Protoneer.co.nz Electronic Protoyping Specials. Arduino CNC Shield V3.XX — Assembly Guide This is a quick guide to help with assembling the Ardulno CNC Shiela V3.XK, ‘We ao havea ciscussion forum fortis board hapy/forum protoneer.conziiewforum.oh?-6 Contents: + Assembly Steps Fest Run + Jumper Settings. + Ath Axis Configuration + End Stop Configuration + Configuring Mero Stepping for Each Aes Fist step ist slder the Power Wiret or Fuse) and 10K Rt} resistor in place (ersion 3.03 and on does not need the Power Wie anymore) 2. 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Robot of the Shield Sketchup Stepper Driver se provided header pins in place. For sige and work ta the ater side, By working on eee) 4, Because of the height ofthe capacitors needed, we decide to mount them ttlzing ll the space under the stepper drives, This also leaves a bigger‘gap between the capacitors and the stepper érvers allowing more vention ‘To mount the capacitors horizontally start by bending the capactor leads 90 degrees. 1. Then solder them in place making sure shat posive lea san the side with the Capacters are usually marked with a*—* inecating te grounainegative lead. 5. Before soldering the stepper driver headers in place it might be easier to slder the Arduino headers in place. {usually do i by inserting the headers into an Arno board and then by placing the shield ontop of them before I soldering ther ln place. This ensures tnt the headers are avays aligned and straignt. 6 Last bits ate to Solder the Stepper crver headers in place. use the same principle as with the Ardulno Board to align the Stepper Driver headers.WARNING ‘The Aino CNC Shield supports power supplies upto 36¥, That doesnot mean tha all Polol Stepper drivers can run that hgh, A4B6S drivers are nt designed to run at 36Vand wll blow up the fst time you power them up at that voltage. The 36V ae for erivers ke the Potolu DRVBEZS that can run on +36, First Run ‘To make sure all parts function as they shoul, we need to go trough a pre-ight checks Pre-ight Checklist 10a wsual check ofall slcered points on the new boar 2. Pug the shield inte an Arduino boars wth a pre-installee copy ofthe GREL Firmare £3. Open upa serial connection tothe Arduino board and check f GRBs tunnngt use Put to connect to GRBL) 4. Pololu stepper divers need adjustment and it's good to have a read through their ‘online manuals at Polou.com 5. Testing each stepper controle socket individuals crea | Wale sute the external high volage power isnot power-up or connectes 1. Connect stepper motor tothe stepper controler socket you want to tst This is very important because the Pollu Stepper drivers are desgnes to ramp up the current lt reaches the needed current to run, Without a stepper motor connected ther will de nothing to consume the current and you can end up damaging the stepper diver ft overheats inthe proces. Newt install he stepper motor driver ensuring that he enable pn onthe aver aligns with the enable in on the shel 1. Connect the external power te the shies, making sure you connec the power up the right way. not connected the right way you can cause damage to the held, stepper motor drivers and Arduino board Senda g-ode tothe Axis you are testing, The stepper motor should mave it everything is working. (GCode Example :°G1 XS? oF “G1 x0? or “61 ¥52) Repeat the above process with each aus usng the same stepper dvr Testing ith one driver reduces the risk of damaging multple stepper drivers at he same ime} 6. Aterallthe above have been checked connec all the drivers and power up the system, ‘Tips and info When the stepper drives are enabled they wll make funny vibrating noses. This is rnoxmal For more details havea lok at this wiki page(chopper rivers) 1 The stepper arivers wll get warm and need coling if they ae going tobe used for long periods. Small heatsinks and extractor fans are advised 1 Having era stepper ervers is alays handy. + Some ofthe stepper drivers have thermal protection and wil cutout ifthe temperature gets to high. This 3 good sign that they need cooling or that they are cover powered, Jumper Settings: "Jumpers are used to configure the Ath Axis, Mier stepping and endstop configuration. ‘The next few sections explains how its done. 4th Axis Configuration Using two jumpers the Ath axis can be configured to clone the X or ¥ or Z axis. team also ‘un as a inaidval axis by using Digital Pio 12 fr Stepping signal and Digital Pn 13 as Gooue 122 Thoughts on “Arduino CNC Shield V3.XX ~ Assembly Guide” Johan den duk fon 2013/10/21 at 747 am sa: Hi [wanted to krow what the end stops nye how to connect it please eal me circuit connection example Bers Kroger‘on 2013/10/21 at 9:2 pm sal ‘Aterwards, once you decide that you're ready or would like to ‘enable homing and/or hard limits, you'l need te connect a ‘normally-open limit switch to each ofthe limit pins (09-011). Homing and hard limits use the same switches. These mit pins are already held high with an internal pull-up resistor, soa