Re: One direction Gecko????

Joe,

Short the direction line to your PC ground while the motor is
turning. Do this by disconnecting the direction line from your port
and touch it to your port ground line. If the drive is good, the
direction must change then.

If it doesn't, give me a call at 1-714-771-1662 Monday and I will
either repair or replace the drive for free. I don't want anyone to
be dissatisfied with our stuff.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "qwerty12345612" <qwerty12345612@y...>
wrote:

> I bought a Gecko driver off of LloydLeung in this group and it only
> turns the stepper one direction. Strange huh??
> Ive tried hooking it up in place of the other 2 geckos that I have,
> connecting it to different motors, but I still cant get it to turn
> any of them more than one direction, CCW.
> I initially thought it was the motor, but It wasnt.
> I then thought it might be the parallel port pinout from my

breakout

> board,after switching all of the pins around to other drivers(both
> hardware wise and software) I discovered that it wasnt.
> Then I thought, well maybe I had wired it up wrong some how, so I
> took apart and reassembled everything about 10 times and still got
> the same results no matter what pin the step/dir' were running off
> of.
> I now am pretty sure it is defective. And when I asked Lloyd for
> help figuring this thing out, all he could say was either it should
> work or it doesnt.And I should ask someone else for troubleshooting.
>
> He then suggested me to query the list and see what I can come up
> with. Or contact Mariss and ask him.
>
> Anybody ever hear of this happening with a Gecko G201?
>
> It would be great if someone could maybe suggest something for me

to

> check, and possibly make this thing work the way it was designed to.
> If not, then I guess I got the old Ebay screw job, and am stuck

with

> a driver that only goes one way, because Lloyd has no intention of
> replacing it or the money I paid for it.
>
> Anybody ever hear of this happening with a Gecko G201?
> Any ideas??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Joe