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I have a mill and a router that I would like to run off of the same computer. The mill is running fine using the 416 and  am just finishing up building the router which will use the 411 and Gecko 540. I'm not planning on running them at the same time and thought there would be no issues in setting up Mach4 in a new directory and  loading the plug-in into the new directory as well.

Before i screw anything up, as I said the mill is running fine, i wanted to make sure i wasnt creating a problem for myself by doing this.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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General Discussion / PMDX-416/407 Connection Issues
« on: March 31, 2020, 04:07:37 PM »
Hello All,

I am trying to replace an dead card on a Precision Mathews PM-45M mill with the 416/407 combo. I have about a third of it working as I have been able to get the the table to move thru Mach4 using jogging on the keyboard. Im guessing I may have the e-stop wired incorrectly as i dont get a shutdown when pressed. My real issue is the spindle. I followed (or at least I thought I did) the instructions Bob wrote up to connect the 407 to a VFD and control spindle direction. I made the changes in Mach4 as the paper showed but I cannot get the spindle to move through the keyboard. The machine originally had relays controlling the VFD, but following the instruction sheet I wired directly to the VFD form the 416/407 boards.

At this point I would be happy just getting the spindle to move forward. If anyone has any ideas on what I may be doing wrong I would appreciate the guidance. The machine has sat under cover for quite awhile after the board died and with everything being what it is I decided to take advantage of the extra tie and see if I couldnt get the the thing to work. I attached  a simple diagram that shows my connections, hopefully someone can tell what I need to do.

Thanks in advance
Cullen

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