you have 0.60 is wire them to ground, So when you close a switch, the ‘switch wil ull Ue limit pinto ground. f youd lke to have hard limit switches on both ends of travel of an axis just wire two limit ‘Switches in parallel tothe axis limit pin and ground, That's it Just ‘make sure you have the switches installed before attempting to perform a heming ele. Pingback: Arduino CNC Shield ~ 100% GREL Compatable | Px vu fon 2013/11/08 at 5:11 am sad donot te the end-contacts that close to reporting mits, Indeed, fa wie alsconnecs, cus ors broken: bye-bye safety! ‘The best protections achieved by Inking the two sitches “normally closed" which ‘cause the top opening the circu In this way, fa wire le broken or dleconnacted the cnc freezes immediatly at sfety think the easiest nd most effective isthe program detects the discontinuty before each move Telly, we could use these 3 enrles to define the origin ofeach machine axes XZ and 2:"home" Che? ‘Exceeding the mit causes an immediate stop, 35 woul the emergency Sitch, ‘And by using only one input for bath (Sorry fr my bas Enh) Bertus Kruger ‘on 2013/71/10 51 pm sai MH ‘Thanks for your comments. Currently GRBL only supports “Normally Open” end stops as decides on by the head developers ofthe software. The Pins are configured with internal pllup resistors and will only activate the interrupts fon a state change(Grounding i. ‘This however doesnot stop you from writing your own code that wll use Normally Closes” end stops and spliting one of the SV pins onthe current board to workewith Hope this answers your question.Saki Bach fon 2013/12/16 93:4 pm sai {am newbie on arduin and keto make CNC with Arduino uno, [About normal open switch design gr, thine can install normal close with put Invert logic this by transistor or TTL/CMOS inverter logic before Arduino pn ‘At persent | am waiting some material and Ike to test ArduinoCNCN ene this ‘nth ‘Tanks a fot for al information. Regards Bertus Kroger (on 2013/12/16 3 9:36pm sai Hi ‘There area few people that have converted GREIto use Alwasy closed switches Curent my sie only has pins for Normally open switches but Lam working on 2 revised version that will allow you to pk between normally open or normaly closed switches, Good luck with the bul ane have fu. Regards, Bertus Magnus persson 19n2014/01/08 at 747 am sald hello. have just bull his shel, small query regarding texystep dir what does it mean? en / gd what does it mean Bers Kroger ‘on 2014/01/08 9:26 pn sai Hi The EN/GND to SW/GND cow of pins ar for connecting external stepper drivers tote board The EN stand for enable and X/2/A Sep-Dicis he step and direction signal for each axis. Thomas tuner 19n2014/01/10 39:39 pm sal Hi Bert ‘Nicely made and super cheap works great (Only one question How can [use the the Aas. As far as know orginal grb firmware doesnot support an Axl. A far a8 I understood frm browsing the code, al sted pins have to reside onthe same port, wich I guess i not possible onthe uno, only on the mega Arduino. Greets fom Austria! TomBert Krger ‘on 2014/03/01 at 6:00pm sl: HiTom, ‘The Ais is mostly used to clone XY or Z. But can also accessed from pin 11 and 12 with custom software, rmathias Mahler on 2014/02/08 at 731 am sald eto ‘have 3 ofthis one ntepl tn lol.com/produc/1182 can useitwith the boars? regards Bers Kroger ‘on 2014/03/01 at 6:02pm sai ‘Yes. This board was designe for hem, rmathias Mahler on 2014/02/08 at 738 am sald: | mean because ofthe naming you made on the AXIS field 2 a Mm x but the drivers in post above have other pin namings 28 28 18 18 orisit my decision? Bertus Kruger ‘on 2014/03/01 a 6:03pm sal Hi The fist eter i the col and the secon eter is the lead, Same thing just a aferen notation range on 2014/02/13 at S43 am sald4 havea problem.thave cloned the ¥ als, t have two motors in this axe ‘One moter running in one dection and the ather cu in anather direction. se polo 24988, can you help me”? thanks! Bertus Kruger ‘on 2014/02/13 3 6:47am sai HiT ixthis you can swap one af he stepper motor cables around. That wi Invert the stepper direction, range 10n2014/02/13 t 01 am sald: ‘hanks 1 soNed the problem swap one of he stepper motor and ali ok now. ‘But Ihave anather problem , more serious, two pololus have been burned, inthe same socket, the x xs, The only noteworthy aspects that one of the capacitors came beaten and put this capacitor onthe xa... sit possible?” ‘Te cnc works fine a minutes but then x axis dont work 1Thave put big snk allvays (129. hanks forall Bers Kruger ‘on 2014/02/13 at 4 am sai Fst thing onote. never aconnect the steppers while the stepper divers are poweres, Doing that wll ver curren the driver ana cou lit permanenth. ‘Best woul be to double check the soldering onthe x als and cepace the Cop Incas isthe issue. (e sue to put the cap the right way around) rangel ‘on 2014/02/73 at 7:35pm sae shanks for annser. never sisconnect the steppers when Its powered, ‘The soldering is ok=1strted a Soler 10 years ago. Ion" hk his is the problem. Ihe