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Hi Rod. I read you lost your driver, well, I did the same thing. Now I am looking for some one to blame. Like you I can't leave well enough alone. Rebuilt my old controller and had every thing working great, but, I run it on only 12 volts and tried it with 24 volts. BIG cloud of smoke and the...

If the sketch compilied it not the problem. You have nothen to loose by turning the shield over and solder wires to the switch points and use real NO push buttons. Try one on the worst switch. Trouble shoot it by trying every thing you can think of. It is alwas something simple. You can...

Gordon, I am 67 years old and it took me about three days of playing with, reading, and watching vids to get over the hump. Then I was making my PCBs. The Library had SOOOOO many parts that it was the slow down. Once you get into it you can disable the Libraries you don't need. Every thing is...

I have two things to offer that might help. In ChuckF's I changed the debounce part of the code that solved that part of the problem for me. Go back to his Posts and you will find what I changed. Just comment out the old code and paste in what I posted. If it doesn't work just uncomment and cut...

Hi Gorgon. I'm also retired and would rather do it my self and don't care how long it takes. Sounds like you have every thing you need to route your own boards on your mill. If you wanted a small number of boards with everything done for you and looking good also you can alwas send in the gerber...

One thing that he didn't mention in preview window, That I found interesting is the colors of each pass of the bit when cutting. The colors are the same as the resistor color code. IE. The first pass is Brown, Second pass is RED, third pass is orange, forth is Yellow, ETC. FYI, Carl

I am also new to making PCBs and use Eagle. You will also need to get pcb gcode and install it with Eagle freeware. Go to youtube and do a serch for Eagle cam and PCB GCODE. It will do a great job and make all the gcode and drill gcode for you. And it's free. There is a little hill to clime when...

That change didn't work either. It made "Home" go wrong way. I started at 0 degs set divisions to 4. Turned to 90 degs and then tried to home and it turns to 180 degs. AS to the power feed, I think that would be a great idea. I was going to make something for my Mill to do just that. But as...

That didn't work. I am done and everything is working great so I will leave it alone. I just started using Eagle with pcb to gcode and my first lession is to make a board for the Rotary Table/Dividing head. Did get some of it done and it looks like it will work. Much more to add and cut a...

Rod, I have my controller all built using a perf board, bare bones with 1602 display and a button shield that I got from Your Duino. http://yourduino.com/sunshop2/index.php?l=product_detail&p=334 Every thing is working great but, I have one problem left. My "Up and Down" buttons are backwards...

I am also running 1.6.0 and the Adaboot, bootloader. I am very happy with running my set up on V5. Carl

Ok, here go's Rod...I compiled V9 and the report was. Binary sketich size 26576 bytes (of a 30720 byte maximum). Ran it defalt with Divisions set to 4 (90 degs) hit go button and stepper starts then stalls. Config/Set speed = 100%. Reduced that to 50%. Speed was fine BUT, it turned 140 degs...

Rod, I am trying V9 and have it MOSTLY working but I still have a problem with speed control. Some kind of bug? I have divisions set to 4 and watch turn table move 90 degs. No problem Always turns 90 degs. Ramp up is for the first 3 degs of turn and ramp down is the last 3 degs. No problem. But...

Ok Rod, I now have my RT working with the nema 17. At this time I am still using V5 and had to make some tweaks. How ever it is running very smooth. I am getting 9 degs per second and that is faster then ChuckF's sketch would run. I am running nema 17 70 oz. three to one reduction with timing...

Hay Rod. In V7, I also noticed the when using Jog the stepper would keep going for some time and then go slowly a few more motor turns after button release befor stoping. I would think that in Jog mode it should stop when you release the button like in V4 and V5. In Speed Set, the speed...