M2 - Nothing Happens!

[DB_Daddy-O]

Got it together plugged it in and nothing happened!  no fans, no heat, no bells, no lights nothing!  The power supply voltages checked out - any suggestions on trouble shooting this?

[Joshua Wills]

Do you have the USB cable plugged in?  RAMBo ships configured for USB power chosen for logic.

[DB_Daddy-O]

With USB plugged-in PC slows down, and still nothing, my laptop just locks up!

[Joshua Wills]

Are any of your endstops pressed, and more importantly, plugged in backwards?

[screamcheese]

I'm assuming that you're using Windows - did you check System Manager
for a port assignment?

If the controller board isn't getting a virtual COM port assigned,
nothing is going to happen. Did you get that far?

On Sep 5, 11:33 am, DB_Daddy-O <dennis.b.mil...@zoominternet.net>
wrote:

[DB_Daddy-O]

tryied two PCs both almost stopped working running! when USB was plugged in!

On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 9:06:50 AM UTC-4, Joshua wrote:

[Joshua Wills]

Unplug your endstops and try again.

[screamcheese]

Why would this slow down his computer?

I'm guessing that he doesn't have the drivers installed - each time he
plugs in the USB cable, his computer probably starts grinding away,
trying to find a driver and not finding one. But that's a guess,
really.

SC

[screamcheese]

Just to be more explicit, did you do the following steps?

1. Install the Arduino IDE (and set the board type to Arduino 2560 -
can't remember the exact board name - it's the only one with 2560) -
not sure that you really have to do this, but it can't hurt for
later...
2. Connect printer and computer via USB,
3. Look for a new device in System Manager (assuming Windows here),
4. Install driver (find the right driver in the drivers subdirectory
of wherever you installed the Arduino IDE - I'm pretty sure that I had
Windows find the right one, but "Arduino MEGA 2560.inf" should work, I
believe),
5. Go back to System Manager and see if there's a new COM port - if
not, the driver didn't install, go back, correct. If so, note the COM
port #,
6. Install Pronterface/Slic3r,
7. Set the COM port in Pronterface to the one that you found
8. Try one of the jog dials to see if you can control the printer (use
a 1mm dial at first, in case something's funky)

It'd be helpful to know how far you got in the above list. I hope that
it's accurate, going off memory here.

SC

[DB_Daddy-O]

Your correct I guess I installed the one software but drivers

[Jonathan Hirschman]

I had the same thing happen, and I nearly had a kitten. Change the
jumper and it'll all be good.

[screamcheese]

So is everyting talking to each other?

On Sep 5, 3:41 pm, DB_Daddy-O <dennis.b.mil...@zoominternet.net>
wrote:

[DB_Daddy-O]

Had someone elese look too!  found out the y Limit switch was an issue (Hunt unplug limit switches to see if board lights up), we also switched the jumper to power off the powersupply (just to check if I was having USB issues, switch it back afterwards).  Got every thing talking now thanks a lot!!!

 

Got it leveled too

 

 real close to first print!

 

Thanks Every One!!!