Group: DynoMotion	Message: 10373	From: cnc_machines	Date: 10/24/2014
Subject: KStep Digital IO

Greetings,

I am trying to set up my limit switches on the Kstep board. In doing so I have wired 24V+ to pin 8 on Kstep JP33. I am then grounding any of the pins 9-24 to see if I have it wired up correctly. I am monitoring the "Virtual /KStep" screen under "Digital IO" and the box doesnt change state when I ground any of the pins.

Could I be doing something wrong? Does a setting need to be changed, or a program running to check the state of these bits?

Maybe I am missing something on the configuration side?

Thanks,

Scott

Group: DynoMotion	Message: 10374	From: Moray Cuthill	Date: 10/24/2014
Subject: Re: KStep Digital IO

Scott,

you need to add the following line to your init file-

KStepPresent=TRUE;

Or for testing you can simply open a thread in the C Program editor in KMotion, and just run that line along with the usual include line and main function such as-

#include "KMotionDef.h"

main()
{
KStepPresent=TRUE;

}

Moray

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:46 PM, cnc_machines@... [DynoMotion] <DynoMotion@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Greetings,

I am trying to set up my limit switches on the Kstep board. In doing so I have wired 24V+ to pin 8 on Kstep JP33. I am then grounding any of the pins 9-24 to see if I have it wired up correctly. I am monitoring the "Virtual /KStep" screen under "Digital IO" and the box doesnt change state when I ground any of the pins.

Could I be doing something wrong? Does a setting need to be changed, or a program running to check the state of these bits?

Maybe I am missing something on the configuration side?

Thanks,

Scott

Group: DynoMotion	Message: 10375	From: Tom Kerekes	Date: 10/24/2014
Subject: Re: KStep Digital IO

Hi Scott,

To have KFLOP update the Digital Status you must tell KFLOP that a KSTEP is connected by executing this line of C code:

KStepPresent=TRUE;

See the section on Digital Status here:

http://dynomotion.com/Help/SchematicsKStep/UsingKStep.htm

HTH

Regards

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Subject: [DynoMotion] KStep Digital IO

Group: DynoMotion	Message: 10376	From: cnc_machines	Date: 10/24/2014
Subject: Re: KStep Digital IO

Well.. I just reread the KStep configuration and see that I need to initiate the multiplexer in the init file. Did that and it is working great.

Group: DynoMotion	Message: 10403	From: cnc_machines	Date: 10/28/2014
Subject: Re: KStep Digital IO

Thanks again everyone for the helpful responses!