1) Did you buy everything from here?
Yes, I purchased everything from you.
b)What board do you have?
Rambo
c)What firmware is on it or which did you buy it with?
It is as shipped from you. Dual Firmware and wiring kit was the one I selected.
2) Are you using end stops?
Yep, kinda the point
a)If so how are they wired, NC or NO.
NC, at first I didnāt notice the X1 Y1 and X2 Y2 were offset (top row of endstop pins use 2 and 3 in the connector, bottom row use 1 and 2) this was corrected and still no change in operation.
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Mac or PC (windows xp, 7, 8, 10?), linux?
PC - Windows 10 - repetier host -
Include a picture so obvious errors might be spotted.
Here you see I have the correct wiring for the end stop switch.
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Overall view of the Machine.
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Ok, So iām fairly decent with troubleshooting and searching, and I probably already have my answer but I want someone smarter than me to give me a sanity check. I assembled everything over this weekend, I was able to move all the axis (x, y, z) but only the Z would go both directions. I attributed this to the fact that I could not set āZeroā on X and Y from the LCD. I got a little ahead of myself and loaded ryans test crown - 12mm/s file onto a SD card and attempted to āAir cutā (all axis were in approximate middle of their total travels so I didnāt need to worry about crashing anything. Well, I could tell that any X+ and Y+ worked, but as you can imagine, it just kind of traveled on until I stopped the machine because it would have crashed. It never performed any X- or Y- movements.
Onto testing.
So I connected with repetier host and moved the machine to a safe spot manually (disabled power to steppers, moved machine back to mid table)
I did 10+ X. Moved 10mm.
I did 10- X. Nothing.
Same with the Y axis.
Z axis functions normally (Inverted for my preferences in repetier hostā¦ Up in repetier host moves the Z down and Down in RH moves Z up lol) as far as I can tell anyway.
Things I have done:
Checked M119
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Ok, Triggered. This tells me open circuit because if I followed the directions it should be closed (Wire the switches in NC). Ran it again with x1 endstop depressed. No change. Checked each switch in this fashion. No change on the 30 bazillion (felt like) times I held a switch and issued M119.
I have verified each Endstop switch with a multimeter on the continuity setting (the one that beeps when you touch probes together)
Each switch beeps when the common terminal and NC are touched. Each switch also ceases beeping when I depress the lever. I believe this means the switches themselves are working as intended.
Next up, I checked each Stepper extension cable (The 5 white cables that came with my kit) Each side of the 2-pin part of the harness has continuity (unplugged from what iām guessing is Ultimakerās end stop switch harness kit?)
Now, onto this pesky Endstop wiring kitā¦ NONE of the cables tested good. It looks like there is bad crimps but I donāt want to cut them to find out which crimp is bad. (Dupont or spade terminal)
After typing this post (long) outā¦ I feel like I need to make new extension harnesses to replace the ones with bad crimps, and that would get me up and going, but the whole point of buying a kit was to be mostly plug and play, off and running without having to do a ton of custom wiring.
Ryan, Would it be in the realm of possibilities to get a new āultiā endstop kit? (One that youāve verified has good crimps?) Iād gladly send you the faulty ones back (I donāt know if you can get a vendor credit due to faulty crimpsā¦ but eh, worth a shot right?)
Was hoping to draw in the air tonight, and my DW660 gets here next week.
Charles
TLDR: Bad crimps, verified with multimeter, will āTriggeredā end stops prevent negative x and y axis movement?
Edit: Marked solved because replacing the spade connectors worked, I can now automagically home my machine.
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