Syil stepper drivers

Hi all!

I'm having trouble setting up the stepper drivers on my machine as the only thing it came with was a mach3 config file and minimal information on what is needed to drive the proprietary stepper drives (2 us minimum pulse width is all they give).

Here's what I have done so far:
I have been playing with the timing and can't get a combination that causes any sort of movement. My guesses were based off a config file for a previous model by the same company.
I know the parallel port is set up and sending/receiving signals by BigJohn's tester

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Awesome!

Rob

Thanks man! After a quick overview it looks good. Most of the values seem like they could be correct although the spindle information looks unchanged from the default stepconfig values. I won't be back on the machine for a full test until Friday morning but once that happens I'll give you a full rundown of what I had to change.
Thanks again,
Rob

BigJohnT wrote:

If you zip up the macktree xml file and attach it I can convert it to a Stepconf Wizard file

John[/quote
what was the error John , i get an error also ?]

The configuration file looks good. I still need to set up the spindle but I currently have a problem with the parallel port.

I can play with the value using ptest.hal utility so that program seems to be able to write to the port. When I run LinuxCNC, I know the port is addressed correctly because I can see the signal initialize to high (as the .xml file says the machine wants), but when I try to jog the axis there's no waveform showing up on the pin that I'm probing. This seems to indicate there's something wrong with the pins within HAL. Is that correct? I've been trying to get through the integrator's manual and that looks like a good path for me to pursue. Are there any other areas I should look?