[mmedina1976]

For the last 10 months (during my Cancer surgery, chemo, and exams) I have built a CNC router.
Now I'm trying to wire it, and it's just not coming together. So I need help. I've attached a diagram,
and hope someone can help me.

Thanks in advance. MMM

[louieatienza]

Glad your up and about with your CNC... The legends are hard to read when zoomed out. But it looks like you could just get a 25 pin d-sub connector, and wire the pins to the corresponding pins on the driver. Or if soldering is not your forte, you can get a parallel port breakout board. The voltage + and - goes from the corresponding outputs of your power supply. + to +, - to -. You can use a USB cable to power the drive board +5, and -5v. You then just figure out which leads from the stepper go together, and wire them to the drive... Doesn't matter which is A of B as long as the pairs are together; you can change direction easily in Mach3 or LinuxCNC.

[mmedina1976]

I have 3- Nema 23 stepper motors, 3- TB6560A single axis stepper motor controllers, 1- Mach3 D305 controller (parallel/usb), 6 limit switches, and 1 emergency stop button.
I know how to wire the steppers to their controllers, and to their power; but, I am having some problem wiring the stepper motor controllers to the Mach3 controller. Question-
when the stepper controller says GND- does that mean to hook it up to the GND on the control card or the GND on the power supply:::for example: CLK+ (step) to P2- X Pulse,
CLK- (GND) to ____________________. There are 4 screws on the e-stop button, and only one place to put it on the Mach3 controller. There are 6 limit switches and only 1 place
on the Mach3 controller for each axis. I know this sounds stupid, but I've been reading a lot on the web, on the sites that carry the products, and I am more confused than ever. HELP!