tinyg problems

[Ronald DeSantis]

I recently purchased the tinyg and trying to set it up and get going with 60 40 cnc. I had chillipeppr going but could not make the machine run. I could jog at that time, but trying to get it running, I did something that Turned On red blinking light D9. It locked up the board. Looking for some advise . Help. Thanx Ron

[John Lauer]

That usually means just reset the board.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:47 AM Ronald DeSantis <desanti...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recently purchased the tinyg and trying to set it up and get going with 60 40 cnc. I had chillipeppr going but could not make the machine run. I could jog at that time, but trying to get it running, I did something that Turned On red blinking light D9. It locked up the board. Looking for some advise . Help. Thanx Ron

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[Carl McGrath]

D9 is the Mot1 'moving' LED. It sits on one of the two motor windings and statistically flashes when a job is running.

When a motor stops, holding position, LED might be on or off, random.

LED should go blank after $mt seconds (the motor timeout setting).

I agree with John, resetting the board should cause all motor leds to turn off, SpnDir to flash for maybe 5 secs, then off.

That is normal startup behavior.

The bootloader is looking for a potential code download while SpnDir is flashing

[Ronald DeSantis]

Thanx for your response, I did try to reset the board with the button on The board , but it keeps blinking . I ll try t unhook the motors and see if that does it

On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 7:47:52 AM UTC-5, Ronald DeSantis wrote:

[Carl McGrath]

Are you sure it is D9 blinking, or is it D6?

D9 should be a green LED (Mot1)

If in fact it is D6, [SpnDir] Red LED blinking and not resetting, then you likely dragged a binary file onto the Chilipeppr Gcode widget.

That unfortunately will likely overwrite all the tinyG firmware, including the bootloader, with binary stuff.

If that is the case, you will need to reflash the board, not the same as doing a FW code download.

Do you have an Atmel ICE (debug hardware) ?

If not, you can send the board back to Synthetos, go to https://www.synthetos.com/contact-us/ and describe your problem, they will provide mailing instructions.

[Ronald DeSantis]

I guess your help is best, I did read it wrong D6 is correct ! I will send info to tinyg support, Thanx Ron