecko
drives up to the X, Y and Z axis and got both LED's to light next
to
each axis. The cable from my PC to the system is the same one which
I've used with a "dumb" breakout board but with the
addition of a
small gender changer. I'm fairly certain that the gender changer
is
not the problem but just in case I'm waiting on the delivery of a
correctly gendered cable. At any rate though, after I power up and
engage the gecko's the servo's start singing and lock up so
I've
also fairly certain that the encoders are receiving power but the
board is not generating any command output using Mach2 (i.e. the
axis do not move at all).
Setup of the board seemed to me to be fairly simple since it came
shipped to me correctly jumpered as far as I could determine. I
went back to the dumb board and left my mach2 setup the same now so
I can swap back and forth now fairly simply but anything else I can
check would be appreciated.
Mike
Michael A. Abbott
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