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Re: Z-Axis not responding / moving - Help debugging
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2018, 02:41:45 PM »
I don't understand what you mean. Those pin combinations correspond to the step and direction pins of my breakout board. Motor 0 is the X axis, Motor 1 is the Z axis and Motor 2 is the Y axis. Granted the order is strange - XZY instead of XYZ but this definition has been working OK  for years

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Re: Z-Axis not responding / moving - Help debugging
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2018, 01:53:54 AM »
sorry that was unclear,

i meaned ro Tweakie's answer where he assumed Pin 4 and 8.
anything is possible, just try to do it.
if you find some mistakes, in my bad bavarian english,they are yours.

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Re: Z-Axis not responding / moving - Help debugging
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2018, 02:03:41 AM »
Sorry guys, my mistake - I was picking up the wrong .xml file at my end.

As John suspects, it could be bad pins on the parallel card or the BoB.

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Re: Z-Axis not responding / moving - Help debugging
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2018, 02:08:04 PM »
It turned out to be a bad ribbon cable that attached the port inside the computer to the BOB. Those PIC connections are hard to find. Thanks to Tweakie for support.

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Re: Z-Axis not responding / moving - Help debugging
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2018, 01:45:35 AM »
Excellent, I am pleased that you have found the problem.

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