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Mach3 has a system restore up to the previous 22 runs. I did that with no luck. I have not did a reload of mach3 and the plugin yet. I will try and get a snap shot of my config. Screen. You are talking about the ajax config screen right? Thanks for the help.

Ok I have done some more testing. I swiched x and y axis motor power and encoders to see if the problem followed the motor and it did not. Still said x axis drive fault. I will do a system check here in a while and see if i get any errors. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Scott.

Come to think of it, I noticed the other day a little bit of noise coming from my x motor. I thought it was a ballscrew bearing. Could be a the motor? I have always had an issue with that axis. When i tuned that motor the setting were a lot different than the other two motors. If I put the same sett...

forgot to mention limits are jumped.

I have been a proud owner of a dc310b and a mpu 11 for a couple of years now. Always works great. Today I started the mill up and hit reset. "X axis drive fault". I have done a search and was unable to find any of my type of situation. I checked connections, all lights on the boards are gr...

Check out "MPG2 wiring and MPU11" on page 3 of the forum. I used the same style of enconder wheel as you did but you have to wire in a microchip that makes the correct output.

They have helped me out when I needed it and many other people also. I am very happy with my dc310b and mpu11 setup on my bridgeport type mill. It is required that you have a little common knowlege like, how to read and look at pictures which it seems captain midnight is having troubles with. Sorry ...

My motor has done the same thing before and it turned out I needed to switch my power wires around on the motor. I swaped the red and black on my dc310b connection and then the motor worked fine

I would reboot the operation system and see if that corrects the problem being it worked fine before.

I do know that if you do not hit f1 as soon as the motor stops you will not get your plot.