Connecting multiple input signals that can cause emergency stop

Tuesday, 09 March 2021 Sometimes a need arises that, besides ESTOP input, some additional inputs are used to cause ESTOP condition and stopping the work process. These can be for example error signals from…

Possible origins of connection problems between USB-MC motion controller and PC

Sunday, 05 August 2018 Suppressing parallel port from modern computers and transition to external motion controllers that are used to control CNC machines, has lead to a significant advance in performances and quality of…

Connecting drives from other manufacturers to USB-MC motion controller and USB-UIO1 breakout board

Saturday, 18 March 2017 Control system that consists of USB-MC motion controller combined with breakout board USB-UIO1 is designed to enable connecting up to 4 microstep drives MST-107 and/or DC servo drives DCS-3010 and/or…

Jogging using MPG and USB-MC motion controller

Thursday, 08 December 2016 One of the enhancements that are brought by USB-MC CNC motion controller is the hardware MPG jogging mode. Watch video guide that has comparison of software MPG jogging modes of…

How to utilize the analog input on USB-MC motion controller for the FRO function?

Thursday, 08 December 2016 USB-MC motion controller, among many enhancements and new functions that offers in comparison to classic input-output boards which are connected to LPT port, also has one analog input that can…

Control of spindle revolution speed using PWM or STEP/DIR signals

Friday, 30 September 2016 Read this article in paper form Besides relays that are used for switching spindle on and off, Mach3 supports two ways for controlling spindle revolution speed. using PWM signal and…

CONVERT DC MOTOR INTO DC SERVO MOTOR

Monday, 03 October 2016 Building DIY CNC machines is becoming more and more popular. On the other hand, sometimes it is fairly hard to find appropriate DC servo motors. This page describes how to…

Setting up Index input for monitoring of spindle revolution speed using USB-MC motion controller

Friday, 23 September 2016 Read this article in paper form For spindle revolution speed monitoring, besides Audioms Automatika doo Ethernet or USB line of motion controllers such as USB-MC motion contoller, some revolution sensor…

CONNECTING USB-MC MOTION CONTROLLER TO EXISTING CNC CONTROL SYSTEMS

Saturday, 17 September 2016 The last two decades have seen enormous development of CNC control systems based on PC computer as control unit. Thereby, parallel printer port (LPT), because of some of its hardware…

Manual control of DC servo motor using MPG/encoder and DC servo drive DCS-3010

Tuesday, 29 March 2016 Manual control of DC servo motor using MPG/encoder and DCS-3010 Few years ago I was contacted by a colleague who specializes in hand made springs. He runs a small-scale production.…