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Need more inputs - 2nd Parallel port?
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I ran out of inputs on my C35SR1.2 breakout and read somewhere you can add another parallel card and use the 2 thru 9 pins. My question is, can i use the 2nd port directly and wire my input straight from that port and get it to trigger a touch plate in mach3? I tried piggybacking my z wire but I have to lose my z limit to proceed with the auto zero features. If this is the case any recommendations on what card to get? I'm running on an older XP gateway pc.... I'm still a newbee trying to tame my FLA 2*4
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开云体育Go for something like a Smooth Stepper. It will give you the equivalent of 2 parallel ports and is upwardly compatible with later versions of windows so will save you going through all this again when your XP system fails and can’t be replaced. A second parallel port for XP is probably going to need drivers that are hard to get and then hard to get working with Mach software. There are alternatives to Smooth steppers but if you want to use spindle positioning to trigger movement for threading or other purposes then check carefully that they have the features you require. ? Martin C ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? |
开云体育You can go to the SmoothStepper website to see the many breakout boards that work splendidly with the SmoothStepper. ?With that said I installed a SmoothStepper into my old Chinese CNC router system with a no name BOB and it worked fine.
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开云体育I like the PMDX-126 (the CNC router has the older PMDX-125). John ? ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of phill005
Sent: November-27-19 6:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Need more inputs - 2nd Parallel port? ? Martin, |
开云体育I ran into that exact problem.? The second parallel port card I bought doesn't have a driver for WIN-XP and I don’t want to start ordering all sorts that might or might not work.? ? My USB Smooth stepper borrowed from the CNC router _does_ work and would provide the second port that I will need but it's for the CNC Router.? ? So for the milling machine I have to decide if I want to order an Ethernet USB Smooth Stepper ($180) or just continue to use the dual boot on this PC and use the Ethernet MESA 7i92H ($89) with LinuxCNC. ? At the moment while I'm evaluating and doing the conversion I've stayed with one parallel port cable into the PMDX-126 BoB and use the dual boot to use either system. ? John Dammeyer ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Connelly
Sent: November-27-19 3:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MachCNC] Need more inputs - 2nd Parallel port? ? Go for something like a Smooth Stepper. It will give you the equivalent of 2 parallel ports and is upwardly compatible with later versions of windows so will save you going through all this again when your XP system fails and can’t be replaced. A second parallel port for XP is probably going to need drivers that are hard to get and then hard to get working with Mach software. There are alternatives to Smooth steppers but if you want to use spindle positioning to trigger movement for threading or other purposes then check carefully that they have the features you require. ? Martin C ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? |
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-sent from my iphone -- On Nov 27, 2019, at 4:30 AM, phill005 <phill05@...> wrote:
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I found this...
It comes with a cd that has the XP drivers ...14 bucks and I got my extra inputs ...It is a cheap quick solution if mach3 sees it... I want to get some cnc router experience under my belt before I plunge into the next level upgrade ...(spindle, 4th axis)....still not sure how the touch plate gets wired to the 2nd port, Would a dp25 male connector with two wires one on the ground and one on pin 2 - 9 do the trick? |