Driver Alarm

[derekgirven]

Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help, I had a problem with my movement in the Y axis.
it started as a growling noise then the movement just stopped .

I tried changing motors to a new motor and driver .I narrowed it down to the brown wire in a new cable to the motor (after three days ) it seemed to have a break somewhere in the line.

I then tested it the y moved fine was so happy, that I forgot to check that my one x motor was disconnected to its cable . the X moved,it then tripped the reset, then I got a five light flashing on the alarm button.

I reconnected but it still flashes ,I changed the motor cables around still the same thing . I swapped the drivers out I still get it ,it changed to 3 flashes. which I think is over power to the driver ?

If I look at the main board on the pins to the driver there is a alarm reset pin ,and on the board near the driver power input there is a driver reset . does anyone know how to reset the driver ?
I have by passed the cable by putting the motor direct to the driver ,tried a different motor . tried a different driver.


Somewhere on a driver site I am sure I saw that you had to energize pin 21 22 .

Any help would be great here.

[Brady Watson]

1) Check that the rainbow motor connector from the driver to the board is correctly seated for all channels and make SURE that none of them are staggered off a pin - this is not hard to do.

2) Make sure the e-stop didn't get triggered while you were messing about.

3) Take a few pictures and post them of what you have going on there.

-B

[derekgirven]

Hi Brady , thanks for the help. I ended up having soo many faults it became funny after a while. the driver alarm still puzzles me . I changed drivers and after finding a faulty new cable ,that stopped . I then had a problem with the z only going one way no matter if you gave it a positive or negative value . that came down to a incompatible card ,the one that stands up (the usb card) . I had a new version on a older board . soo its been fun. besides loss to the port every two seconds . I have movement ( i think its the usb to serial adapter on that one )