Keith Clark wrote: >I have been using Mach2 successfully with my bridgeport Boss 6 CNC >retrofit until this morning when the y axis Gecko burned up. The >machine had been off overnight and when I booted up and tried to >move the axes off of home the drive immediately failed. It could be >a loose wire that shorted, but I am concerned about just hooking up >a new Gecko and having the same thing happen. This first move was a >coordinated move of both x and y axis. There are no burned fuses >that I can find and everything else seems to be functioning. > > Well, you should check your motors for shorts to ground. Probably you should also check each winding for resistance, and compare to the X motor. This still doesn't guarantee the motor is good, but it reduces the probability that it is bad.
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