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    jjwebster
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    Hi, I recently built a v1Engineering Lowrider v2… I was able to get up and running with Grbl running on an Arduino Uno w/ gShield v5. I also have an Arduino Due which I flashed with g2Core v101.03 from the prebuilt binary… flash went well, I have the gShield wired in with a 24V power supply. I am using CNCjs running on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+. The g2Core controller can be configured via CNCjs console, and responds via console out to jog commands as if motors are moving, but there is no motion. I found many posts about having to enable the axes via $xam=1, $yam=1, etc… but that didn’t help. I also turn Power Management and Power Levels on/off/sideways/etc. I also tried to jump the “m3enab” pin to ground, and then 3.3v, thinking it may have a physical enable requirement. In addition, I tried running CNCjs on my laptop, and also tried to use Chillipeppr. Nada. I also compiled g2core via my Mac and flashed the .bin (and also tried flashing the .elf to be sure)… and the results are the same.

    No matter what I do, I can’t get motion. Do I need connect any enable pins on the Due? As noted, I tried ground and 3.3v on the m3enab pin on the 50-pin header on the Due, but I’m reluctant to randomly probe pins.

    #11810
    cmcgrath5035
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    Sorry, missed thia post a while ago.
    Did you get up and running?

    M3enab pin is an output, not an input. When using Gshield, which was developed for GRBL FW, all motors are enabled/disabled by the GRBLEnab pin which connects to the shield.

    Did you flash or compile using the Gshield header files?

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