Ramps Testcode works, CW does not, what to do?
Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 8:52 am
Hi,
I connected two stepper motors to an Arduino Mega 2560 with a Ramps 1.4 shield. (one for Z, one for X)
After uploading the Ramps Testcode as it can be found here http://reprap.org/wiki/File:RAMPSTestCode.pde
the steppers work fine, they are turning nicely in both directions, also the optical endstops do seem to work.
However once I put either Marlin or Sprinter as a firmware on the arduino, just nothing happens with Creation Workshop.
This is what I tried/did already:
- Define in Marlin/Sprinter And CW the baudrate to be 115200,
- correctly define the Com Port to COM3
- pressed the "connect" icon which to the right of the floppy disk icon
- I switched the "Motors" switch to the ON position
- I tried to send Gcode manually (G0 X12) or (G1 X12) - code is confirmed because it moves to the "sent" area, but no response and nothing moves
- I tried to press the XYZ direction buttons - nothing moves
It can't be the hardware, since the Ramps Testcode makes everything move - I must be doing something terribly wrong, but what?
can anyone help ?
I connected two stepper motors to an Arduino Mega 2560 with a Ramps 1.4 shield. (one for Z, one for X)
After uploading the Ramps Testcode as it can be found here http://reprap.org/wiki/File:RAMPSTestCode.pde
the steppers work fine, they are turning nicely in both directions, also the optical endstops do seem to work.
However once I put either Marlin or Sprinter as a firmware on the arduino, just nothing happens with Creation Workshop.
This is what I tried/did already:
- Define in Marlin/Sprinter And CW the baudrate to be 115200,
- correctly define the Com Port to COM3
- pressed the "connect" icon which to the right of the floppy disk icon
- I switched the "Motors" switch to the ON position
- I tried to send Gcode manually (G0 X12) or (G1 X12) - code is confirmed because it moves to the "sent" area, but no response and nothing moves
- I tried to press the XYZ direction buttons - nothing moves
It can't be the hardware, since the Ramps Testcode makes everything move - I must be doing something terribly wrong, but what?
can anyone help ?