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Blown Gecko 340

Posted by andyolney
on 2003-06-15 21:16:06 UTC
I have damaged one of my G340( terminals 2-3 show 1 ohm resistance)
and I don't know why. This is the 2nd one and after Mariss was kind
enough to repair the first, I redid the wiring completely per the
schematic Tim Goldstein posted.

What is puzzling me is the fact that I had 2 G340s working fine, was
jogging fine, set the speed and acceleration using Mach2, ran some
test gcode rectangles, and had a couple of hours of run time. Yea!

Yesterday went to make a first part, ran the program, moves fine,
wrong zero, stop, try to jog to part zero and the g340 won't come out
of reset. Check resistance of mosfets and trm 2-3 is 1 ohm.

I am looking for reasons for the failure. So far:

Wiring error?
Wiring is the same as the working axis and I did not touch alter it
to my knowlege.

Bad Motor?
I have seen a discussion of bad/shorted windings on steppers causing
damage, could this apply?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

Andy

Discussion Thread

andyolney 2003-06-15 21:16:06 UTC Blown Gecko 340 JanRwl@A... 2003-06-15 22:19:08 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Blown Gecko 340 Jon Elson 2003-06-15 22:28:23 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Blown Gecko 340 andyolney 2003-06-16 09:10:18 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 Jon Elson 2003-06-16 10:34:52 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Blown Gecko 340 andyolney 2003-06-16 21:19:55 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 andyolney 2003-06-17 22:53:03 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 Lee Studley 2003-06-18 10:17:32 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 Jon Elson 2003-06-18 10:50:50 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Blown Gecko 340 andyolney 2003-06-22 15:34:39 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 Update Jon Elson 2003-06-27 20:26:02 UTC Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Blown Gecko 340 Update andyolney 2003-06-27 22:04:43 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 Update Lee Studley 2003-06-27 23:35:05 UTC Re: Blown Gecko 340 Update Dan Mauch 2003-07-14 10:51:50 UTC Interesting problem Fred Smith 2003-07-14 15:18:27 UTC Re: Interesting problem stevenson_engineers 2003-07-14 17:31:43 UTC Re: Interesting problem