Topic: Solidoodle 2 won't home y axis
I'm currently helping a coworker getting his solidoodle running. He purchased it new a while back but could not get it to connect to his computer and gave up. He gave it to me because I previously built a probotix/linuxcnc machine but i have no experience with solidoodle. His machine is a 6x6 solidoodle 2 with the Sanguinolou motherboard Rev 1.3A. I have configured the printer as specified in the various support articles (config screenshots attached for reference in case I messed something up).
I can get the print head to move in manual mode on all 3 axes. The x and z axes will home but the the y axis does not do anything when attempting to home. The y axis will just sit idle. After homing x and z, the manual controls do not work and the printer tries to crash the print head if any movement is attempted.
The solidoodle folks suggested a faulty y stop switch but I tested all the stop switches and all appear to be functioning similarly. The switches test good as normally closed and and open when active. The stop signal connection is 0v ref to ground and pulled up to 5v when the stop switch is activated for all three axes. When I manually move the carriage slowly to the stop, repetier displays "echo: endstop hit: y=#". I also used the M119 command and the printer echoed the correct high/low responses for each stop limit switch position.
When homing x and z, the axis location does not update from red text until the homing is done and displays x=159 and z=0 in black text. When homing y, the y axis location updates immediately to y=150 in black text
I then reloaded the Marlin firmware with the version located at the link below and the printer is still doing the same thing.
github.com/mlaws/solidoodle2-marlin
I would really appreciate any assistance to get this thing running. TIA!
