Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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Followed the drawing. Only 4 wires. Bad motor? It works when wired to a g201.
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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tuffduck wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:25 am Why would 201s work and 214s not work. I have a revision 2 that works but 3 revision 3s that do not.
I can only speak to the drive I tested. There is a second one, I will check it tomorrow.

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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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Please consider this unresolvable.
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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tuffduck wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:40 am Please consider this closed.
6 pages and no posting of the resolution?
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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I just had time today to check the second GR214V. No issue. It behaves the same as the first one.
However, I noticed the microstep dipswitch settings on the UART+Standby marked unit are reversed from the non marked unit.
In any case both drives work fine with Acorn

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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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Okay, thanks Marty. They were shipped back early this morning. Moot Point. The idea was to run two motors concurrently but oh well.
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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tuffduck wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:24 pm Okay, thanks Marty. They were shipped back early this morning. Moot Point.
Not moot really.
Just pointing out that the GR214v drives do work well with Centroid Acorn.
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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I get it, but it is time to make a call when you have 400 hours and $800 thrown at a problem that never got resolved. I have one drive running fine right now and it has been for 5 months. The problem arose when a three had to work together. Testing a single drive on one setting for a few moments answers very little in the scheme of things. Hopefully, no else encounters this problem.
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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Many questions unanswered. Centroid testing only echoed what I already said I managed to accomplish.
Three axis were tested together
No tests under load were done
Why do Gecko 201 drives work and 214 with the revised wiring do not?
I have been running 2-201's and 1 - 214 since July but couldn't switch the 201's for 214's, why?
All suggestions and changes since July have been carried out and the problem still persisted.
I have attached a copy of this thread for the people at Geckodrive to review and see if they have any insight.
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Re: Gecko 214 Wiring Diagram To Acorn

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Are all the stepper motors the same make and model, all windings connected in the same manner?
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