Hi.
This is the first time for me on this forum so please be patience with me.
I have billed a CNC machine and now I'm trying to configure the software (mach3) to start.
I have purchased a licence of mach3, and I'm using a 5 Axis parallel port breakout board.
I managed to run the machine and set the motor tuning and most of the ports and pins settings.
I encountered with two problems till now.
I managed to run the spindle on my machine but for some reason the speed of the spindle is not working by the software.
The VFD parameters are correct because after a lot of experimentation I decided to short out the FOR and DCM and connected a 1.5 battery between the ACM and VI and the spindle ran very slow.I checked the voltage from the output of my breakout board which suppose is from 0 to 10 volts but for some reason it is always 9.8 volts no matter what I do in the software. I think that the problem is something from the software configurations but although I tried to search on you tube and google I found nothing that worked for me.
The second problem is. Because the machine is a bit large I had to put two motors on the Y axis and now I have Y and A axis slaved together. When I'm trying to home the machine my Y and A axis moves together but although I have two limit switches on each side, meaning one on the Y axis and one on the A axis it seems that the Y limit switch is only working. My home slave with master axis on general configurations is not checked but still the problem remains the same.
Can please someone help me with this problem.
Thank you in advance