caps nthe ght way... ging ean. Thisafternoon!illeplace she capacitor... bts posible that hss the problem 7 he capac”? ‘hanks for all bes regards on 2016/02/18 at 8:28 pm sa: ello alt 1 replaced the capacltor and ali okt ‘hanks fo alt ers kruger‘9n201403/01 st 607 pm a: Great tuft Regprds. range on 2014/02/13 at 856 am sald Yes know, dort disconnect the steppers while the steper divers are powered {have checked the soldering... and the capi nthe right way. ‘When swap the pololu onthe ax’ works fie, but rm worry to damage another polols(t have only one pola replacement thanks Lue De pauw on 2014/04/10 at 151 am sald: "ve bought the elecrow version ofthe boa red to use a pool drvB825 which con the poll se sais drop in replacement fr A&9BB but heartaches stepper oes not move nor draw ary curren...ary help appreciated. ertus Kruger ‘on 2014/04/16 a 9:46am sae Hi Have a ook at setting $15 n GRBL might be that needs inverting to enable. Please let me know how I goes. tue De pauw ‘on 2014/05/09 at 11:47 pm sae: ‘here are 2 versions ofthe pollu DRVBE2S 2st version which has item 19-2132 and 2 secon version wth item ne 2723 The fst on is mising he ‘middle resistor on the bottom and needs some extra rst attached to the lep line, The second version works aut of the bx. Alls working now, only had t reverse the stepper Ines order for theX ans and Z were Identical 1used 3 identical polly steppers withthe same wire col. soon post about my setup on my blog, ‘0 2014/05/07 a 658 pm sa: ‘Thanks forthe comme Yes the st version, VERSION A needed 2 bi ‘of help running but they work well one they ae up. Looking forward to seeing your blog, ©Mat Helm fn 2014/08/15 at 27 pm sal What exactly dose this mean "nthe tables below High indicates that a jumpers insert and Low indicates that row jumper is connecied” Does "insert asin inserted) mean connected? Bers Kroger ‘on 2014/04/16 3 9:23am sai Hi Lhave updated the wording. Inserted and connected isthe same thing, ys. ‘jumper’ function so act as 2 removable connection between pins or 10n2014/04/16 at 378 am sald ‘The ste and documentation makes mention ofa th axis with custom fare ‘What woul the custom frmaare option be to run ath axis with this? And what ‘ype oft axis could it support if grbl doesnt support a Ath axis yet? Bert Kroger (on 2014/04/16 2 9:38am sai Hi Gregory, ‘itn Custom femwvare mean non-GRBL firmware. In the past Ihave writen Ile apps that moved all axes independently but nothing as complicated as rat, Regards. Arie fn 2014/08/16 at 745 am sald >My 1270 Daughter is about to put 2of your Ks together, wil not be the fist kit for her. Some thoughts; Why ne schematic? How to decide fusewice with no schematic or explanation? Why nota POF ofthese instruction, some of us dant have good internet inal the Iocation that we work Looks good otherwise so for Thanks Bertus Kruger (on 2014/04/16 3 9:22am sai ‘Thanks fr the feedback Schematics is avaiable ngpfblogprotoneer.c.naarduina-ne-shield/ardulno-ene-hield-cematc weedVersion 2.07 and up doesnot use the fuse wir anymore (take tyou have version 303) POF s 2 good ides. have updated the sit ovr the ast few days and it would have been very helpful to have that (Lam aso loking2t upgrading to 2 wit), o you have a project page? kind regards. Gerd Lobmeyer on 2014/04/26 at 12:61 am sad 1 1already ordered the V3 now, Sorry, I's embarassing, but where dot connect the mators onthe board? ind regards Bertus Kruger (0n2014/08/26 a 10:19 am said: Hi No worries. you tok atthe ollowingpctre ofthe shield hhapblogprotoneer.co.nahwp-content/uploads/2013/07/Arduino-CNC-Shel VsLayoutjog Con he righ ofeach stepper driver socket are pins. These ae the connections tha got the stepper motors. The x axis socket has marking to show how each col lon the stepper needs tobe connected on 2015/12/28 at 7:21 am sa i Tam tying to connect motors. My bipolar Nema 23 motor has 4 wires sticking out of On your shits you have markings ext ote place where ‘motor goes that say 82,81 A1A2. 1am assembling my own Dupont Jumpers. How do know which eal from mator goes which pn? Thanks! Bers Kruger (on 2015/12/20 2 122 pm ae: Have look at: plo protoneerconm/tepper-motorssirngp Bbipolarsteppermmotor? 2and 81a coiland AZ and Al sa ol To reverse direction jst snap the oil aroun. Gerd Lobmeyer fn 2014/08/26 at 12°56 am said Han adsiton question. 