Burned driver box for Sherline?

[Telle]

Hello!

A couple of days ago my driver box for my Sherline (P/N 8760) stopped working as it should. When I turn the driver box on the red LED starts to blink instead of glowing with a red light.

I have noticed that it blinks when I have my Y-axis connected to the driver box. If I don't connect the Y-axis every other axis works fine but as soon as I connect the Y-axis it starts to blink and I can't run any axis.

Anyone with the same problem? Is my driver box "burned" or something?

[Greg Maxwell]

I had the red blinking light problem for sometime. My solution is, prior to turning on the controller, I get the software running (in my case Mach3) and initiate a axis movement (this somehow wakes up the controller ) and vola, I turn on the controller and no red light blinking. I didn't notice any one axis causing the problem.

[Telle]

Ok, thanks for the reply. I have now tried that but it didn't work... ... guess that the controller is broken, but my warrenty should cover that. I haven't done anything and suddenly the problem was there.

[Greg Maxwell]

Sorry to hear of that, I hope my blinking isn't a sign of things to come, but it's been doing it for years now.