Da Vinci 1.0 Azteeg x5 WiFi Build (Page 5 of 13)

I was looking back at your post and specifically at this image.

Unless you have changed something since this was posted your wires are not correct. This is based on the image I got from that Frankenvinci site.

If you extend this spreadsheet out to include the Azteeg connections using the Axis name as the pin one indicator you get the following..

Actually I was just thinking about the wiring and I remember now.. I could not find a diagram of the actually stepper motor pin out. Say you had no harness at all and the motors were all you had to reference from. Making your own harness’s from scratch. How would I know why male pin does what or what male pin goes to what wit no reference. I’m sorry if that doesn’t make sense, I’m not the greatest at trying to put together questions in good contex sometimes.

Actually now that I think of it, when I wired the motors I remember I would use a DMM, on ohms, would touch two terminals until I have a resistant reading instead of o.l or open. Which then told me that those two pins were on the same side. I’m almost positive the wiring is correct, the picture you mentioned a few posts ago that I took the wire colors may be not right as I didn’t keep them in the same color scheme as the diagram you posted. But I will go over it again and double check each motors wiring. What is the best way to wire these up correctly using a DMM

Here’s my issue. I’m not using the factory supplied Da Vinci wires from the original machine. So for that being said the harnesses are differnt colors, I know I could pretend they are the colors in the diagram displayed above and reference off of it but before I do hat I need to know the answer to this question.. the motors have 6 pins. You only use 4 of those pins, off the supplied snippets you gave me above they don’t reference the pins on the motors themselves because they are just passed off of a stock 4 wire non touched plug. I might not have my 4 wires in the correct place is my issue.

***Update****
X,Y,and Z axis colors and plugs were OEM order! 2 center pins and 2 outter pins correct?? Only harness that was wrong colors was the extruder harness. As long as out of the 6 pins we are only using the 2 center ones and the two outter ones I now have it wired correctly. I flipped the switch with all of the axis at there home positions and the motors are instantly making noise.. not sure what the noise is from. It’s like there idling at a really low RPM type of noise but I’m not sure. As soon as I command a axis to move all of the motors instantly stop making noise but nothing moves.. also this noise doesn’t cause the motor to move in one or the other direction but it causes it to “lock” in its position that it is in.

Please explain what you mean by swapping the wires in phase.

Ok and like I said they are all making noise when I turn the printer on.. where do I adjust the voltage to 1.0

they were already at 1.0 should I try above that

What I would do is just work on getting one axis to run as expected. Once you get one running you can repeat for the others. It took me weeks to get my Delta running. The issue is you have to have motor direction, motor phase, homing direction, endstop polarity, endstop homing direction, motor current, all set correctly to get it to move.

I found it was best once I confirmed the endstops showed as active when closed I moved the axis to the middle of the machine. It is supposed to auto home at power. So if you move it to the middle then you should get some movement. If not a setting or something else is wrong or it thinks it is at one of it's hard or soft limits.

Copy and post your endstop module and stepper module from the config as it is now so I can compare it versus the videos.

There is one thing I notice and correct me if I am wrong but we are looking at movement from the back of the machine, not the front. If that is the case then all your movement is wrong. You pushed the move right arrow so if we are looking from the back of the machine it should move left. All your movement and settings are and should be based on the fact you are looking at the front of the machine.

I added to my reply. In the video it appears that we are looking at the back of the machine. if that is the case then when you press right it should move left. if you press forward it should move back. All your movement and settings are supposed be based on you looking at the front of the machine. Homing looks correct but manual movement looks wrong. There is a setting in Repetier to invert the X and Y so see if that works.

I installed Repetier Host and connected my CT'c to see how the software behaves. So here is the deal. If the machine Homes in the correct direction and stops when it hits the endstop then that axis should be good. Now in Repetier under printer settings there is a tab called printer. In that tab at the very bottom there are check boxes to invert the movement of the X Y and Z axis during manual moves. I found on my machine both the X and Y had to be inverted to get manual moves to move in the correct direction..

For the Z access the proper setting based on g-code movement is always in reference to head movement, not bed movement. So on a machine that has a fixed height head and a moving bed, when you press up the bed should move down because the machine is actually interpreting the head moving up. When you press down the bed should move up.

Now this is proper, but some people set it up for their own convenience so that up means the bed moves up and down means the bed moves down. To them the Z axis is the bed and not the toolhead as it should be.

I got Y homing correctly now and motor direction in the right dirtection everything is perfect now! all i had to do was add a ! to the direction line got the y axis. Max for Y axis is set to 396, Homes to 0 in right rear corner!

My next question for you is how does the board learn or know where the print bed is located.. as in like the outter dimensions of the bed itself. Do we manually have to move the axis's to the corners of the bed to set min print and max print locations? If that makes sense..

Ok so max would be the dimensions of the print bed. But what about min of the print bed.
Also I have a question for you. How am I going to set bed height to the correct print thickness height.

You’ll have to send some pictures of your new setup once you get it running