is it posible to have the card and cable tested ?

i am near goole east yorks , we have made a home made cable to do away with the connection on the side of the control box , 9 pin to 9 pin

hi steve,

the machine is a micro router v3 . i have tried turning the ball screws with the power turned off and you can turn them easily, turn the power back on and you cant turn them same for all 3 axis ?. yes have problems with machine conncting

back on the case, been busy with life and work. fired the router up today to see if it had mended itself but no its still not connecting with the pc or vice versa. but have noticed that the motors are all warm ? so there must be power to them ? why would they get warm if not. i wonder if its tring t...

will try another pc. when i first tried it with a home made cable it was connecting and working baring a few minor glitches i.e limit switches and a homing fault . i nocked the cable and nocked of the sheilding conection , we then made another cable and since then its not connecting. so i could only...

just tried this in mintman and it say comms not ok

i think i have v2.31 loaded

and have found

mintfinder
mintman v2.1
mintman ns

but dont seem to have mintman.exe ?

Martin wrote:Can you try connecting with Mintman that will be in the VRMilling directory.

will give it a try, if i can find the directory . cheers simon

wanted for a 2001 v3 microrouter, the cables from the control card to casing (9 pin to rs232) and cable from case to pc (rs232 to 9 pin coms) as i am having trouble with the router connecting to the pc after trying to use other cables. or even the loan of the requested cables just to see if it is a ...

had a another go with the router today and its still not working. its still not connecting to the pc, i think ?. i have checked the lead and thats ok . the lead is a 9 pin to 9 pin i have bypassed the rs232 socket on the side of the control box and used a multi connector block to save re soldering u...

i forgot to add that i can now shut the software down to then enable shut down of pc etc , dont no what was causing this issue ???.

update, i have now managed to change the machine type to v3 :) , just need to sort the router/pc connection problem next :roll: . just been watching the display when turning on and off, when the display lights up it starts with an "L" with a flashing dot to the bottom left then turns to an 8 with no...

right, had another go today. the 7 segment display is lit with a figure 8 but some times you have to switch the machine on and off a few times before the display lights up. also the machine is not connecting to the pc now, it could be the home made rs232 cable but i have not had chance to check (the...

spoke too soon, powered up the router this morning and the vacuum pump will not work at all now ? also the router is not connecting to to the pc, its showing an error message saying the machine is not connected check the rs232 cable. so i cnnot check the switches. here is a pic of the box on the scr...

powered up the router this morning and the vacuum pump will not work at all now ? also the router is not connecting to to the pc, its showing an error message saying the machine is not connected check the rs232 cable. so i cnnot check the switches. here is a pic of the box on the screen with the cod...

had a bit of spare time today so tried the link, all is good now with software i think :D . just a few minor glitches with the machine to sort one of which is i cannot shut the pc down as the software will not close, pc fault ? software fault ? or router fault ?. another glitch is a box on the scree...

had a bit of spare time today so tried the link, all is good now with software i think :D . just a few minor glitches with the machine to sort one of which is i cannot shut the pc down as the software will not close, pc fault ? software fault ? or router fault ?. another glitch is a box on the scree...

alterd the cable and the pc now knows the router is connected. just having some software issues i.e licence key is not opening the software, see my other post in the software section cheers simon This post has details of how the cable should appear from PC 9-way to Baldor Control 9-way (use this inf...

my license key does not seem to work. have change pc and uploded the 2.12 version of vr milling (from a genuine denford cd) and its not asking for the licence key flopy to be installed, which i thought it would do. its saying the dongle is not connected. what have i done wrong ?. cheers simon

just started to get my router working and have a few questions (micro router v3 serial no h01633, oct 2001). first, i have an rs232 cable not supplied with the machine. will this cable work or do i need to alter it ? and if so does anyone have a diagram of the cable. i would also like to know which ...