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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Connecting PMDX-126 to ESS

« on: September 20, 2016, 12:33:18 PM »

The instructions say "Connect the PMDX-126 to the smoothstepper using one or two 26-pin female to female ribbon cables"  It doesn't further expand on this.  Should I be using one or two.  My setup is as follows and I plan to draw 5V from the ribbon cable to power the ESS.

Setup:

PMDX-126 (Rev C)
PMDX-134
ESS

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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / Terminal Plug Connect for PMDX-132

« on: February 01, 2016, 11:00:54 AM »

I have a legacy PMDX-132 motherboard that I am using as a 3axis currently and I am adding a 4th axis.  Does anyone know where I can get 4pin terminal plugs for it.  I have no idea where I got the existing plugs I have from.  I purchased the 4pin plugs from PMDX, but the pin distance is too short.  They need to be 5mm. 

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SmartBOB controllers and dedicated accessories / USB Device Not Recognized

« on: January 28, 2016, 06:08:11 PM »

I am trying to get my new control box up and running but keep getting a "USB device not recognized" error. 

So here's the play-by-play.......

I am using a Dell Laptop running Windows 7 64 bit.  I have a PMDX-422 BOB connected to USB.  I am interfacing to a PMDX-134 . 

I installed Mach 4 hobby 4.2.0.2803 

I then installed SmartBOB-USB Mach4 Plug-in as per instructions.  The version is 0.36.171

When I plug the PMDX-422 into my computer as per the instructions, that's when I get the error.