Michael Arruda
07-10-2016, 4:00 PM
Hey all,
I am finally back up and running with my CNC at home after closing my shop down almost 2 years ago. Everything was working fine before, but now I am having a problem with the G540 not receiving a charge pump signal so I have turned that function off. It worked OK for a couple small cuts, but now I think I am getting stray voltage into the controller or something from the computer- it's getting jittery and losing steps at times.
I was thinking about picking up a Smoothstepper board to aleviate this issue, as it seems to be a parallel port problem. Also, the cable causes drop outs and freezing on the computer if it get's wiggled on the computer side- i'm wondering if the parallel port on the motherboard got knocked while in moving or storage and there could be a nearly broken solder joint or something. Other than a change of venue, everything else is the same on the whole set up.
So, anyone with a smoothstepper that started out with the on board parallel port? See any significant differences?
Another benefit would be the flexibility to run with a laptop instead of the old desktop if I so chose.
-Michael
I am finally back up and running with my CNC at home after closing my shop down almost 2 years ago. Everything was working fine before, but now I am having a problem with the G540 not receiving a charge pump signal so I have turned that function off. It worked OK for a couple small cuts, but now I think I am getting stray voltage into the controller or something from the computer- it's getting jittery and losing steps at times.
I was thinking about picking up a Smoothstepper board to aleviate this issue, as it seems to be a parallel port problem. Also, the cable causes drop outs and freezing on the computer if it get's wiggled on the computer side- i'm wondering if the parallel port on the motherboard got knocked while in moving or storage and there could be a nearly broken solder joint or something. Other than a change of venue, everything else is the same on the whole set up.
So, anyone with a smoothstepper that started out with the on board parallel port? See any significant differences?
Another benefit would be the flexibility to run with a laptop instead of the old desktop if I so chose.
-Michael