To make a longer story short - I purchased an older New Hermes Vanguard 7200 with a 'modified' EP control module. By modified, I mean that the previous owner wired a parallel port directly to the driver board inside the EP box. I witnessed the machine in operation in this method at the time of purchase. However, I can not interface my Mach3 software to this modified system whatsoever. I verified the ports/pin connections, and have a known working connection (as it interfaces fine with my cheapo Chinese 3020 machine).

Can someone with experience in this field direct me to a setup to use the New Hermes machine (with existing 3-axis 6-pin stepper motors; 1 x 125W asynchronous spindle motor) with a new driver board and power supply? I would like to continue use with Mach3, so parallel input to the board would be great.


Much obliged,
SimpleMachinist.