Help me wire CNC (stepper motor controller+driver)?

Hello I just bought some stuff to begin building my 3axis(at first) CNC milling machine.
I can'r figure out thw wiring/ connecting between the stepper driver and controller?
It's connected to the computer with a DB25 connector ("plug") and the terminals are named:
P1,P2,P3,P4,P5,....P15.

Is there a way to know what is what?
(please take a look at pictures)

BTW. it's for running/controlling 3pcs. Nema23 stepper motors and I got a bigger driver to run a Nema34 stepper (supposed to be the spindle)

hope you can help me, I'm in no rush, but it could be nice to see the motors running and such so I can make that work while I'm designing/redesigning/build the actual machine...

Comments

[iceng]

IF you are writing the software then your software decides which output
is P1through P15 for motor direction phases and step clock times 3.

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[lordl9999]

so I can completely choose by myself?
example: it doesn't make a difference if i connect x-axis to P7+P8 or connect it to P12+13 as long as i tell the software which it's connected to? (I asume I can't connect to GND's but the other ones are just "free"?)

[iceng]

You are writing the software to run three motors ?

It looks like each DQ542 drives a single motor and
requires an Enable, Direction and clock Pulse bit.

So, X-axis DQ545 you could use ;

• P8=Enable
• P7=Direction
• P6=Pulse

Y-axis DQ545 you could use ;

• P3=En
• P2=Dir
• P1=Clk

Z-axis DQ545 you could use ;

• P11=En
• P12=Dir
• P13=Clk  or  P14=Clk  or  P4=Clk

I am surprised that the company that makes the electronics
you purchased does not also provide the software ?

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[lordl9999]

I bought it from Ebay, I think that's why I didn't get anny instructions.
ok thanks for your help
yes I'm writing the program myself.

btw. what the differece between clck and dir??

[iceng]

DIR is the nomenclature for the direction bit in software lingo.
CLK is for the clock is for PUL is for the pulse rate line ( wire ).

Stepper motors need to start with a slow pulse rate
and accelerate ( speed up ) to the desired travel velocity.
Then stepper motors need to decelerate ( slow down )
before stopping.

Simply starting a stepper motor at the full speed rate ( if it runs at all )
will make it slip intended steps making a CNC distortion of the target.

The software must anticipate the desired distance of each motor travel
in clock pulses and use a portion for speed up and a portion for slow
to a stop.

This requirement really gets involved when a simple 2D circle is
to be cut starting and stopping, now think 3D !!

Good Sadw writing luck.

[lordl9999]

I see, thank you for you very great explanation :)

[lordl9999]

thank you!
is there an instructable/ guide to how thats done right somewhere?
thinking of using Mach3 haven't tried it yet, but looks like that's pretty common, so I'll go for that)

[iceng]

Several more items,

There must be a very good electrical ground wire connection
between the electronics.

The Nema23 ( a body size reference ) stepper motors come in
different torques, coil currents and voltages.

Your questions come off sounding like someone with no
machine language programming experience.

And I take back the z-axis because P10,P11,P12 & P15 are inputs
So z-axis can be P16=En, P9=Dir, P5=Clk and the Spindle=P17..

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