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"So my guess would be that 3 and 4 would be the centre taps"

Gary, that was my guess too for the same reason. If the guess is wrong, but I hook the motors up and try it out, what is the worst...

"A stepper motor is composed of 4 coils, 2 per phase. A 4 wire motor has the center tap between coils tied internally. A 6 wire has the center tap for each coil pair brought out"

If I interpret...

Abasir, thanks for checking on the SloSyn controller. It won't handle STEP/DIR input, so it looks like it is not compatible with Mach 2. I learned a lot from this exercise, even if it didn't yield...

i.e. CAD/CAM synchronizes multiple axis systems from a single point of control.

I work on distributed systems that synchronize state and have multiple points of control, so I was looking at those...

OK, thanks everyone. I guess that the capability for CAD/CAM to talk to multiple controllers and keep them synchronized is not common if it exists at all.

I'll look more closely at the parallel...

Ger21, thanks for the explanation. What are the step and direction signals like that go to the motor driver? Are they also G codes, or are they standardized in some other way, so that Mach2 is...

Hi, I'm still a beginner, same as last week, but I've moved on from trying to figure out what the SloSyn single axis controllers were capable of to a more general question: how do current...

Yes, the indexer is capable of input via either parallel or rs-232. It appears that both ports are needed, since the only mechanical limit switch connections are via the parallel port.

I posted...

I appreciate the offers to help and information provided. The motors are a couple hours south of here and I don't get down there except on weekends. I'll try and get the info together this weekend...

Vacpress, thanks for the info. Is parallel port the most common way to talk to a stand-alone motor controller (i.e. pulse generator as you put it?)? I'm not sure what all the ports on the 3180-PI...

Al, thanks for the information. I was unaware of the hand-held programmer used with these controllers. I was able to talk to them (hooked up to serial port, using HyperTerminal), so I should be...

I have a pair of Slo-Syn 3180-PI motor controllers (programmable indexers).

The manual lists L codes and H codes for program control and N,G,X and F codes for motion programming and has some...

I'd like to get started in cnc, I have a good project lathe (a Litton "Q" lathe), and a friend gave me a pair of new (15 yr. old but unused) slo-syn motor controllers (Slo-Syn calls them programmable...