Hi,
Just received TinyG today, testing it now, had all the wires conneted, power supplied cnnected 5V and 12V for the stepper Motor, now how do I load this file: "man_on_the_silver_mountain.gcode" onto coolterm?.
Newby here
Looking at your video, make sure you have the correct serial port speeds - I believe it should be 115200, not 9600. If you hit enter a few times, you should see the tinyg prompt. also, make sure you use software (XON/XOFF) flow control, not hardware. Try running a few gcode commands manually and make sure your steppers jog, set your current limits and seek rates, etc.
Good luck!
Hi,
The serial port = 115200, XON ticked.
"make sure you use software (XON/XOFF) flow control, not hardware."
Do you mean by ticking the check box next to XON?
Gcode sample created from Rhinocam2.0pro:
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G21
(2 1/2 Axis Profiling)
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M5 M9
M30
Usually when the power supply is on the stepper motor's shaft should locked, but my motor shaft is not, the current limit is all the way cw, Do I need to enable it?...need help here
Have you tried typing commands to the TinyG board by hand? I have not used CoolTerm, but assuming that you have selected the correct COM port, have the unit powered on, plugged in, etc, when you press the reset support on the TinyG you should get a greeting message and a prompt in your terminal window. If you type, it should echo, and you can manually type gcode to the board.
If that isn't working and you have the serial speed set correctly, you're either not connected to the right serial port, or there's some other low-level issue. I'd start by figuring out if Windows recognizes the board when you plug it in by looking at your devices list. In Windows 7, mine shows up as a "FT232R USB UART".
The steppers are not locked because the power management mode is on by default. If they were locked the motor LED would be on. This mode is settable by using $nPW=1, or can be turned off by $xPW=0. Where n is the motor number as indicated on the board silkscreen (default mapping is 1=X, 2=Y, 3=Z, 4=A).
Please note that in version 0.93 (due out shortly) this will change to $nPM. The configuration details can be found here. http://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=TinyG:Configuring
Thanks for the reply.
After reading this page:
http://www.synthetos.com/wiki/index.php?title=Synthetos.com%27s_Wiki:TinyG-UsingTG:
@ Hardware configuration, there's the answer, and default win7 has no hyperterminal unlike in XP, so I have to downloaded from this link:
http://files.digitizor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/hyperterminal1.zip
thanks
Decided to use my own 3 phase stepper driver to TG, from ATXMega192A3 Pin 62(step),63(Dir) to Leadshine Puls-, DIR-, Puls+ & Dir+ are shorted and wired to +5V.
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