Yes and yes. In GC, actions, advanced, there is a “wipe eeprom”. After that shut down ground control and unplug the arduino, plug back in, open ground control.
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Thanks, the reset method does work, thanks but when I follow the same calibrate setup, after entering the distance between motors and top work area non of the motors . Can’t help thinking my maker made hardware is faulty? No one else seems to be having this issue.
Very frustrated…
Amin
are you using commas or decimal points when entering the distance?
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hi, thanks for the reply.
No not using any commas or decimal places, just whole numbers.
Think it must have something to do with the “sled is not keeping up warning.” as that’s when it stopped working.
Regards
Looks like I has sawdust in my power unit that was causing the issue. Thanks for the support.
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I’m so glad you found the cause! I had run out of ideas myself, and I hate to see a fellow Maslowian frustrated.
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All motors are failing on mine as well. Cut something fine a few days ago. Went out the the shop and clicked the home button, it homed fine. Then i went to run a program moments later it gave me the sled wont keep up message followed by the all motors failed in the test section.
Does ground control show you are connected to the arduino? Maybe the USB cable came loose, or your PC has selective suspend on USB ports?
Can you verify your 12v supply to the shield is OK? Maybe it was pulled out slightly.
I second this as the most likely cause. The left and right motors are on completely independent systems other than the power supply so to loose both is usually a power issue.
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I re-seated the 12v plug and the USB cable. Separated the shield from the Arduino and re-seated it. The issue has changed from all motors failing to just direction 2 of the left motor.
- Blue light is on, verified voltage with a meter.
- Green and amber lights on the shield and Arduino.
- Erased the EPROM on the Arduino, reset to defaults on GC.
- I did noticed when I wen t to re-calibrate the machine that the measured chain lengths were greatly different left to right. And any movement that involves the right/up or right down arrows causes the “sled cant keep up error”.
When I get home from work today i’ll swap the left-right motor cables and see if the problem follows the motor or the cables.
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Confirmed, intermittently malfunctioning servo motor.
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Good troubleshooting. Would be interesting to find out why (encoder or motor?).
The motor turns fine and sounds fine. It randomly fails in both directions. Sometimes you have to hit the test button three or four times before it errs. I’m gonna have to order another motor ill be happy to donate this one to science.
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Well, I have to give a shout out to MakerMadeCNC for replacing my XY motor. Easiest warranty replacement I have ever had to deal with in my life, and I didn’t even know there was a warranty. Great Job @MakerMadeCNC!!!
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I’m also having a similar is. the minute i go to firmware 1.26 even with ground control off. one of the motors just starts. when i open ground control. it stops for a second then starts again. its only one motor. when i do a check motors in ground control all of them fail
Who did you buy the kit from? It could be that you need different firmware.