1 it possible to connect his controller tothe shield?tip Yen. cbay de/ien/CNC-Manual-3-Axis-Handle-Controller-For3-AusTBSSEO. Stepper-Motor-Drver-Board/3607207000237 ssPageNamesADMES3AKS3ADERPMSADESSAT1238Viw/temBitem=360730100023 Thankyou Bertus Kruger ‘on 2014/04/26 at 10:15 am ai Hi That pendent looks ike as designed specially or the Board it i used ith don think twill work wth the shield and meying it ill bas good as redesigning it. © Gerd Lobmeyer 19n2014/08/27 at 12:15 am sad 1H thankyou. Now I saw how the stepper needs o connect. dint saw te labels beside the X ax ‘The controler I thought has a standard connection lke agame port. thought t vl be helpful to have possibility to move the axis manually Sore, butt have another question now Lordered 3x A4988 diver forthe shield Which power ualt) and min. ampere do I need for that? Iwant to upgrade my ‘roxxan m{70 miling machine to ene. So there ae three avis to move ‘Again, sorry for such rookie questions. Regards Bertus kre (0n2014/08/27 a 9:29am said Dontt worry about the questions. Theae ll valid. ® ‘The fmmare used: GRBL does nota ths stage allow fo fot of manual control at this stage. thas pause, resume and abor. So it wil need 3 lot more ‘magic to make the controller do anything else but tis a prety cool idea though Wight look t some option inthe future) Powersupply wise. The 4988'S run on 8-35V DC. My suggestion would be to _getan old PC poner supply to tat with. They usually have some beety 12 ras that ean supply plenty of AMPS. ‘To caeulate the current usage s easy, Each driver can do 2 max of2, So Ifyou are going to use3 go fora 6A power supply and maybe BA for good luck. Having a power supply that has more Amps than needed means that the power supply ill be under less stress ang run cooler. ‘When yu start geting ito biger stepper drivers it gets more intresting. Some Stepper drivers can do over BA and having 3 power supply thats 124K ets very expensive. So they usually take into consideration that not a3 axes vwlleun athe same time and can then getaway wth a smaller power supple. ‘Alldepends on what you are going to do, TH you have more question, please go ahead and ask Kind regards. Gers Lobmeyer ‘on 2014/08/27 at 10:00 pr sae:‘Thank you very much fr the detalled answers. One as question unl got ‘he partin my hands. Is the Arduino powered from te shit ois it pomeres separately? Bers Kruger ‘on 201408/29 a 3 pm sa: ite Arduino s powered separately. Giorgos Amoi on 2014/08/06 at 309 am sald i and thank u fr allyour work. my fist question was answered above as to wiere to connect my stepper. second questions carfeation actually =\have 18.03 (thnk) bought from ebay, drv825crver bought on ebay (no pool but chinese replicate) and neme 17 12v 1.38 stepper in rv 8825 schematic the ‘connectors for steppers are from te opposite that u make them on your board looked inal your pcs and uallways have the immer side af dv facing the 12-360 connector. fe this? dant wanna dmg the diver or my stepper as un avery sigh budget thank win advance greetings from sunny greece @ Bertus Kruger ‘0n 2014/08/06 3 9:00am sai Wiecome Giorgos from sunny Greece. Con the backside ofthe drivers there shouldbe indicators of what each pin does. Look forthe enable/EN pin onthe driver and make sure that it goes into the pn onthe Shel with the marking EN and you shouldbe okay Giorgos Amoi (on 2014/08/07 at 426 am sald ‘thank u, wil de ane gt back tow wth resuts Jeferson mbes on 2014/08/11 at 253 am sald Hell, here’ from Braz 1 got 4 boards from Elecrom, Ver. 301, 0 test, and determine iT should use itn all ‘machines that wise soon, to buy mare. The Elecrow have the last Ver. 3.037 ‘My system uses the DAV8E2S with 236V power supply. Pulley 20 teeth, GT2bels ‘3mm, ané Nema 23 2A parallel bipolar) Steppers. reach 20,000 mm/min insearch {rm using a Openbulls system, like @OX Cre machine, with some custom platesiesign ‘But Lam having problems after instaling your en shield. guess it's about the EnablerReseSlep/ Fault pins ‘AILORVB825 pins are connected tothe CNC Shield. It's the new one, md208 1 ured to change the trvert step enable, boo” GAB. keep $15 = 1 (infact, 'm with GRBL VO., then it's $4» 1, the steppers hol. But vine I sent move command, the steppers shuts down. There's no movement, and Ian spin the stepper freely with hands (unt the command ends, then the ‘ator hold again. Ht come backto the default keeping 15 =0 (£40) the stepper is turned of, ie, there sno hol. But it turn on when sending commands +/- axis. The axes move, but when they stop, they shuts down, and cant hold again, 1 lays used these DRV882S inthe simple way o run, without endstp, ee sing this connection diagram: ith polos comipicture/0}4232.600.png Enable/Faut «Disconnect Reseu/Sleep =+5V What do you think? Ihave to disconnect some of ths four pins? Thawe the Ver. 5.0. ‘Thanks to make this board, and to Elerow for send it full assembled, 1s: Do you know where can buy the 825 full assemble too (pins welded), and ‘maybe withthe heat sik glued? I hate to weld electronics, and I love plug-r-play systems |eferson (a protoptinys (dot com (dot) br Bertus Kroger ‘on 2014/08/11 3 9:24pm sai Hi ‘What you are describing s norms. GRBL il go nt ele mode afer set {amount of time. This can be changed by setting $7 Step tle delay to 25.1 willkep the steppers enabled atall:imes jst keepin mind that his could cause things to get very hot. Not sure about assembled stepper avers but Ebay isa good place to start. Jeferson Sims on 2014/08/18 3t 642 am sad: ‘Thanks! never used the enable pn before, Now is perfect. (0 you know iis posible jus tn ovoff23 phase spine withthe Geb? got the chinese