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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Slave Axis problems.

« on: February 18, 2010, 09:23:52 PM »

ok, let me pop that sucker open and give it the once over...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Slave Axis problems.

« on: February 18, 2010, 07:20:56 PM »

My gecko does not have the option to move the drivers, they are static on a motherboard that attatches to the main board. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Slave Axis problems.

« on: February 18, 2010, 06:00:35 PM »

nothing is ever easy, is it?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Slave Axis problems.

« on: February 18, 2010, 05:55:11 PM »

There are no switches save the charge pump switch.  I have that off at the moment so the drive will come out of fault.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Slave Axis problems.

« on: February 18, 2010, 05:39:08 PM »

First of all I just wanted to say hello to everybody.  This is my 1st post on the forum and sadly it has to be a problem.

I have a gecko g540 running 4 stepper motors.  I need to slave the A stepper to the X stepper to drive the dual Rack and Pinion gears.  Here is what I have ch3eck3ed so foar.

1.  Downloaded the Gecko G540.xml from the geckodrive website.
2.  Checked to make sure that the motor was enabled in ports and pins. 
3.  Set the slave options under the config menu to slave a to X
4.  Unchecked the Rotational checkbox for A axis in general config.
5.  Tested the motors on X axis and they all test good.
6.  Checked the home slave checkbox.

I still can not get the A stepper to move.  If anyone would have any insight into my problem I would really appreciate it.  I am attaching my xml file for review.\\videos