worked fine on sunday, but not on tuesday?

[shorty2204]

I made 3 wooden puzzle pieces on Sunday and everything was great. My Millright CNC was working great and my electronics upgrade was working stupendously. I went back today to finish the other 2 i need but now it wont work.
I'm not sure what exactly to call the thing that's not happening maybe motor initialization but basically when i used to turn the power on you'd hear the motors "catch" or "engage" now there's nothing. no sound or anything except for the fan.

im not sure where to start to try and diagnose it. I have heard that if you move a motor quickly you can generate power and fry a board. When i turned my cnc off sunday i remember the router falling about an inch. Im not sure if that could fry something but i thought id mention it. 

Thanks in advance
Mike

[Derek the Admin]

Hey Mike,

Let's get ya going again.

When you attempt to open a connection to the board, does it indicate that a connection has been established or does it say something like "Grbl has not finished booting"?

If a connection opens and it allows you to talk to the controller and issue commands, have you looked to see if your power supply wires have maybe been pulled out of the connector?

Let us know please and we will go from there.

[aforww]

Also, since you're running my gear, is the fan kicking on?

[shorty2204]

Yes the Fan does turn on and the lights are on too. Derek im using easel so i dont have any of those messages but tomorrow ill try it again and ill try UGS.

[Derek the Admin]

Ok. I'll listen out for your post.

[aforww]

I'm gonna put my money on "you've been Easeled". That's my new phrase for folks Easel screws with lol. I wouldn't trust it to do anything other than generate Gcode. Seems like anyone without an X-carve runs into random issues when they use it to push code. Lol

[Hommer Woods]

My router drops about an inch when I shut down too. Hasn't done any damage so far. I use Easel but as aforww says only to generate gcode files not to feed to the machine. Worth a try to see if that cures the issue.

[aforww]

Yea problem with Easel is it has a habit of applying settings you don't want. I'd recommend a fresh reflash of the hex file with any changes (I know some values were off in an early version) that might be needed then run UGS.

[shorty2204]

ive only used Easel about 10 times but its been great until this. i wonder if its a windows update or something. in device manager it just said serial com port. i reloaded arduino and now it says arduino uno so i think thats a step in the right direction. now it just makes this sound. youtu.be/XitOPUX1hTQ

[shorty2204]

here's a question for you all. at what point does your cnc stop being moveable by hand?

[aforww]

Aug 24, 2017 1:19:21 GMT shorty2204 said:

here's a question for you all. at what point does your cnc stop being moveable by hand?

What do you mean shorty?

[Derek the Admin]

I think I get what you're saying. You're asking about when the motors should lock, right?

They should be locked when you boot grbl. I also suspect you've been "Easeled" to bother Aforww's term.

If you could please give us a screen shot of your settings I'll be able to tell if your settings have been overwritten. Can you open Universal G Code Sender, connect to the machine, and issue the command $$ in the command line. Please copy and paste the settings here, or give us a screen shot.

Was it trying to run a program in that video?

[shorty2204]

So i went out to get this info for you and i thought id try it again. and it worked. one thing i did change is i ran the usb cable around the front of the laptop instead of behind it so i'm thinking that the usb ports on my old laptop are worn maybe and it didn't have a good enough connection but enough to see the board maybe. Either way i don't get it and hopefully it doesn't happen again.

ok
$132=100.000 (z max travel, mm)
$131=290.000 (y max travel, mm)
$130=290.000 (x max travel, mm)
$122=50.000 (z accel, mm/sec^2)
$121=500.000 (y accel, mm/sec^2)
$120=500.000 (x accel, mm/sec^2)
$112=500.000 (z max rate, mm/min)
$111=8000.000 (y max rate, mm/min)
$110=8000.000 (x max rate, mm/min)
$102=80.000 (z, step/mm)
$101=40.000 (y, step/mm)
$100=40.000 (x, step/mm)
$31=0. (rpm min)
$30=1. (rpm max)
$27=1.000 (homing pull-off, mm)
$26=250 (homing debounce, msec)
$25=750.000 (homing seek, mm/min)
$24=25.000 (homing feed, mm/min)
$23=3 (homing dir invert mask:00000011)
$22=0 (homing cycle, bool)
$21=0 (hard limits, bool)
$20=0 (soft limits, bool)
$13=0 (report inches, bool)
$12=0.002 (arc tolerance, mm)
$11=0.020 (junction deviation, mm)
$10=115 (status report mask:01110011)
$6=0 (probe pin invert, bool)
$5=0 (limit pins invert, bool)
$4=0 (step enable invert, bool)
$3=0 (dir port invert mask:00000000)
$2=0 (step port invert mask:00000000)
$1=255 (step idle delay, msec)
$0=10 (step pulse, usec)

[aforww]

Glad you got it worked out. I would encourage you to move to UGS though. If nothing else, UGS gives you much more control over your machine. Especially in newer versions with feed override, probing, etc.

[Derek the Admin]

$0=10 (step pulse, usec)
$1=255 (step idle delay, msec)
$2=0 (step port invert mask:00000000)
$3=0 (dir port invert mask:00000000)
$4=0 (step enable invert, bool)
$5=0 (limit pins invert, bool)
$6=0 (probe pin invert, bool)
$10=3 (status report mask:00000011)
$11=0.010 (junction deviation, mm)
$12=0.002 (arc tolerance, mm)
$13=0 (report inches, bool)
$20=0 (soft limits, bool)
$21=0 (hard limits, bool)
$22=0 (homing cycle, bool) SETTING 22 SHOULD = 1 IF YOU HAVE HOMING SWITCHES, = 0 IF NOT
$23=0 (homing dir invert mask:00000000)
$24=25.000 (homing feed, mm/min)
$25=600.000 (homing seek, mm/min)
$26=244 (homing debounce, msec)
$27=4.000 (homing pull-off, mm)
$100=40.000 (x, step/mm)
$101=40.000 (y, step/mm)
$102=80.000 (z, step/mm)
$110=8000.000 (x max rate, mm/min)
$111=8000.000 (y max rate, mm/min)
$112=3000.000 (z max rate, mm/min)
$120=250.000 (x accel, mm/sec^2)
$121=250.000 (y accel, mm/sec^2)
$122=250.000 (z accel, mm/sec^2)
$130=264.000 (x max travel, mm)
$131=264.000 (y max travel, mm)
$132=69.000 (z max travel, mm)

Gotcha. Glad you're okay. For what it's worth, Easel did work your settings over a little. You might want to compare the list you provided to the list I am posting below of our default settings for the M3. I recommend changing anything that's different in your setting back to what we have.
For instance, you would change setting 120 to 250 by typing $120=250 into the command line and pressing enter.