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martyscncgarage wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:59 am If you find that that there is no power LED or hearbeat LED on your Beagle Bone Green(BBG). STOP!

Don't be so quick to assume that it has died!

Do some trouble shooting procedures first:

• 1. Disconnect the ethernet cable from Acorn
  2. If you have removable headers (Acorn Hardware Revision 3) unplug ALL but the power connector
  3. Power up Acorn and see if the power led comes on and heartbeat returns.
  4. If it DOES, then power it down and plug the Ethernet cable back into BBG and retest. If heartbeat is present, try and start CNC12 to see if it comes up (communication established)

If heartbeat DOES NOT come up with everything disconnected from Acorn, but the power led on Acorn does, then proceed to the debricking procedure.
If your BBG is dead, then you may order a Beagle Bone Green from a supplier of your choice, and then perform the debricking procedure to load the Centroid firmware back on Beaglebone.

If you have an older Acorn hardware revision, take a picture of which terminal your wires go, mark the wires and disconnect them follow the procedure outlined above.

If the Acorn heartbeat comes on and then goes off as the PC boots, disconnecting the ethernet cable may help diagnose this.

Lastly, if no heartbeat, pull BBG off the Acorn mainboard and power it up via the mini USB port on BBG as if you were going to debrick it. Does it boot up and heartbeat LED come back? If so, could be an issue with the Acorn board.

Just don't be so quick to assume BBG has died without doing basic test procedures first. I have been through about a dozen+ Acorn builds and haven't had one go bad on me yet. But I have had the heartbeat not come on, and found it was something OTHER than BBG.

Marty

Fastest1 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:06 pm

martyscncgarage wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:59 am If you find that that there is no power LED or hearbeat LED on your Beagle Bone Green(BBG). STOP!

Don't be so quick to assume that it has died!

Do some trouble shooting procedures first:

• 1. Disconnect the ethernet cable from Acorn
  2. If you have removable headers (Acorn Hardware Revision 3) unplug ALL but the power connector
  3. Power up Acorn and see if the power led comes on and heartbeat returns.
  4. If it DOES, then power it down and plug the Ethernet cable back into BBG and retest. If heartbeat is present, try and start CNC12 to see if it comes up (communication established)

If heartbeat DOES NOT come up with everything disconnected from Acorn, but the power led on Acorn does, then proceed to the debricking procedure.
If your BBG is dead, then you may order a Beagle Bone Green from a supplier of your choice, and then perform the debricking procedure to load the Centroid firmware back on Beaglebone.

If you have an older Acorn hardware revision, take a picture of which terminal your wires go, mark the wires and disconnect them follow the procedure outlined above.

If the Acorn heartbeat comes on and then goes off as the PC boots, disconnecting the ethernet cable may help diagnose this.

Lastly, if no heartbeat, pull BBG off the Acorn mainboard and power it up via the mini USB port on BBG as if you were going to debrick it. Does it boot up and heartbeat LED come back? If so, could be an issue with the Acorn board.

Just don't be so quick to assume BBG has died without doing basic test procedures first. I have been through about a dozen+ Acorn builds and haven't had one go bad on me yet. But I have had the heartbeat not come on, and found it was something OTHER than BBG.

Marty

I cant believe something as simple as unplugging the Ethernet would work but it sure did. Not really sure why I lost the heartbeat but I was wiring live. Thanks

Fastest1 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:17 pm All seems well. I was hooking up some mechanical switches at the time.