Re: new stepper motors wiring mess ?fixed!

Boy what a revelation! Could be true and the more I work the less
faith I have. I will try another software and see if that is the
weak link.

Thanks so much for that info. I wish I could prove it wrong.

Keith Clark

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "metlmunchr"
<metlmunchr@y...> wrote:

> There was a thread in cnczone a couple months back where a guy

posed a

> question as to whether anyone had successfully completed a stepper
> conversion using camsoft. He said he had been fooling with one

for a

> year and still didn't have any decent results. The guy obviously
> wasn't an amateur as he detailed checking outputs with a scope,

etc.

> There were lots of responses but with the exception of one post

that

> smelled like a camsoft shill ("yes I did one and it was easier

than a

> servo retrofit" but no answers to anything specific), most of the

rest

> were just guesses and things like "why didn't you use servos?".

This

> poster said he was losing steps even when the feedrate was less

than 1

> ipm. He also noted he had initially bought a "package" from

camsoft

> that included Anaheim Automation drives, and that they had croaked
> during his attempts to get it working. He said the new

replacement AA

> drives (indicated some design change) hadn't died, but actually

gave

> even more performance problems than the initial ones.
>
> I'm writing this because there are a lot of similarities in the
> problems you say you're having and the ones this fellow was

having.

> The constant is the camsoft software. cnczone is a large forum,

yet

> there was no credible response indicating anyone there had actually
> done this retrofit with steppers successfully. One post did

indicate

> there are large differences in using the Galil board for steppers
> versus using it for servos, but still didn't have an answer.

Seems it

> would be simple enough at this point to see how the system works

when

> driven by Mach2. Everything else you have appears to be the bread

and

> butter items that others are able to get going with little

difficulty

> under Mach or TCNC.