I have just bought a Micromill 2000 and I'm trying to make it work but having a hell of a problem with getting the software to communicate with the machine. I keep getting the same error in the V5 software, which generally tells me that the Serial Port is wrong, but I'm sure it's set to the same settings as the Micromill 2000 default settings in the V5 program.
My controller is flashing . and showing L, which I believe means that it is working and it's waiting for the Serial Port to communicate with it. The Version on the chip is Beta, just beta, nothing else. And the version on the panel on the side is 2.13. It's from 2002.
I was told when I bought it that is was standard rs232 but I'm lost. I'm using a UGREEN USB to RS232 adapter right now. My machine has a Serial Port on it, so I have ordered a 10ft cable for that to bypass the adapter, in case that is the problem.
Can anyone direct me to the correct serial settings? Or any other information about this machine.
Thanks
Dan
Denford Micromill 2000 - Serial Port Settings.
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Re: Denford Micromill 2000 - Serial Port Settings.
Not being familiar with the UGREEN converter I looked it up and apparently the chipset they use can be troublesome with some OS and versions. Things should be OK with the genuine RS232 port. Having worked in software in the past and with equipment doing RS232 comms the company standardised on FTDI chipset based RS232 converters as they worked, the only thing needed was to set the latency in the driver settings to the minimum 1ms IIRC as we were using 115kbaud and could get timeouts with longer latency times.