one, with the Huonyang Inverter (HY0105235, 1 widths hrg/hwn shapeokocomforum/vewtoplc php? 341-26898920719 rts kruger (on 20140825 2739 pm sal:(© Sorry am no sure about he 3 phase spindle as that sounds more ke a queston fr certfedelectrian heno 19n 2014/08/25 at 6:43 pm sai 1H on this board the pin of” SpnDir", How can connect and contral the spindle to this pin? Thankyou Bers Krager ‘0n2014/08/25 at 7:42pm sale ‘To.use this you needa spindle that uses an Sy input t contol the drcton ‘The spince enable pin canbe used with a relay to sien an AC spine 10 2014/09/12 29:20 pm sai Hell, {ma total newbie at this, and I woud ike to know how to connect he pins below ‘the capactors and more importantly, where and with wha to connect them incase ‘would tke to setup half step mode. You showed the picture wich fll ‘microstepping but I can't really help myself with that, because you probably have oir things up. Sorry for dumb questions but ma Mech, eng, and nat elecical and rarely work with electronics. Regards tone ‘on 2014/09/12 3 11:46pm si: [managed to make the half stp setting 1 se ts totaly eas. ‘What Lam wondering is hw complex shapes can you make with Arduino Uno, [mean Arduino UNO is one ofthe weakest fesices duemianave onthe ‘market and I doit know how easy isi for inerpelating several complex shapes Canthe same shel be used with lets say Ardulno Mega? Or shoul there be ‘made ary adltional changes with wiring? Regards Bertus kruger on 2014/09/15 3:02 pr sae: Hi You willbe surprised atthe capabilites of the ATbega326°...(GRBL that une with the CNC held works from steaming -Code. What ‘tha sys thatthe complex drawings you ae talking about gets broken dona int afe wth hundeeds of tines of commands to make movernens ‘nd that then sent to the Uno one command ata te ending up with 2 complex design being machined. The shield shouldbe okay with he Mega bbutthe software doesnot offi support. My suggestions isto give ita "ayon the UNO before you lokat other options... Kind regards wotrage on 2014/10/12 3t 658 am sald: ‘irs of thanks fr designing an awesome controle, and for your prompt customer support in previous user questions. "have construces the controller and now fm tying to plan the motor wiring. My ‘motors are rated a 3A per pase and the DRVBEZS divers are rated at 2.2 each My questions are Whar gage wire shouldbe used connecting the 4 pin ais headers tothe motor? ‘Wha is the curenc ating fr the headers? Also, would the 2.28 current be dvided bythe 4 pins, or would each pn eceve the fll current since tis pulsing through eachtomove? ‘Thanks forthe help! Wate ‘on 2014/10/12 37:00 am sai ‘A Also wanted to add that my system sunning on 26, Volage i always 3 relevant consideration when discussing power ratings @ ertus Kruger on 2014/1197 38829 pm sak: Vote satay not so important with these Chopper avers. They wi amp up the yokage til they gett these current and then cut he power, “hat alo the reason why dey ate so nosy and why the steppers canbe un at mulls ofthe rated voltage Bert Kruger (on 2014/10/17 a 827 pm sai Sorry for the late reply and thanks fr the ema The headers forthe stepper ‘motors ae rated at 2amps each. The max curren actualy dependant onthe female headers that are used wth the stepper wires. Cheaper molex connector aerated a frp with more expensive versons rated temps. ‘The problem you are facing is that at max amps things get noise anditis beter ‘te slder the cables in place than to have removable headers. ‘The DRVBE2S might berated at2.2Amp butt ould be haré to run them stable at that current. They ae very sense to heat and will need cooling, Theres also the the quay issue wth Pool deversbelng beter designed 0 deal with heat shan some ofthe Chines versions‘forthe question on current perp. Biopolar steppers have wo cll and when doing fll steps one col willbe uly powered and one not. My assumption i that wo af he pins wll be sharing the up to 2-2amps of current 2 atime. With miero-stepping on average ths load is shared over the pins because at 1/2 steps the cols il be sharing the power at 50% per cll, Picking the right wie s prety simple, make at east as thick as the wire coming fom the stepper a the installed wire will be defning feo. amp steppers are actually not the mast efcen steppers for these stepper drivers. Best would be to go for steppers rated at 2or just below tat Ifyou really want to drive 2amp and up| would sugges looking at Gecko stepper drivers hyppyaye Nico 19n2014/10/17 at 558 am sald: helo berts, ould you tell me where can buy a spindle for this shield? what about wring? Bertus Kruger ‘on 2014/10/17 2 8235 pm sai Its ble of ah long 2 string” question [am loking at using motos used or RC cas. The brushless motos from Hobby King are prety good and run at ‘04 rpm. Thing that does se spindles appar are how much side forces they «an take and how long they can run without overheating, have been tempted by this monster fora while leis wate cooled and if you power it correct wil go well ver 40K