[davidmccormick6]

Just a quick newbie question. If I want a 3 axis with 2 steppers on x. For a total of 4 steppers, can i hook all of them up to a db25-1205 breakout board?

[john-100]

provided your control software lets you slave one axis output with another
the only restriction if your connecting the breakout board to a PC's parallel printer port

will be assigning the 4 out pins from the same data latch ,
preferably pins 2 to 9 - that would of sent the data to the printer

say 2 & 3 for the master X axis and 4 & 5 for the slave X axis , 6 & 7 for the Y axis and 8 & 9 for the Z axis

don't use 2 pins from the data latch (pins 2 to 9) and 2 pins from the control latch (pins 1 , 14 , 16 & 17)

John

[davidmccormick6]

Thanks John. I will be using Mach 3 for the software. I was just wondering about the hardware. So i wire them all up the same and slave one in mach3? Im sorry about all the questions but im still in the purchasing of parts stage and want to make sure im purchasing the correct things. Thanks