I am in Southern California (Riverside County) and I am looking for help with getting my CNC working. The servers don’t work. I bought a BlackFoot kit form https://www.buildyourcnc.com/ and I keep getting to discouraged to work on it. I use a Linux system.
https://www.buildyourcnc.com
You do not give anyone much to go on in order to help you out. Have you bench run your motors yet? Bench running your motors means running them off the machine. Because on your machine there may be other things going on that can make motors fail to run.
Your goal should be to try to reduce the number of variables in order to single out the trouble.
At one point the motors would buzz and one of them got really hot. I got new wiring specs and rewire them. I have not bench tested that would be a good idea if you could share that would be great. I have not put limit switches on the machine, that would not prevent it from working would it?
Don’t those guys over at http://buildyourcnc.com offer a free forum section for these kind of issues? They would probably be more suited to help with the situation. I also was under the impression they run Mach 3 on Windows.
I bought their pre-setup computer and per my mistake, I chose ubuntu operating system. I was hoping that I could meet some local dyi cnc’ers that had more confidence and experience than me to… “hold my hand” if you will. I do not know how active the companies forums are and if they have a big social base.
@Lucky_Watts
Did you connect, or disconnect a motor wire while you had power on? If yes then you likely burnt out whatever drive you did that on. Stepper motors, and drives are not like regular motors in that regard. Never ever connect, or disconnect a motor wire while power is applied to the drive. It is very bad ju-ju if you do.
I never mess with wires when the power is on. 