This morning everything was working fine. I got today's Controller upgrade push. I did the upgrade. Now, none of the 4 motors work, not a sound, nothing. The Controller software appears to be talking to the Black Box because it will do a connect. If I jog X, Y or Z the values on the screen change, but the motors don't move. I have done the following: 1. Shutdown and restarted my computer, no change. 2. Shutdown and restarted my Power supply and Black Box, no change. 3. Reset my Black Box, no change. 4. If I unplug the comm cable between the computer and the Black Box, the software does a disconnect. Once I do a connect successfully, no change. Any ideas? John
You can try installing a previous version here: OpenBuilds/OpenBuilds-CONTROL I have a feeling that the two aren't related, but its a place to start. The brains (usb side) and the muscle (24v side) are separate in the sense that you can have your power supply off and still "jog" using OB Control and have the DRO values change. In other words, Control has no idea of your motors have power or not. So, because of that, there are LED power indicators on the 24V side of things. Does your BlackBox logo light up still? Have you checked your fuse on the BB? Are any of the leds on the motors axis red?
Sharmstr No motor red lights. Fuse is OK There is a green small light below the logo on the top that is working, but the white square that I believe is the logo light is not working. Just noticed that the fan is not working! John
Most likely irrelevant to the update Check that $4=1 (Enabled) in Grbl Settings (might have had it set wrong at some point, without noticing. A restart of Grbl makes it take effect)
As Peter said, verify that $4=1. With that said, the fan is connected to the 24V side and should spin even if you dont have your computer plugged in. So again, has nothing to do with the upgrade/software side of things. When you tun on the power (using the power switch, again, not usb), 3 things should happen. The middle of the BlackBox logo should light up, the fan should turn on and the stepper motor icon should turn green. See image If this doesnt happen, with a multimeter, double check that you're getting 24v at the screw terminals on the 24v input on the blackbox.
Definately sounds like no power, sorry good catch @sharmstr! If its a meanwell PSU, check the 110v/220v slider on the side
Though the 110v/220v slider was on 110v, I went ahead and flipped it back and forth and voila, eveyrthing is happy. Go figure? However, the fan on the PSU did not turn on. Does it have a thermal switch that only turns on once a certain temperature is achieved? Thanks for the help. John
Page 2 of the datasheet: https://www.meanwell.com/Upload/PDF/LRS-350/LRS-350-SPEC.PDF says: (IE fan comes on when PSU internals get to 50degC, and turns off again when it drops below 40deg)