John, On 2020-04-05 21:24, John Dammeyer wrote:
Anyone ever run into this sort of thing with a G213V driver? http://www.autoartisans.com/mill/G213V-Failure.jpg
This is typical for poor connection in environment with mechanical vibrations as in CNC. Gecko driver itself has nothing to do with it I believe. In my hardware support years I checked female parts of pins to make sure they are narrower than the male part thickness every time there were "power related issues".
You can use a scribe or a larger needle to push halfs of female section towards the center. In some cases I pressed that part out of the plastic first then used pliers to squeeze the metal part then pushed it back into plastic part of connector.
Power connectors for hard drives and floppy drives needed that treatment in old PCs using much less current than your CNC motor. Same in power supplies on mainframe systems.
Without seeing that kind of connector from close it's hard to say if this is doable or needed in your case. The burned out connector needs to be replaced first and male part needs cleaning. In some cases you need to re-solder it because it gets lose during overheating.
You can try to use different kind of connectors with screws to tighten the connection. That depends on space between the pins on Gecko side.
It was running the Knee with a 1200 oz-in motor and 60VDC power supply. John
I hope it's helpful. -- Rafael _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
