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Parallel Port breakout boards, motherboards, and dedicated accessories / K2 Relay & PMDX 171 Hall Effect Sensor ?
« on: June 14, 2015, 10:54:58 PM »
I have the PMDX 126 board, PMDX 107 speed controller, and an ESS.
The first question is most likely a simple one, but I can't find the answer.
Everything seems to be working, but I'd like to use the K2 relay on the PMDX 126 board to turn on/off a mister/fog buster type coolant setup, but with the PMDX 107 it uses pin 14 to turn on/off the spindle. I'm currently using K1 for this, but would like to add flood coolant later too.
Is there a way to still use the K2 relay with this setup? I looked through the manuals and some of the threads on here but can't find an answer.
Second question is about the PMDX 171 Hall Effect Sensor.
I want to hook it up to read the spindle speeds and hopefully other functions later, but I have no idea how it should be connected to the PMDX 126 other then the +5v & GND.
I have no idea if I need to use the F or T terminal to send the signal to the PMDX 126?
And I'm not sure which terminal to use on the PMDX 126, I thought the PMDX 171 just got hooked up to any "input"? But the part that's confusing me the most is in the PMDX 171 manual where it says that all PMDX boards already have "pull-up resistors", but the only thing I noticed in the PMDX 126 manual was J12 pin15.
I don't know if I'm thinking this wrong or not, but do all the "inputs" have pull-up resistors, so I can use any of the input terminals?
If I can use any input, I'd like to use the J11 Connector and just want to make sure that those terminals would be Port 2 and whatever Pin # the manual shows, right?
What about Mach3, this will be in the "Inputs" tab and the spindle is "Index", right? Active "High" or "Low"?
The first question is most likely a simple one, but I can't find the answer.
Everything seems to be working, but I'd like to use the K2 relay on the PMDX 126 board to turn on/off a mister/fog buster type coolant setup, but with the PMDX 107 it uses pin 14 to turn on/off the spindle. I'm currently using K1 for this, but would like to add flood coolant later too.
Is there a way to still use the K2 relay with this setup? I looked through the manuals and some of the threads on here but can't find an answer.
Second question is about the PMDX 171 Hall Effect Sensor.
I want to hook it up to read the spindle speeds and hopefully other functions later, but I have no idea how it should be connected to the PMDX 126 other then the +5v & GND.
I have no idea if I need to use the F or T terminal to send the signal to the PMDX 126?
And I'm not sure which terminal to use on the PMDX 126, I thought the PMDX 171 just got hooked up to any "input"? But the part that's confusing me the most is in the PMDX 171 manual where it says that all PMDX boards already have "pull-up resistors", but the only thing I noticed in the PMDX 126 manual was J12 pin15.
I don't know if I'm thinking this wrong or not, but do all the "inputs" have pull-up resistors, so I can use any of the input terminals?
If I can use any input, I'd like to use the J11 Connector and just want to make sure that those terminals would be Port 2 and whatever Pin # the manual shows, right?
What about Mach3, this will be in the "Inputs" tab and the spindle is "Index", right? Active "High" or "Low"?