@bar I’m having a similar issue. I successfully cut the final sled last weekend but then I went to run my first real cut today and all motors fail.
Per @marlon61 I have checked all cables and everything is plugged in correctly and the green light is on. (Although I noticed that the yellow cable on the z-axis is severed at the point of connection on the motor.)
I have uninstalled and reinstalled arduino/firmware and groundcontrol
I attempted to test motors/encoders, which is where I got the error messages above
I also attempted to calibrate and, sure enough, on the “Orient each sprocket” step, Left Sprocket and Right Sprocket actions are all unresponsive.
When all three motors fail the issue is usually with the 12v power supply. Is the light on the power supply itself on and is there a light on next to the plug where the power supply attaches?
@bar thanks so much for the quick response. Alas, my tail is between my legs on this one. Your response prompted me to revisit the assembly guide and, lo and behold, I had the 12v in the microcontroller. Shame! Mea culpa on that one.
I am having this same issue. I test the motors and nothing happens. no noise, or green light changing on the board, and I still get a motor fail on all motors? I tried running a extension cord direct and even trying different outlets, uninstalled all the software and reinstalled all the latest versions. It worked fine a month ago when I last used it. What am I missing? I have really enjoyed the machine and would really like to continue to.
This issue with all of the motors failing is almost always an issue with the power connection. Do you see a blue light on the power supply and a green light on the Arduino shield which goes on and off as you plug and unplug the power supply?
We’ll need a little more information to help you troubleshoot. Start with the “All motors fail” section in the wiki and let us know that you have checked and give us all those results.
@Ryan_Carlson, your picture of your controller with the green light and the plug in the right port was so pretty I added it to the troubleshooting wiki. Thanks for posting it!
Hi, followed your instructions and also did a complete 're start. The motors have worked in allowing me to do most of the calibrating,.moving adjusting the chain but did not always respond when even doing that initially.
There is a log.txt in the GC folder, but that gets really big if not deleted once in a while, making it difficult to check.
If you delete it (GC closed) and restart GC it is created fresh.
If you could upload a fresh log.txt after doing your steps including the errors, that could help to narrow it down.
Until you do not get pass the motor/encoder test, don’t bother with
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It should be at the bottom, but should only be changed if the other sources of the message are excluded!
@Commissionit I’m a bit confused as to where things stand looking at the first picture that shows position location updates, then a motor test of all motors failed but you also said:
Did the motors work during calibration but before completing calibration you stopped and did a motor test?
If you begin calibration and don’t complete it, you can expect some odd behaviour. Make sure to use the “How To: Get Calibrated” wiki page.
I would start over with calibration while using the wiki. Read the wiki step, then perform the action in GC. It helped me a lot.
This may be unrelated, but in another thread there was an issue with commands not being able to finish properly and hitting the stop button in GC a few times helped that.
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