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inte...@gmail.com

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Jul 27, 2026, 1:58:37 AM (11 days ago) Jul 27
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I’m running into a strange issue with a stepper motor on an Smoothie/MicroSMT board running OpenPnP 2.4.

On power-up, the stepper holds torque properly. However, as soon as I issue any jog command or G-code, the motor disengages and spins freely. If I follow up with an M112 (Emergency Stop), it immediately re-engages and holds torque again. Essentially, any motion or control command causes the motor to drop hold current.

For context, I have servos running on two other channels on the same board and they work fine. Is there a specific Smoothie or OpenPnP configuration setting I might be missing for steppers? Has anyone seen this issue?

I connected a 42 57 manual stepper driver to check motor and  wiring and it worked fine.  

Config file attached.

Thanks in advance
config.txt

bert shivaan

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Jul 27, 2026, 6:00:20 AM (11 days ago) Jul 27
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It sounds like you have enable logic that is inverted? So when the stepper should be disabled it is enabled, and when it should be enabled it is disabled?

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inte...@gmail.com

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Jul 27, 2026, 6:06:11 PM (10 days ago) Jul 27
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Yes you are right, working now.  We tried it before but it may have not been saved but on trying again it worked. Appreciate it.
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