Tandem Y Axis not working on 7i76E
- tommylight
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Does not matter at all, the motors are working so all is good.
Let me ask, is there a chance that I may have inadvertently miss-wired one of the two Y-Axis motors? I think that is what I am reading into
this mess.
The only thing you have missed/skipped is checking if the direction is correct on both Y.
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Someone should do a "initial tests after wiring and powering on and before trying to run the machine" ...
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If this is the case wouldn't it be much easier to swap one motor DIR+ and DIR- at the connection of the 7i76E ??The only thing you have missed/skipped is checking if the direction is correct on both Y.
I thought that's what we're doing here?Someone should do a "initial tests after wiring and powering on and before trying to run the machine"
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Probably, if you have them wired as differential, should work.If this is the case wouldn't it be much easier to swap one motor DIR+ and DIR- at the connection of the 7i76E ??
I find it much easier to change the scale in the ini file than to mess with wiring inside a very small box with lots of wires.
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I created a new profile and here's what happened. Both X and Z moved in the correct direction(s) as advertised above. No problem here.In the mean time, make another config, chose only stepgens, no switches, no homing, nothing but stepgens, select stepgen 2 AND stepgen 3 as Y axis, not tandem, save, start the config, use the keyboard to jog and check:
left arrow = X axis goes left
Right arrow = X axis goes right
Carefully bellow
up arrow = gantry moves away from you
down arrow = gantry moves towards you
Do both Y move in the same direction?
pageUp = z axis moves UP
pageDown = z axis moves down
When it came to the Y-Axis, only one side moved and it moved as expected in the + and - directions. So, we're moving in the right directions.
Interesting, when I swapped the stepgens in PNCCONF for the Y-Axis the issue followed. Only one side moved however it was the opposing side this time that moved.
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Please see above. Only one Y-Axis moves. The other one didn't move until I re-ran PNCCONF and swapped the two Y-Axis stepgens and thenI created a new profile and here's what happened. Both X and Z moved in the correct direction(s) as advertised above. No problem here.
When it came to the Y-Axis, only one side moved and it moved as expected in the + and - directions. So, we're moving in the right directions.
Interesting, when I swapped the stepgens in PNCCONF for the Y-Axis the issue followed. Only one side moved however it was the opposing side this time that moved.
the opposing Y-Axis ran but not the previous. So basically, only one Y-Axis would move.
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Let us have a look at hal and ini for this test setup...
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