Help with Lichuan drives
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05 Apr 2026 09:09 #345194
by Drustar
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Hello forum,
I have 6 x 1KW Lichuan LC20 drives and have been trying to get them to work with Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and LinuxCNC for about 9 months. I realised I don't have the technical knowhow to make this work. Using this forum, youtube and Grok, I was able to get close, getting the Raspberry Pi to work as a master and I even got all 6 drives to work as slaves, but trying to get them in to OP mode proved impossible. On one occasion, when I unplugged 5 of the 6 drives, I managed to get it to go into OP mode but have not been able to replicate it since. And I have never been able to understand how to get them to turn using LinuxCNC, that baffles me a bit so I have never actually seen the motors work ever.
I am open to buying hardware that kinda works out of the box but I have no idea what that is.
Can anybody on this forum work with me over time to help me to get these things to work with LinuxCNC, or even Mach??? I can't return them, and after spending $2K on them, I can't afford to buy something a little more 'out of the box'.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew.
I have 6 x 1KW Lichuan LC20 drives and have been trying to get them to work with Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and LinuxCNC for about 9 months. I realised I don't have the technical knowhow to make this work. Using this forum, youtube and Grok, I was able to get close, getting the Raspberry Pi to work as a master and I even got all 6 drives to work as slaves, but trying to get them in to OP mode proved impossible. On one occasion, when I unplugged 5 of the 6 drives, I managed to get it to go into OP mode but have not been able to replicate it since. And I have never been able to understand how to get them to turn using LinuxCNC, that baffles me a bit so I have never actually seen the motors work ever.
I am open to buying hardware that kinda works out of the box but I have no idea what that is.
Can anybody on this forum work with me over time to help me to get these things to work with LinuxCNC, or even Mach??? I can't return them, and after spending $2K on them, I can't afford to buy something a little more 'out of the box'.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew.
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