Maybe a big oops

[gadman58]

Last night I was hooking up the motors on my new 4 axis board following instructions. But I apperently was having a issue with reading the paper.

I hooked up the X axis motor and thought it would be cool to see if it ran back and forth. I made sure that the other motors were disabled in Mach 3 and did a jog test the motor jogged then I tried the other way the motor turned the same way.

The short story is I had put the dir pin number for Y in the X axis dir.

My question is, is that enough to fry the Y axis drive because the Y motor is not hooked up yet. I don't have my Y wiring in place yet and I now that I can just move the X motor over to the Y axis drive and test, but it was late last night and I did not want to mess up twice in one night. I wont be able to get back to the machine till probably sunday.

Thanks
Glenn

[jalessi]

Glenn,

Most likely your board is fine, its the spike that kills them when you remove or connect a stepper under load that you need to worry about.

Jeff...

[gadman58]

Thank you

[jalessi]

Glenn,


Welcome to the Zone.

Jeff...