I swapped out my Jackpot1 controller for a new Jackpot3 for my LR4 after the power connection became loose and it would power off randomly. With the new controller all motion works fine and all the end stops triggered correctly. I squared the table and then trammed my Z axis. I loaded gcode and successfully ran a program to cut the holes in my new spoilboard. I then ran a longer program to cut the relief slots for the Matchfit dovetail slots. After the relief cuts finished perfectly I changed tools to the dovetail bit and had an error that the probe was in an unexpected state. The webUI shows that the probe was triggered even though the magnet (Doug’s print to replace the clamp with a magnet) and the plate were not touching. I turned off the power to the controller and waited a minute and turned it back on. When I logged into the webUI the probe was still in the triggered state. Turned it off. Unplugged the probe wired Aron the board and plugged them back in. Powered on, still triggered. I removed the board and checked the top and bottom of the board and didn’t see anything strange. Reinstalled the board on the machine and still in triggered state. I switched the probe to GPIO 39 and updated the config file and it all worked as expected. Ran a surfacing job and when it finished the probe was again in the triggered state and I cannot get it cleared.
So far I have verified continuity in the clamp wire and plate wire and visually inspected them for torn insulation. They are fine. The clamp side is on the negative pin on the Jackpot3 and the plate is on the positive pin. My dust collection hose has a wire in it and that is grounded to the electrical box the power for the router and controller are plugged in to. The Jackpot3 is powered by a 24v power supply from Amazon that was linked from the V1E store.
This is driving me nuts. Any help is greatly appreciated.
The Z probe is different from the end stops. The end stops are configured for normally closed, and trigger when the circuit opens. The Z probe is configured for normally open and triggers when the circuit closes.
Try:
Touching the plate to the magnet and see if that registers as untriggered, which would indicate that the logic is backwards.
Touch +3V3 or +5V to the trigger line (NOT the ground line) and see if that handles it. If so, that would be a problem with the pullup resistor being open. The logic here is that if the input is left floating, once it is grounded, it won’t rise to logic high again on its own. Connecting to +3V3 or +5V (Maybe through a 1k resistor would be safer) will raise the pin to logic high and clear the triggered state. Note that if you use a different voltage supply, the voltage supply must have ground connected to the Jackpot ground.
Check with a multimeter that you get voltage across the plate to the clamp. This is probably the easiest if you have a multimeter.
Looking through it some more I see a lot of extra “stuff” has been added. You should download Ryan’s config and upload it. That should fix your issues.
This is what was on the Jackpot3 when I bought it from Ryan. I took it out of the box and used it. I updated pull offs and stuff in the settings interface of the webUI. When I changed to on 39 that was the first time I opened the file.
I will download and try the file you linked and try it all again tomorrow. I am done with technology for the day. lol
Well. I tried it tonight. Loaded a fresh copy of the config file from the link posted here, and moved the probe wires over to pin 36. And…the probe is showing as triggered in the webUI, and I get the same error message that it’s in an unexpected state.
