Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] problem solved....=Re: Screen says "in motion", yet motors are not turning?

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:06:45 -0000, you wrote:

>this is embarrasing, but someone "might" learn from it...I had the cable going to the wrong DB25(?) on the back of the computer, instead of being plugged into the "printer" port, it was plugged into who knows what????......
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>the first cable I tried was female/female....the correct cable is male/female.....I figured it out when I saw an extra cable just sitting on the table, I knew I had used it before for some reason :)

Serial. It's a 25 pin serial connector. That (and 9 pins) are two
RS-232 connector standards. (USB is serial, but not the same thing).

IBM chose the pins/sockets to keep people from plugging the printer
into the modem, etc....

Harvey

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>Mike
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>--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Mueller" <mueller914@y...> wrote:
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>> About a year ago I had my mill operating using TurboCNC (for a week)
>> (Camtronics power supply<servo>, Gecko drivers)
>> I took the machine apart and I am now getting to putting it together again.
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>> Tonight I plugged everything in again and tried to Jog the motors.
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>> On the screen that shows the readout or position of the servo for a particular axis, I can enter a postion, hit "G"(go)/"Y"(yes) and I get a "compensating" then a "in motion" instead of the numbers, yet the motor does not turn.
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>> I have voltage to the motor(s), and the correct signals to the encoders(????)
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>> Thanks
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