Hi Nick, Can you post pictures of your control board? It seems like a lot of machines have the updated eeprom, so perhaps yours was updated at some point. As far as connecting your machine to a Windows computer, I have had mixed luck with a serial card, but have had great luck with a USB to db9 cabl...

If you are on Mach 3, you must have a break out board between the drivers and your computer. Find out what that outputs, as well as what power requirements the motors have. You may need to make a large power supply for delivering a lot of clean DC to your steppers (well to your drivers to give to st...

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Were you able to get this sorted? I had previously documented my attempts to get vr turning to run on win 10, but have not had much time to push it forward. The concept is the same for VR milling, and if you are at a loss, perhaps reading this will be of some help: http://www.denfordata.com/bb/viewt...

Hi Steve,
Do you happen to have any pictures or diagrams of the air chuck? Was this machined by denford, or was it a sourced chuck?

well I don't know if you are still checking this, or if you ever got an answer, but this adapter has been working for me with windows 10 and vr milling 5 as well as Vr Turning: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DYNNUS8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 if that link doesnt work in t...

Guess I'm probably going to make a pneumatic collet closer instead! This may be a stupid question, but is the spindle face a standard size? I don't have it in front of me to measure the hole spacing and such, but it seems like there aught to be a collet holder that fits the face.

More power did the trick! I used a laptop power supply, giving 19.5v at 4 amp. Much more than required, but within the range that both the motor and the controller could function. Wiring in the new supply was easy, I ended up just running it in parallel with the ac transformer, as this is controlled...

We have motion!! Tonight I got it all wired up and turning! It seems to struggle with torque, so I am starting to regret wiring my stepper in bipolar series (lower power consumption and torque) I plan to try hooking in a new power supply for that drive, as I would like to make sure it is maxed out o...

Well I always seem to think things will just fall into place. Here is another minor detail I need to sort. my stepper driver is for a 4 wire bipolar motor. I have an 8 wire stepper, wired into 5 wires with a ground for a total of 6 wires in the cable. This is a cool opportunity to learn about bipola...

I'm not sure I said anything you probably didn't already know, but hopefully you can get it cleaned up. That reminds me that I need to either remove my batteries or spray a coating around it for when this inevitably happens to mine! Let us know if you can get it back to functional

Hi Barry, I would suspect the chips are fine, but i would be concerned about the small traces that are pretty toasty as circled below. if there arent that many that are bad, you might be able to just run solder over the trace to make a track, or jump a little wire from point to point. Cant say for s...

I have read somewhere that some of the fancy novaturns had a couple of pneumatic goodies, I am interested in attempting to get an air chuck working on mine in conjunction with a bar puller to make a semi autonomous machine. Im pretty far out from that point, but I was hopeful to find some info about...

While investigating, it seems the "spindle on" command will simply turn the spindle on to the minimum speed defined under "machine parameters." In my head I beleived the front spindle speed would adjust the speed between the minimum and maximum speed, but in reality, it scales the speed around the m...

Everything seems to work great! I will be wiring in everything this week, and i will be able to do some testing next weekend!

So after a few other attempts I tried this: Install and got Vr Milling functional and connected, then install VR Turn in a different directory. I used Program files(x86)/Denford for Vr Milling, and Program Files(x86)/Denford2 for Turning. I dont know if the files are overwriting each other when inst...

So the swap was a success for the lathe, and mostly a success for the mill! (don't have spindle speed control yet on mill) I will be investigating this week.

good question! I have not tried to use the motor with it on there, in this case I was using it to check runnout, then stuck it to the cabinet shortly after!

Yeah, i was actually wondering if there were more settings than what are accessible to change under machine parameters? If not I think i can just take some pictures of the micromill parameter pages, edit the novamill to match, and then select novamill as the device. No need to even open a .mex. That...

So for background: I have freshly swapped a novaturn with a denstep card and a micromill with a nextstep card. Vr milling v5 works great on a fresh install, can connect to mill and jog. Now when Vr turning is installed, is when things get complicated. I could connect to the novaturn, and home it, bu...