I was wondering if I could ask you about an issue I’ve been having with my Sherline mill and Mach 3.
First let me tell you about my setup. I’m running Mach 3 (R3.043.066) on a Sherline Mill 5400 setup,
with a DeepGroove1 Controller Box (Gecko 4 axis), also I have a Soigeneris Ethernet Smooth Stepper (SSENC-2). My XLM file was provided by Soigeneris.
I did my Sherline/Mach 3 (ports and pins, motor speeds, and others) setup by using tutorials I found on YouTube.
My issue is this. When I open Mach 3, and run the profile given to me by someone from Soigeneris,
it seem that my X-axis runs in the positive and minus direction, even though, I’m only pressing
the left minus arrow key.
Let me explain. If I press and hold, the “left minus” arrow key, the table will move to the left. If I stop, press the “left minus” arrow again, it will then move to the right, or “right plus” direction. There is no rhyme or reason to when it will run in the wrong direction. And it seems to be only the X-Axis that does this. The Z and the Y Axis’s do not have this issue. It’s driving me mad.
I assume that this is a “Ports and Pins” issue. I’ve looked at the Pins config screen, but I don’t see anything odd about the settings. I’m stuck and don’t know the first thing about how
to correct this problem.
Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.
-EM