Connection trouble shooting

[TomB]

Hello

I have a Denford MicroRouter and love it so picked up a MicroMill 2000 when one came up and this is where my problem lies.

The router works perfectly but the Micromill will not connect.

It is the legacy Denstep board and i am running VR milling version 5. The cable is from my Router which works fine.

Here are a few pictures showing what settings i am using.

Any input would be appreciated.

Cheers

[Martin]

The MicroMill/MicroTurn use a different lead to connect to the machine. You will need what we call a pin to pin cable.

You can also swap the wires on pins 2 & 3 on the RS232 lead inside the machine.

[TomB]

Hi Martin

Thank you for getting back to me, that would explain it then.

I do have one of these cables lying around: https://www.lindy.co.uk/cables-adapters ... -p528/s670

Could i swap the pins over and use this maybe?

[TDIPower]

I'm not a 100% but Martin may be having a 'blonde' moment. Isn't pins 2 and 3 to swap over as they would be the tx/rx lines for RS232 or and here is why I'm not 100% does the micromill not run TX/RX on 2 and 3?

Pete

[TomB]

Cheers for the help guys.

Here is a picture of the inside of the 25pin connector.

[Martin]

Yes it's pins 2 & 3. (Changed original post).

You should be able to use the Lindy cable without making any changes.

[TomB]

Now this is the odd bit, my MicroRouter set up works perfectly but when i change the Denford Machine cable to the Lindy cable linked above it cannot connect to the MicroRouter??

[TomB]

I belled the cable out and it had a fault, used another cable and we are up and running.

Thanks guys for taking the time to help, time to make some chips.

[cherishjoo]

Glad to hear that!

[TDIPower]

Great feeling to get things up n running !

Pete