Linuxcnc for CNC-STEP HIGH Z 400

Hello,

I am desperately trying to setup linux cnc for a CNC-STEP High Z machine with a Zero 3 controller from www.cncstepusa.com/

I have setup things properly I think according to the specs of the motors (200 steps per rev, 10 micro steps, screw pitch of 10mm per rev, max speed at 133 mm/s and to be safe I started with an acceleration of 50 mm/s2) . Also used the config and info from lavalu.de/EMC_Wizard.html

But no joy at all, either with my settings or those from Lavalu.... I just hear some noises in the motors but never get them to move when testing the different axis i stepconf...

Also the 2nd led on the controller which is supposed to indicate an active link to the PC never turns green... Maybe there is some init sequence to enable the controller properly ?

So far CNC-Step are silent and did not provide me with a LinuxCNC config file for their machine... I have sent mine for them to test but no answer....

So this message in case one you came across one of those machines or one of those controller.

Thanks for the help.

According to the manual for the controller LPT pin 16 is a watchdog/chargepump pin. Do you have linuxcnc configured to use the chargepump?

It would be best to post your configuration files in a zip file so we can look at it. We will need your .INI and .HAL files.

Beat you by that much Tom

No, no charge pump is set up...

Thanks guys for this ! Am not at the office right now (am in Europe) so I look forward to try this tomorrow morning.

Attached is my conf.

Forgot to come back here and thank you guys for the help... charge pump was definitely not enabled...

The machine works but I wanted to fine tune it using stepconf, how do you then enable the charge pump to be set while working in stepconf to test speed and acceleration for example ?

Hello, I just acquired a high-z400t with a Zero3 controller and I have the same problem except that the activation of the charge pump does not change anything.
In my case I feel that the movements are well received by the engines (they change noise when I request a movement) but nothing moves, just the sound of engines changes.
I can activate / deactivate the spindle motor.
I think there is just a problem in my configuration (driver timing?) Or parallel port (bios: 0x378 irq7 pcspp / tristate) ...
Do you have a valid stepconf and .al configuration to show me to make a comparison please?
Thank you so much,
Flo