03-22-2014, 08:55 PM
For someone who hates computers as much as me this wasn't the project to jump into. Spent the last few days trying to figure out what this thing is doing and getting close to no where. Could get the motors to run so thought I had it then couldn't get the interface to the plasma cutter to work. Reloaded serial port drivers on the computer till my eyes hurt from staring at the screen all to no avail, but I think there was a problem there too. They send a cd with the operating software MACH on it and a bunch of interfaces, two of which lined up to the name of the hardware I bought, with version II and IV, figured it had to be the newest, WRONG version IV is for an ethernet driven system, mine isn't, reloaded the interface and we have lights flashing (when they're supposed to and voltages changing when you hit the test button. So we're closer to making sparks.
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Greg
Greg