rpm. hyppyaye Nico on 2014/10/57 at 10:2 pm a: hell, my asks. seein the shield theres SPNen and SPNAH, ho cule Wire simple 2 wire OC mator? Only use the SPNen? (0n2014/10/27 a 38 am sa Bests to usea relay with the moter. The DC motor needs more ‘current than and Arduino can prove from its TO pins. There are plenty of relay Board avaiable that are Sy compatible ‘Andrew fn 2014/12/18 3285 pm sal 1H Sorry to sound alittle dum. But can you confirm that Sprién on the shield “connects f0"Ardulno pn 127 Also why ae there two pins each fer SpnEn Sond,ce Is one of them Gnd? If so which one. am hoping to switch the spindle on and off via software and a spindle control boar. Bertus Kruger ‘on 2015/01/28 at 11:46am sai: Have a look at his Ink It depends onthe version of GRBL you are running. ‘on 2015/01/30 9t 7:31am sa ‘Thanks Bertus but unfortunately Id not ee atk in your post ndren ers Kruger (0 2015/02/07 a 635 pm sa: sory for tha. tps/thub.comisrbigrbw/Connecing-Gr powercyce (9n2015/01/14 at 7:25 pm sai In step 5D you say to "make sure you plug the power inthe right way" What is considere the right way? ‘My thoughts that ould use aPC power supply and connect the -12V and +12V to ‘hat blue connector. Would his be te ight way? Bertus Kruger ‘on 2015/01/14 2 8:24pm sal [APC power supply can be used On the blve connector, connec the “Leound) upto the Slack wir side of12V and the “(postive upto the yell wire of the 12 side, powercycle 19n2015/01/15 2351 pm sai Great Thank! After checking hat there is indeed voltage coming out of the power supply, and connecting tup othe board, Ian get the baad t spin the motor. "missing the commands gen above “Gt X57 ut the motor doesnt move What ean I. fr further testing? ert Kruger ‘0n 2015/01/28 at 1201 pm sl1s GRBL reporting poston back? Ths Seems tke might be a GROL setings Issue powercycle (on 2015/01/28 at 12552 pm sai This now work. .1 had to use GOX1.0 to gett to move, ers Kruger ‘on 2015/01/28 a 1:95pm sai xcallent. Dimite 19 2015/02/28 at 1:07 am sald: ello [bought a uno + ene shield» (4) AA988; fra laser engraver sit possible ro se Spnén pin fire the laser2?"m new tothe whole thing, s forgive my ‘ignorance please, you havea better suggestion, please! Regards Dims ertus Kruger ‘on 2015/02/24 at 455 pm sl Its posite yes, Have look at ths discussion for more dea hnapsgenub convgrairblssues25 Hung ran ‘on 2015/08/05 a 5:10am sa: hello Serus Kruger. fam using en shield + arduno + laser. but dont know how to connect laser nto en hil. Can youhelp me? i ers Kruger (0201/08/06 a 601 pm sa: HL ttftsa simple vf ser all you nave odo io connect he laser ‘esble pn tothe spindle pin onthe board din pins are low ‘current and wil ot power a tser, $0 use some kn of relay or transstor to deve mare power. amet on 2016/01/70 at 11:46am salHi "have uno 326, with ene shielé with rb 9h. Tconnected to 27GN pins laser diver. ‘ut have some problem wth ono procedure sting lacr. When I send Laser ON ~ M3 command get Sv(22) and laser ne burning When [send Laser OFF = MS command get Ov (29 and aser start burning ‘Aso PW working reverse when 0 (22) laser is ON when | send 255 (52129 then laser OFF ‘0 you know method to reverse tha? witor sere kruger ‘on 2016/01/11 at 618 pm sa: ave lok atthe configh le. has "INVERT. SPINDLE. ENABLE PIN” ‘that needs tobe uncommented before uploading to reverse the spindle is. Pingback: CNC-SHIELO-300 | ZOVstore stelaan ‘on 2015/03/14 at 12:05 pm sai Hello Bertus bought the protoneer cnc shield, sit possible to controle the enc spindle motor with VO lke this one ep ilantrade.comvStock%20les/0008,p8 eps bulldyourenc.comtenveleconicsAndMoters-paralle-breakout ‘elaynpretyPhotora dont now with wire to connect to enc sehlld thanks in advonce Kind regards stefoan Bers Kroger ‘on 2015/03/14 at 1:42pm sie From what can see ft might not be that easy. Correct me fam wrong but Vi does not un at TLSV levee? ‘itn the GRBL v0.9 theres now an option todo spindle contol with PM, that might be an option but fieruns ether voltages you wll need a converter fist Berard fon 2015/04/12 2 10:18 am sae Bers,jus assembled today my fist CNC Shield, Went wel Then {started to fllow your preigh checks, checked tha rb was sill working fine with the shield lugged then started to send commands to X. as Irs where I plugged the pool, "heard a ditnet sound of stepper enabled, but no movernent ‘en {tested ¥ and 7, there the mator (same one) moved ‘Then {decided to test, cloning Z. Same as before, no move 501 tried still on A but cloning. Works! 