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Thanks for the advice. I will take your suggestion and try cleaning the pins. This is my second drive that has failed and will send both back to have them inspected.

Peter

Nope, I can send it back to Gecko for repair but it will probably cost more than a new one, but I will check...

This morning I swapped the Z stepper driver with the Y and it works!!! Bad stepper driver.. I guess I shouldn't care why it went bad but it would be nice to have some idea....
Tom once again, thank you for sticking with me on this!!!

Peter

Yup, will do that tomorrow.
Please know how much I appreciate your assistance. The one good thing about all of this and maybe most issues like this with a CNC is that you get to know your systems soo much more than before something like this occurs.

I will keep you posted.
Peter

Good, morning. I tried the suggestions. I should have mentioned that I have a DB25 card with my Acorn setup. So what I did was change the connections on the DB25 board for the Z axis to pins 8 and 9, previously the Z was 6 and 7. Changed the configuration setting to use the rotary drive and assigned...

Yes, the Z axis DRO does change...
Thank you very much for your reply. I will try your other suggestions tomorrow and reply back.

Much appreciated!!!
Peter

I just want to update my post - Since posting this yesterday I have checked the cable to the Z stepper motor, contactor and contactor fuse and all are working OK. If I swap a stepper cables, for instance swapping the Y with the Z, the issue will follow the swap and cause the Y axis to not move... No...

The Z axis on my router stopped working. I last used this machine a few weeks ago and everything was working fine. I can manually jog the X and Y axis but not the Z. I've checked the fuses and also did a continuity check on the cable to the Z axis stepper and it looks OK, haven't checked the stepper...

Thanks Keith!!

I was re-watching this video again and 4:15 into the video you are instructed to turn the firewall settings for both private and public networks off, only for the bench test. So, I'm assuming that once this bench test has been completed you are supposed to reset this option back to on. Something I f...