I have recently constructed an EVO machine, with some mechanical "upgrades" to make it better. It appears that the mechanical stuff is the easy part. I am running Vcarve, Mach3, on a 64 bit machine, which I am told should not be a problem. Running a cat 5 cable out of the computer to the smooth stepper and the ribbon cable to the gecko board. Dropped a little more money to get the stuff through CNC router parts, but this doesn't seem to do the trick. Have spent a lot of hours adjusting the config to the instructions from CNCRP, warp9, gecko, etc. and nothing seems to work. I am about to bypass the ESS and run a parallel cable out of an old computer just out of frustration. I have tweaked the Mach3 config file, made sure of the addresses per the instructions, and the nice boards just sit there and flash at me. Any body have any ideas?
John Lindsay