Going the way of the MKS v1.4 board led to an interesting situation. With the separate RAMPS 1.4 and Arduino, everything I downloaded for Marlin (the onboard monitor that runs the printer) was just setup for my printer. No muss, no fuss.
Once I stepped away from the safety rail I was both better and worse off. I started to have to evaluate some settings in the software, such as indicating that the end stops show up “inverted” from what the software expects. I had to change the the motherboard it was configured for (obviously).
After much careful step by step plugging in of drivers and wires and checking and adjusting, and a little debugging of the configuration settings everything but one worked.
The one thing that isn’t working is the X-axis stepper motor. I deduced this by trying to run the stepper on the Y-axis output and had the same vibration result (vibration versus movement).
I’ve asked the seller for a replacement motor and with them I went into rather more detail about reference voltages on the drivers and such. I’ll spare you.
I’m relieved to be close to back in business. The single board will get mounted in a printed box with a small fan to keep the drivers cool and the result should look very neat and put together.
Update 11:02 EST: I found my issue. The spare cables I bought reversed two conductors causing the problem. Runs like a top now. Some noise on the z axis but that’s more of a mechanical thing.
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