[skyguynca]

Oh I am setting up a lathe. I connected everything by the instructions in the manuals for each item, I set the pins and ports on Mach3 tab, spindle step to pin 1 port 1 and direction to pin 2 port 1, turned on spindle control in Mach3

The SS powers up, and I get the green flashing light.
According to the tunning software for the DG4S the encoder and all is working and communicating.
I have blinking green lights on both smoothstepper and on the DG4S, but nothing moves.


Help please it is driving me crazy

[skyguynca]

OK, UPDATE.....I got it moving, seems that the 5V signal from the C25 was not getting enough power from the smoothstepper board so I went with a higher mA walwart transformer, good to go, I can trigger movement now. However now in the servoconfiguration software when I hit the analyize button so I can see what the current PID settings do, the servo turns the lathe head 180 degrees and them reverses 180 degrees, then repeats it. It is very smooth but I need it to go in one direction.

Any Ideas?

DC Perm Mag 3.2 hp motor
DG4S
AMT-102V encoder
SS with C25 board.