stuwindsurf

I also have this issue now I have installed everything. It worked fine when I bench tested it, now it's all installed the leadscrew will only turn in reverse regardless...

All sorted! It was just a bad connection on the connector from the circuit board to the servo Thanks Stu

Thanks Graham, I appreciate your reply and encouragement, but I have not been able to use my lathe for the last 2 weeks trying to configure everything and unless I...

Yes it does, but the lowest resolution I can set with the dip switches is 1600 and I want to set it to 1000 so I can set the microsteps...

Thanks, I realise that but not knowing anything about resolution or microsteps I am just trying to follow James setup. He mentions in his video about the Nema 23 servo...

....also in the config menu for the ElS I think it said if you have a leadscrew drive ratio of 3:1 set the resolution to 1000 and the microsteps to...

I have tried communicating with the motor with it both powered and unpowered but neither worked. I believe it just needs 5v from the USB port for the controller to...

> That's the part I can't seem to get my head round and is why I am trying to set the servo res to 1000 then I know I need...

... that's presuming the Nema 23 servo has 1000 steps?? I can't seem to find that information

Ok thanks, I will give it a go later. I do appreciate you looking at this for me.