Hey, I just ordered the encoder board from Rogers machine. Plugged it in and haven't gotten it to work at all, was wondering if anyone had experience running it here.
Sent an email to Roger 2 days ago and am expecting a response at any time. But since I am impatient, is there anyone here who would know something about this?
Basically, the point of this board was to get encoder functionality going with Mach 3. I plugged the board into 115v and plugged in the LPT1 to the Xylotex controller, 4 axis box. From there loaded the provided DLL file into Mach 3 and enabled it. I'm running a laptop computer with no secondary parallel port. So I didn't enable port #2 in Mach 3. Maybe I have the pinouts wrong for the interface. I'll double check that but pretty sure I checked over their help file for it.
if this board doesn't end up working out, can the encoders be plugged directly into the LPT1 port? and if so how difficult is it to know which pins to plug them into? I guess the xylotex manual would tell me which pins are available.
It would suck though, not getting this interface board working. Let you guys know if/when Rogers gets back to me on this one. Thanks for any help.