Before I get to the issues I'm having, I thought maybe I could ask for help in recreating the documents for these machines.
Lots of it is undocumented, or just horribly documented, and what is in the documents, is just barely enough to get the machine working, as for any settings that have to do with tuning the machine, you are left on your own.
Anyways, I'm having an issue with my 3040, it seems to be losing/gaining steps. I've tried calibrating steps with mach3, but the problem still persists, so I'd like to try changing the micro stepping, and/or motor current.
I noticed that when I use the machines manual controls, the motors sound much different then when they are controlled from mach3, so I'm wondering if it has something to do with the current.
Unfortunately the English documents are horrible, and the support from the seller is even worse.
I've been trying to ask him for the limit switch pin out for mach3, and he has no idea.
So problem 1, does anyone know how to change the micro stepping?
In problem 3, Image 4 - 7, there is a setting for manual control only.
There is also this image in the documents, which makes me think there are dip switches for changing these settings, but if manual steps can be changed digitally maybe mach3 can too?
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Problem 2, does anyone know the correct pinout for the limit switches? (I'm using a parallel port)
Here is what are in the documents, but I'm really confused to what it all means, mach3 is setup from the second image, but I can't see any correlation between the 2.
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I'm guessing these pins are on the MCU? Cause the parallel port pinout couldn't work with these, as the Y axis is 16, and thats the reset pin on the parallel port.
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Problem 3, does anyone know what the options in the display do? Here are some pictures, I've included ones from my machine, and then their documents.
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Here is what I know, I'd really appreciate if someone could help me fill in the blanks(???). I plan to create new english documents so everyone who owns one of these machines will actually know all the settings there machine has.
Image 1 : Status Screen
-HYCNC = (Company name)
-MLON/MLOFF = ??? {Documents = Under normal manual switch}
-ESON/ESOFF = Limit Switch Status (limit switches do not work when controlled by mach3 though) {Documents = Limit switch under normal conditions}
XYZA = Machine coordinates (Does not update when controlled by mach3, need more pinout info)
Image 2: Limit switch settings
Sy LimT: ON/OFF = Limit switch toggle {Documents = Set limit on or off}
st Ligt: #S = ??? (Value is presumably Seconds, but for what?) {Documents = Under normal manual switch}
em SpiE: ON/OFF = ??? {Documents = Under normal manual switch}
ST MunL: ON/Off = ??? {Documents = Under normal manual switch}
Image 3: ??? (NOTHING IN DOCUMENTS)
Or StaT: ON/OFF = ???
ig RaiE: #mm = ???
in ProF: X*Y Z* = ???
ST DiaR: #mm = ???
Image 4 - 7: Stepper Motor Settings
X/Y/Z/A SubN: #<#> = Setting microsteps for manual control {Documents= Set the X/Y/Z/A-Axis drive segments)
Ax PulE: #L = Steps per inch??? for manual {Documents = Set the X/Y/Z/A-axis 1mm need pulse}
is SpeD: #/S = Manual Move Speed {Documents = Set manually controlled stepper speed}
ST Mode: -$ = ??? {Documents=Set up manually controlled single-step or continuous}
Image 8: PC Path Recording (You can kind of understand what each thing does, but using them is another story, pressing run made my machine run towards the wall, with seemingly nothing recorded)
PC = (Label) Recording source
REC= Start recording???
#### = Segments to record
RUN= Run Recording???
Image 9: Manual Path Recording (Just like PC Path Recording, same thing happens)
MLST = (Label) Recording source
REC= Start recording???
#### = Segments to record
RUN= Run Recording???
