Hello,
I build up my first 3D printer, it is a Reprap Prusa i3, with the Sainsmart Electronics kit (Ramps 1.4. etc.), which I bought at amazon It is this kit
I configurated Marlin (V1 from Erik Zalm) to my settings and used Mac Pronterface (Printrun Version 2014 3.10) to control the printer.
Now my Problem:
My X axis is just moving in one direction. That means:
If I press „+X“ within Pronterface, it moves to the right (in all stepping modes – 0.1, 1, 10mm etc).
Right direction is the opposite direction of where I mechanicaly located the X-endstop.
If I press „-X“ within Pronterface nothing happend – either I’m selecting 0.1, 1 or 10mm steps.
If I home the x-axis the following happend:
Several seconds nothing is happening. Then, out of the blue, the x-carriage is moving several mm to the right and stops. After another several seconds, the same hapend again...
All my other axis (Y, Z, E) are working correct and the endstops on these axis (Y, Z) are also working fine.
I have the endstops wired and connected to the right pins (X, Y,Z min) on the Ramps board.
(Like on the wiring example you can see on the reprap wiki for ramps 1.4)
To find the problem, I checked the status of the endstops with M119 – all are indicated in „open“ status within pronterface. I checked every endstop manually if there is a triggered signal – all endstops are showing this change if I push to them by hand.
After If done that, I checked the X-stepper motor by connecting it to the y-axis pins on ramps. Result is, that the stepper motor is ok, it can be moved left and right when I control it via pronterfaces y-axis control panel.
Then I changed the x-stepper driver to be sure, that there is everything fine. Even with the new stepper driver X-axis is moving only in one direction...
What I’m doing wrong?
It would be great to get help from you guys.
Thanks in advance...
Alexander
I build up my first 3D printer, it is a Reprap Prusa i3, with the Sainsmart Electronics kit (Ramps 1.4. etc.), which I bought at amazon It is this kit
I configurated Marlin (V1 from Erik Zalm) to my settings and used Mac Pronterface (Printrun Version 2014 3.10) to control the printer.
Now my Problem:
My X axis is just moving in one direction. That means:
If I press „+X“ within Pronterface, it moves to the right (in all stepping modes – 0.1, 1, 10mm etc).
Right direction is the opposite direction of where I mechanicaly located the X-endstop.
If I press „-X“ within Pronterface nothing happend – either I’m selecting 0.1, 1 or 10mm steps.
If I home the x-axis the following happend:
Several seconds nothing is happening. Then, out of the blue, the x-carriage is moving several mm to the right and stops. After another several seconds, the same hapend again...
All my other axis (Y, Z, E) are working correct and the endstops on these axis (Y, Z) are also working fine.
I have the endstops wired and connected to the right pins (X, Y,Z min) on the Ramps board.
(Like on the wiring example you can see on the reprap wiki for ramps 1.4)
To find the problem, I checked the status of the endstops with M119 – all are indicated in „open“ status within pronterface. I checked every endstop manually if there is a triggered signal – all endstops are showing this change if I push to them by hand.
After If done that, I checked the X-stepper motor by connecting it to the y-axis pins on ramps. Result is, that the stepper motor is ok, it can be moved left and right when I control it via pronterfaces y-axis control panel.
Then I changed the x-stepper driver to be sure, that there is everything fine. Even with the new stepper driver X-axis is moving only in one direction...
What I’m doing wrong?
It would be great to get help from you guys.
Thanks in advance...
Alexander