I will be testing with an airedale, though thereās almost an embarrassment riches in GPIO on that doberman!
Have you put a DMM on your 5V rail on the 6X?
Sorry, David.
I bought bolts to use with the build I started, and I just donāt think a trip to cut/grind old printer rails down will fit in my schedule near-term. So I did a quick remix and sent some modified parts off to the Core One L. I want to get the small MPR&P assembled and running before I leave for SMRRF so that I can work on the big MPR&P after I get back and before RMRRF.
Itās just a simple remix to push the holes all the way through for the bolts.
Iāll do the same with the motor mounts for my first build.
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Not yet. Switched to USB to get the job done that day and havenāt touched it since.
Wifi worked once every 5-10 boot cycles. Might have to scope itā¦ Iām guessing itās draw during boot thatās the issue. I dunnoā¦ I havenāt looked at the schematics. The Airedale itself continues to work fine.
Itāll pop back up to the top of my list of distractions at some point.
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Iām continually frustrated with myself and my chronic procrastinationā¦ I could have done this weeks ago. But here it isā¦ and late, as usual.
Finally decided to switch out the little 8-bit GRBL controller with a Jackpot V1 and FluidNC. Here Iām air-milling one of @joegomez1479ās badgesā¦ and Iām impressed at how much smoother, quieter, and snappier it is. I used a proper config.yaml with LR4 speeds and accelerationsā¦ only changing the steps/mm to get me pretty close to scale moves.
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Nothing wrong with the original controller! You built a spare parts box build and I suspect that others would do the same.
Yes, those TMCs are amazing and FluidNC does a great job of running the machine.
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I suspect that had I switched to the stronger Jackpot soonerā¦ I might not have spent so much time trying to adjust the Z-lift leadscrew and might have moved on. Watching the machine now, I have no doubt that itās doing fineā¦ and suspect that it would have done quite well with one, if not several, of the printed leadscrews I tried.
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I love the flexibility the machine has. I think the beefier lead screws would probably have been just fine for a bootstrap build, but youāre going to see that machine is a beast with the current config.
I need to get mine up and running. Wait till you see what happens with closed loop stepper controlā¦ (which would need something like the doberman board in the FluidNC ecosystem)
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Hmm. Still hankering to build one of these but also foiled by the EMT. 23.4mm O/D. Only seen an approximate equivalent in aluminium so far. I shall keep looking 
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Canāt wait! With all the traveling and build activity youāre planning for the upcoming shows, Iām holding my breath and get tired just thinking about itā¦ 
Hereās a better video of the first air-milling moves of MPR&P that shows positive control with the Jackpot controller and FluidNC and configured with LR4 speeds and acceleration. Iāve changed only the steps/mm settings on all axis to provide proper scale movement.
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