I finally got things wired up tonight and had a test of stuff.
In a nutshell, when I tell X axis to move 100mm (g1 x100) it moves 100mm (or close enough, tape measure accuracy) when I move Y axis 100mm it moves 200mm (again, tape measure accuracy)
I’m using Pronterface to send manual G commands, and as a test I tried moving axis from within the screen menu system - both resulted in twice the distance on the Y axis only (for positive and negative co-ords)
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Any ideas? I confirmed the X, Y & E steps are at 200 (Z was higher at 800)
The board itself seems to be hard locked to whatever microstepping value it’s set to, which looks like “maximum of what is allowed” whatever that means. (source - yeah it’s not an official document)
According to the firmware labeling, it’s 32steps but I doubt the firmware has different values for the X & Y axis (as confirmed I guess, by the 200steps setting as seen on the control screen)
Jumpers under your stepper drivers set them to various multiples, if you are using DRV8825 drivers then you should have all the jumpers in place which gives you 1/32 stepping. If one is set to 1/16 instead you would see double the distance for the same number of microsteps.
the trigorilla board in question has no jumpers. It’s set for maximum allowed apparently. I looked all over the board, couldn’t find anything resembling microstepping jumpers.
Halving the steps for the Y axis will reduce the resolution right? I mean it’s probably not going to be noticeable to the nekkid eye, especially on MDF or even ply.
Hi, im also using a Trigorilla board, it uses 1/16 stepping which is not changable. You should change this line in the config so it looks like this instead. using half of the original valuses (intended to be used with 1/32 stepping)