Originally Posted by
JohnLeslie
I am hoping there are some experienced users here who can advise or direct me to advice on commissioning my new 6040 CNC. As seems to be commonly reported, these machines often come with no support, manuals, discs, etc. That is the case for mine. Just the machine and that's it.
Built a bench for it, hooked it all up and it will not respond either manual or PC control? I'm not even sure where to begin here.
On the manual side, maybe some settings that are not correct on the controller?
On the PC side, I have Mach 3 Demo installed and will purchase full version once this thing is up and running. Running on an old PC with Windows 7 Home Premium. The controller only has a USB port. I do see other ones that are Parallel only, but this one is not one of those.
Here are some pictures to give some indication of what I have: