On Sat, 2016-04-02 at 18:00 -0600, jeshua wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 28 March 2016 19:48:26 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> On Monday 28 March 2016 16:21:36 jeshua wrote: > >>>> On Mar 26, 2016, at 7:50 AM, Sarah Armstrong > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> this all depends if you have connected the EN - ( enable - ) of > >>>> the stepper drives , > >>>> all the + pins go to 5v > >>>> step - = pul & dir - = direction > >>>> > >>>> if you have it's probable that you have this inverted or requires > >>>> inverting , for testing just leave this unconnected until you have > >>>> everything running beware some Bobs also require an enable input , > >>>> although at first glance this particular board looks > >>>> straightforward > >>> > >>> The motors go dead when I unplug the enable. > >>> > > Which tells me they need an active enable, so hook the 5 volts to the + > > terminal, and something that goes to ground when LCNC is enabled to all > > the - enable terminals. Or, just hard wire the - enable to ground them > > & leave them on. > > Hi Gene, > > Brilliant!!! You made one really happy person (plus gave me the satisfaction > of being able to help a friend) thanks to you! > > That was it - we needed to run negative to al the negative terminals. > > I wish you could have seen his face light up when we got the motor to move > the first time! Thank you!
so now you can retry my config problably this time with luck :-) > > Cheers, > > Jeshua Lacock > Founder/Engineer > <3DTOPO.com> > GlassPrinted.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
