Frustration is finally creeping into my voice 
Intermittent is the worst. Try some air cuts and see how it handles with some real motors.
So we had a couple boards, 3-5, that had pins in the driver sockets that were in the wrong spot. So they would short together. I that was around the time you got your board.
So maybe popping the drivers back in moved the pins just right, so they are not shorting anymore, if it happens again I am not scared to pop off the shields to fix them, and I will trade you boards.
It was short lived. I think I’m done. I’ve spent entirely too many hours on this thing.
When you had this sent back, did you get the Jackpot only or did you get everything?
At this point I’m not sure what to make of it. If this board were one of mine, it would go on the test bench as something really funky is going on.
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It was the board+esp.
Board, esp, and drivers.
Remind me on Monday and we will swap it out.
In my head I see the board as it, the esp and the drivers all attached :laugh:
Also, reminder.
Has anyone with a known good working setup tried running this test? I assumed FluidNC would throw an error if the motors were disconnected.
The board doesn’t seem to care. If you $ss it, it will show that it’s missing the motors but in usage it doesn’t throw an error.
Very minor update. I’d planned on holding off until I actually made the machine do some work, but other projects have stepped in line so the wood working is on back burner. No saw dust in the garage for a bit, I just cleaned it and will be painting my sons jeep over the next week. Dust can fly again once that’s done.
So replacement board is in and I’ve made quite a few air cuts, lots of jogs, squaring etc and so far everything looks good. I switched from AP to STA and haven’t run into any issues during the limited runs I’ve done. I’ve run the same files back to back to back and haven’t seen any of the old issues pop up.
So thanks to ryan and everyone that has pitched in with info and advice.
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I’m glad you’ve finally got it running well.
I’m also really curious what the deal was with the last one being such a problem.
I’m guessing i built it on top of an Indian burial ground…
Beyond that no idea. I ran it with no problems a bunch. Well no non user caused problems anyway. Then it started dropping (making up numbers because i didn’t actually track) every 10th time i ran, then 5th and then every other until it wouldnt work at all.