new emergency stop?

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  • October 26, 2013 at 11:20 am #4870
    tomking505
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    While trying to fit a stupidly large aluminum heat sink on my driver chips, my board stopped cold. It didn’t die or reset, but all the motors stopped moving. Near as I can tell, I must have hit one of the SPI pins with the heat sink.

    I did some quick research of SPI, and couldn’t explain it. Does anybody have an idea?

    While my board was not harmed, did I do something bad? Or is this an acceptable way to trigger an emergency stop? Is this better or worse than using the reset button for an e-stop, like I do now?

    Thanks,

    Tom

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    October 26, 2013 at 12:04 pm #4873
    tomking505
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    In the message above, I should have said ICSP, not SPI. ICSP is In-Circuit Serial Programming. Sorry.

    October 26, 2013 at 10:14 pm #4874
    Riley
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    When you plug in your programmer it issues a reset. Simple enough. Its not dangerous just don’t do it while doing something or you will lose 🙂

    TO BE CLEAR:
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    !!WE DO NOT HAVE AN EMERGENCY STOP!!

    Pretty dramatic but its true. A E stop is only implemented via a physical power disconnect (speaking on behalf of Synthetos). We provide some software stop’s / resets but its not an E stop. I just want to make that point clear so you don’t cut off your fingers because of a bug I might introduce in the future 🙂

    ril3y

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