1 dont nave clue on what to look for was thinking might reflash GREL, at seems the problem sin the firmoare rather than in the shel ver seen that before? Any dea on some tests could make? ‘Thanks in advance! Bertus Kruger ‘on 2015/04/20 3 2:56pm sal wat version GRBL are you running naticed that some imports of GRBL 109 as the PWM configuration on by default and tat ill not werk With the dlasic pi layout used with this board. (swaps the spindle and mit in) Erick Sauve 19 2015/06/12 a 2:8 pm sais 1H This is video of my fst un of my CNC machine using 3.03 GRBL shel, Inthe ‘video, fm doing only two movements: 100mm travel in y and 100mm travel nx ‘You can see the machine stop and go many time and there ia very strange noise coming out ofthe motor controller shield or the Arduino uno, Any lues about the problem? video :htips:/youtubeMt7LALNKQIGU thankyou frieesouve €0n 2015/06/13 3201 pm sal {just found this the sound doesnot come frm the shield or the arduino. It «came trom the » stepper. Thiss strange because no command is send tthe 2 stepper en i's making nose on 2015/05/74 at 1033 ams stepper diver wl stillpower the steppers while they are not mov. Think of bet driven machines, they have very tle resistance al il ‘move down because of gravy) and ifthe steppers nat held n poston wil arto turwmove, Does the nose Frequency change fyou reduce the current sting on tat stepper ever?ertus Kruger ‘0n2015/06/14 at 10:26 am sad: Hi wats the stepper driver temperatures ke? I know the DRVSERS vers are very sense to heat and I would say ning them without heatsinks wll bbe hard, The run, stop canbe thermal cutout These avers are also prety noisy when standing siholding current) Have you rea swapping the stepper drivers, ifthe swap changes he problems to another ais itcould bea driver Issue. Also double check solder joints onthe problem ai fallendoun ‘0n2015/06/13 at 649 am sad: HFT have V3.00 board that E-STOP jumper a the boom is his "End Stop" or "Emergency Stop” andi it filo safe meaning must it be shorted to GND for the board to work ertus Kruger ‘on 2015/06/14 at 1037 am said Hi The Stop is for “Emergency Stop’. (End-stops are dided into xy.2 connections). The EStop pins canbe connected toa "Normally Oper” sitch ‘tse t shouldbe lft unconnected. Whee the button Is pressed the System wit be rebooted Radu Negruty (on 2015/07/09 at 11:17 pm sai Hite, found a short mention about powering the shield and arduino board but not fully detailed. ‘Do need to power both, shield and arduno boards from 12V aris it enough to ower the aduino from USB and the shield froma 12Vtor higher) source? Bers Kroger ‘on 2015/07/18 at 7:23am sa HL Yes Powering the Arduino from USB andthe Shield from the #12 isthe way todot, Radu Negra on 2015/0712" at 11:28 pm sale: Great @ thas Hart (on 2015/07/15 t 12:36am saeHam fing to configure my fst ene with uno and ene shield v3. 1have a ‘uestion regarding the changes in gr 0, Do I just connect spindle to zendstop pins and zendstop to spindle enable pins? I the current through pins sufficient for |. 7amps spindle craw? [had planned to use a agitl relay. Also, Lhad planned to use igh and low endstops.IfTjst switch the pins, should wire the endstop swithes parallel to one anather external tothe shel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ert Kruger (on 2015/07/18 at 7:28am sac Hi es, hose are she only pins that swappe in V0.9. the pins cn only source 2 few mil amps and needs transistor to ver higher currents, onthe end stops, Keep ming that GRBs configured for atsays open end stops, ‘saae Das fn 2015/07/16 at 1:42 am sald Hi Bers, (On the board, | see a CoolEnconectr. What that means? Ista conector fora cooling fan? Bers Kroger ‘on 2015/07/18 at 7:21 am aie isan, the Cool isan Sv output pn that goes when the Coolant G-Code command is entered. The pn self cannot be used to run fan asthe output pins on Arcuinas eat saurce more than afew mill amps. Tis pn however «an be connected 0 relay to site ona fan Tobi .0n2015/07/23 at 1:05 am sad wondering how to connect any kind of “spindle enable” in grbl 0.8 on the ene shield? Ooi have to connect the sondle enable to Zx Endstop? ertus Kruger ‘0n 2015/07/30 a 851 pn sai ‘Yes you will have swap the sa pins ob: on 2015/08/14 at 5:22pm al: {ve done so, but now iam not able to contol my laser relay ith MIMS anymore ers Kruger (9 2015/08/16 at 522 pm sae:With the detaul PHN settngs enable you need to run the S ‘command to enable the spingle. From memory Sis 0.1000 wih $1000 being spina t 100% power. say ‘9n2015/08/08 at 739 pm sal Hi Bertus thankyou forthe information here 1am facing strange problem with my river. My Che shields Ver.03 and driver |'5A4988 set for Nemat? fr shapeoko2. 1am using al four diver slots. (One ofthe A4S88 driver doesnot allow the Arduino to turn on, f32 steps jumpers selected for tha peel slot .e when m01,m2 is inserted. but the same driver board work with 4 step setting Le 1 or 2 jumpers nly. So Thad to configure my ¥ axis parameter for 4 steps and rest ans for 32 steps leh samara, Ista fauly board or can Ido something to enable 32 steps fortis particular board Ihave only 4 civer boards andi takes longtime for shipment to reach my place for new drivers, Regards ertus Krag ‘0n 2015/08/06 a 7:58pm sai HiJay, The Pole M988 ever only supportup ta 1/16t micro stepping. hnaps2/w pool. conproducv1182 Aiden ‘9n2015/09/09 at 1:06 am sa: 1H 1100 am using Polls ORVE25crivers but m confused about which way round ‘hey are supposed to goin this