It really looks like your polarity is backwards, did you test that?
No particular reason, I was just watching Doug Joseph (design8studio) YouTube video when I was building mine and liked the look of the back covers and saw he had a board mount to fit in it.
just to be clear this is the mount your referring too? if so I will print one and get it mounted.
I haven’t tested this with a multimeter yet, but I will tonight.
The red and black wires are just extensions I used from a quick-connect, and since I was plugging everything in late at night, I may have mixed up the wire colors and connected them to the wrong inputs.
Thanks for catching that!
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Yes, the position is very different.
Confirmed polarity is correct, just switched the extension wire by mistake. Again great catch!
In case anyone was interested, here’s how I grounded the router:
I attached the ground wire to the body using the housing screw shown in the photo, then routed the wire into the original wiring channel. To make room for the wire, I drilled a small hole in the top housing, fed the ground through, and sealed everything up with heat-shrink tubing. After that, I installed a new 3-prong plug on the end.
I could have just bought a new 3-wire plug, but once I opened the housing and saw the internal connections, it looked like it would require soldering—which isn’t a skill I have yet.
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I have your box printed, once installed i will re run the program and update.
Thanks again for the help and input from everyone! Very thankful!
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So all you did is move the board and it worked fine? Stretched wire comes to mind! what is the black wire by the last stepper that is nearly folded in half?
also that black wire(should be ground) is not Healthy at all! it looks like it is only half attached.
I wouldn’t say that exactly… there was definitely a grounding issue. As I mentioned before, after adding the ground to the router, it ran the program much farther before the same issue occurred. Yes I also relocated the board about 1.5 to 2 inches further back from the router’s crossing point. I’m not sure if “stretched wires” were part of the problem (I’m not even sure I fully understand what that means), but as of last night I switched to his recommended box mount, which puts the board in a much better position than before. Since making that change, everything seems to be running smoothly.
As for the last stepper, the wire just has a lot of heat shrink on it, but after switching to the new mounting box I was able to place it in a better position with less stress. Thanks for pointing that out!
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