Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Help on stepper drivers and programs - please

Doug,
Thanks for this tip. I believe I had done this, but I will go through it
again.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Fortune" <pentam@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Help on stepper drivers and programs - please


> Robert wrote:
>
> > As far as the hardware connections try here.
> > http://www.armory.com/~rstevew There is a little project called Floppy
bot
> > out there somewhere. I f no luck I can send what I have hacked up here
on
> > file. I recently did this trying KellyCAM, but I had a problem with it
> > driving in one direction only.
>
> We had the same problem while playing with the free Windoze KCam
(http://www.kellyware.com )
> but it turned out to be: we had just connected the S&D parallel port
pins to the
> driver, BUT NOT A GROUND (ie a logical ground from the driver to one of
the
> ground pins on the stepper port). BTW KCam now supports defining
> parallel pinouts to Step or Direction signals which makes it a lot easier
> to configure (it used to be register bits to S&D signals).
>
> Doug Fortune