CNC Shield V3 boar. ‘0 they go with the variable resister nearest the bottom ofthe boars (facing towards where it ays'CNC Shiela) ike every picture Ive seen ofthe AASB rivers inst, oF should the variable resister be facing the top of the board (facing ‘owards the Reset side ofthe board) - thls way woul match the schematic onthe Polols website, and Ihave seen some pictures ofthis layout Jus checking because I dont want 0 destray my overs! Bertus Kruger ‘0n 2015/08/10 at 2:32 pm sal: {creck the enable pins align onthe board andthe stepper driver. (EN) siden on 2015/09/77 3 2:19pm sae:(Ok thanks, yep got the steppers to move corey in eath erection. [Next question ifr the lit switches, si the Comme and Normally ‘open pins on the mireswitches that connect tothe end stops onthe CNC held V22 yes. Normally Open switches with shielded cable anda properly {rounded machine Vicente Chazard 0n2015/10/10 a 1208 am said: ‘rm complete noob in the Grb! word, but nat inthe Arcuine one, 1am tying to connect a CDROM step motor, but can't manage to have a smooth ‘mation Each ime Lend a command it moves bu with alot of hiccups instead of nice "222222222" noice, I get a“Br28¢128:12", and the mation f net clean. 1 assume I might need some jumper somewhere and/ar need to setup the rb with proper values. Can anyone assist me? ertus Kruger (0n 2015/10/28 a 5:47am sai ‘This sounds thet could be the stepper motor wires being hooked up wrong. have look at hip//olog orotoncer.comne/stepper-motorssiring-s-bipoa: steppermotor! Mave you swapped out the stepper drive as nother test? Chris Hardy (on 2015/11/08 39:09 pm sai 1, 1¥e managed to set up my mators with micostepping which was a dod, ‘new this though and im alle bc unsure how to wire up my optiealendstop. ‘The board has white pins forX ¥, 2, A positive and negative, then next to each of ‘these isa strip of black pins, Are the back ins alto ground? My endstops have Sy, signal and ground, do connect he Sy 0X, signal to X- and ground to any ofthe black pins? Or am I geting this wrong andthe X+/- pins are for the switch signals at opposite ends of the X axis? Sorry fm missing something really obvious here, thanks! ert Kruger (0n2015/11/15 3 857 am sae‘The shield uses GRALFemore) andthe standard way of Seting up endstops Is using normally open switches End-stops get activated ifthe get grounded. It sounds like you have some kindof active ene-stops i they need power. Rafael Carvalho on 2015/12/10 at 413 pm sai 1H Lam tying to use my megs 2560 ith grb wile alting my UNO to ave ‘manage tous the 30 version of the shield to spin the motors without GRBL, but wien try to use GRBL the motos hold position, receive an OK when i send 3 code to move one of the as, but no movement a alin the motors. am Using universal Geode sender, and t shows the axis moving nthe screen. Ils tried using the arduna IDE to send manual code with the same result, Do you know how omake twork? Thanks, Rafael Carvalho fn 2015/12/10 94:17 pm sais Forgot to tll that am using nema 23 Sy 1Awith A498, ert Kruger €0n 2015/12/16 a 5:20pm sal ‘The M4988 drivers needs atleast BV to work The Arsuino2S60 i not offically Supported butt could be that the steppe pins are not configured tobe the “ame as onthe Uno Pingback: Arduino shields ad stepper drivers jason Conway David Coetzee 10n2016/01/20 at 01 am sald Hi havea very strange problem on my router ene shel, i suspect my power supply after homing zat the opi bringit down ont the pcb and then geta hard lit alarm. fi back the bit off of the eb can run the outer as norma have put screwdriver in between my bit andthe pcb and get the alarm, the ‘nny thing is alsconnect the limits get this alarm, once the bit couches the pcb. ‘Has anyone has ths problem, am usinga cheap power supply which has no earth ‘connection the primary ‘The pes placed onto superwood and has no form of electrical connection, rts Krag ‘on 2016/01/20 at 7:24pm sai That does sound Ikea grounding issue. My nest lease ofthe CNC shel wil have signa ers that night help with this issue, wil be avaiable fom next month)bibee 109 2016/01/21 at 66 pm sae ‘wan touse th axis independently can uhelp me. how to do i Bertus Kruger on 2016/01/28 25st pm sid Te do that you wilhave to configure the ath socket jumpers tothe boom Setting Those pins have Arduino Pin numbers on them that can then be used to wit the custom sofware to run a Ath axis. RAL doesnot support at this 10n2016/01/29 at 9:06 pm sae Hi bic ofa strange problem, myx axis alvays moves inthe same direction, instructions fr both dretions result nit moving nthe same direction, Have vied ferent motors and they do the same. Swapped the deve to ancther axis andt behaves property. Any ideas? ‘Thanks fr your help ‘on 2016/01/20 a 10:57 am sai Ended up puting new atmega inc the ardino and that seems to have Bert Kruger on 2016/03/12 3t 453 pm sae We have created a Forum dedicated to this board, For more alscussions please do 5000 the Forum, htp/ferum protoneer.co.zhiewforum php ~ Previous Post,