Got my machine put together last night (the build quality and Winston’s instructions are fantastic), initialized it and the y-axis makes a pretty remarkable amount of noise.
The pulleys seem to be good and tight. The belts are equally tensioned according to the instructions. When I jog along the y axis it does seem to want to twist slightly like both motors aren’t engaging. I’m about to go mess with it and check continuity on everything but if anybody has any ideas I’m absolutely open to them.
Well I figured it out - it’s a bad motor. I took both belts off and ran an initialize on it. The right motor spun as it’s supposed to but the left motor did this:
While you wait for a response from support, I suggest you try and inspect the wires themselves, all along their length, looking for any damage/pinching. The other thing could be a miswired motor.
It seems like it’s an extremely rare event (as perceived from this forum at least) when it’s the stepper motor itself that is faulty.
Because I’m a terribly impatient person I toned out the wires on the extension cable and they were fine. I took apart the plugs to ensure everything was terminated adequately, everything looked good and now for some reason it works!! I guess it is a poorly terminated connector so I’m going to spend some quality time tonight tightening those up.
