[remotecaptures]

I bought a Digital Dream CNC DDUM5 V1.0 5 Axis Mach3 USB Card 5 Axis USB Controller Board and have spent 4 full days trying to get it to work. It connects the Mach 3 and Mach 3 recognizes it's connected but none of the I/O works. I can't toggle a relay and if I hit a limit switch nothing shows up in Mach3. I've mapped the I/O out three times, there's limited user experience for this card online, and the manual is pretty useless. Now I'm looking to buy a new motion control card. Can someone suggest one that is popular and well tested? I was thinking about the Acorn CNC but wanted to see what has worked for people here first.

My card that doesn't work:
https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Dream-.../dp/B00FWNK8L6

[machinehop5]

...is this your current Digital Dream? It's possible all it needs is the Firmware updated.
Firmware download - DDCSV2.1 - Standalone CNC Motion Controller - Digital Dream Technology support

[mactec54]

I bought a Digital Dream CNC DDUM5 V1.0 5 Axis Mach3 USB Card 5 Axis USB Controller Board and have spent 4 full days trying to get it to work. It connects the Mach 3 and Mach 3 recognizes it's connected but none of the I/O works. I can't toggle a relay and if I hit a limit switch nothing shows up in Mach3. I've mapped the I/O out three times, there's limited user experience for this card online, and the manual is pretty useless. Now I'm looking to buy a new motion control card. Can someone suggest one that is popular and well tested? I was thinking about the Acorn CNC but wanted to see what has worked for people here first.

My card that doesn't work:
https://www.amazon.ca/Digital-Dream-.../dp/B00FWNK8L6

Acorn is very good if you go that way and there is plenty of users and help available

[ger21]

If you want to stay with Mach3, there are probably 3 good options.

1) Ethernet Smoothstepper
2) Any controller from CNC Drive, which also give you the option of using UCCNC software.
3) CS Labs CSMIO-IPS or CSMIO-IPM

[mactec54]

If you want to stay with Mach3, there are probably 3 good options.

1) Ethernet Smoothstepper
2) Any controller from CNC Drive, which also give you the option of using UCCNC software.
3) CS Labs CSMIO-IPS or CSMIO-IPM

If his Mach3 came with his machine it may be a Chinese hacked copy which can be a problem

[remotecaptures]

If his Mach3 came with his machine it may be a Chinese hacked copy which can be a problem

Interesting, that's what it is. Maybe I'll try the demo version to be sure and will try to update it if I can also. Never even seen a picture of video of my motion controller card running (looked many places including the manual) so I don't even know what the typical LEDs are while running correctly, fault LEDs, etc.

[mactec54]

Interesting, that's what it is. Maybe I'll try the demo version to be sure and will try to update it if I can also. Never even seen a picture of video of my motion controller card running (looked many places including the manual) so I don't even know what the typical LEDs are while running correctly, fault LEDs, etc.

Post a photo of your Breakout Board Control, someone may recognize it, you could have something as simple as Ports and Pins configuration

[remotecaptures]

Post a photo of your Breakout Board Control, someone may recognize it, you could have something as simple as Ports and Pins configuration

Good idea. Here's a picture of my board:

The board is powered to by USB and 24V. It is recognized that it is connected by my Mach3 software when I plug the USB into the computer but non of the I/O works. When I try an input I never see any indication on my software that it is received and have tried every possible solution I can think of.