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as a fallow up i was also using the wrong driver. an extra driver comes with mach 3 that i never knew about. after watching the video tutorial in the artsoft forum i was able to get everything going...

thanks, the alternate driver made the driver test program work... but i had some decent spikes... so i found the "xp optimize txt" file on the yahoo group and started going down the list.... and it...

I'm using the Mach3 beta demo thing that can be downloaded for free. at first the program would crash my computer every now and then... now it crashes within 10 seconds of opening the program. my...

corky bell "maximum boost"

awsome link, the gun link is awesome as well, the bretta the guy made from billit is crazy.

yeah, i agree. with the small pressures involved, and affordabilty of such a small rotor... i don't think apex seals are terribly important, even if the tips of the rotor wear out over time, pop a...

Heyyyyy got it working with the port card. it's going ultra slow, but i didn't set up the motor tuning yet. sooo my problem was a noisy mainboard port. i have a 25ft parallel cable, and an 8 foot...

i got a port card from compusa. installed it.. set it as LPT2.. but i don't know what address it's at? ex "0x378" is the motherboard printer port, is there a sure fire way to check the address of the...

what card do you reccomend?

awesome, will try this. i have an athlon 1900+ (1.4ghz i believe), i thought that'd be plenty fast, but i'll try turboCNC and let you know the results.

GER21: yeah i tried connecting it directly...

with current setup: hooked up only x-axis, loaded mach 3. same problems.
with only 12" stepper wires, and really long parallel cable, x-axis only, loadeed mach 3. same problem

with 12" stepper...

i'm having problems with the steppers twitching on my mill. where did you get that wire from? i have 10 ft of elcheapo wiring for the steppers that i'm guessing are picking up noise.

does the xylotex board ground them for me? if not, maybe not? the machine itself should be grounded through the spindle motor.

steppers feel pretty locked up with power on, takes a good bit of...

i've been trying to set up my new Taig mill the past few days. i have the Xylotex 3 axis kit, xylotex steppers (269 oz/in), xylotex power supply. I have the driver board mounted with nylon...