Shapeoko Pro 4, used for over half a year now, bitsetter has always worked just fine. Used it several days ago with no issue. Today, I turned on the machine, readied my project, and went to zero the bit… Only to have it drive the bit down and stutter because the button wasn’t registering.
The red light won’t turn on when I depress the button manually. I’ve reset it several times. I’ve unplugged it from the motherboard and plugged it back in. I’ve looked inside to see if something is blocking the button. Nothing.
Weird thing is, ONE TIME while I was messing with the button and the plug, I got a consistent red light while pressing it down. I stopped messing with the wires and still got a consistent red light. I turned it off and on again to see if it would hold…and it didn’t. Back to being completely non-functional, and I haven’t been able to replicate it.
I was really counting on being able to use the bitsetter over the next week. Is there anything else I can try to potentially fix the problem?
Sounds like a wire issue. Very carefully check the wire from the BitSetter to the control board. Look for a spot where the wire was pinched or crushed at one time.
I’m looking hard and not seeing anything. Obviously, I can’t see the entire wire, since most of it is traveling through the enclosure, but the bits I can see aren’t kinked or bent in any way.
Thanks for your help, everyone! I foolishly didn’t realize that opening up the right front plate would show another connector, and it’s that which seems to have been going bad. I seem to have stabilized it with a splint and some tape, and support will be sending me some parts to hopefully fix it permanently.
take multimeter set to continuity or ohms, if all zeros thats the broken wire if not all zeros is a good wire. Repeat till found wire, solder, wreck electronics because bad at soldering and overheated something important, contact support.