Testing a Stepper Motor from a live image

Thanks I figured ist out had to set up the network manually.
I can ping the Board, and also Linuxcnc starts corrrectly.

But still there is a problem I can not jog.
If I am pressing the buttons of any axle the numbers change but the stepper motors dont move.

What could be missing?
Is there something wrong with the config file, or
do I first need to flush the firmware in my mesa board?

Unfortunateley that did not solve the Problem.
I measured and found that the correct signals come out of the Mesa board.
If I Press x- it gets 5v on the Direction pin.
On the Pulse pin I also get a voltage that depends on the Settings for jogging speed.

So basically there must be something wrong with the Connectors for to the Stepper drivers.

I put
5+ on enable +
And Ground on the enable -

Plus I connected all the Pulse and Direction pins.
The positive and the negative ones.

Is this Correct?

Where can I find good info about connecting a steper driver to a Mesa 7i76e Board?

Just had a good look at the stepper drivers manual.
I thought the enable pins turn the drive on and off.

In a sense yes but just the opposite way around.
So basically if you Power the enable pins it overrides all the other signals from the Mesa board.

Maybe it is time for a good laugh.

I will disconnecct those two wires, and see what happens.

That arrangement seems to mostly be the norm for most stepper drives. (Our very old and very USA made uni-polar drives from Anaheim Automation also follow that convention.) And if you think about it an enable switch for a step motor is rather pointless anyway. But there are rare occasions where a disable might be useful.

tommylight wrote:

Creative25 wrote:

Maybe it is time for a good laugh.

Another Chinese gift to the world, having the enable active by default !
Strangely it caught on.....

I thought was a sneaky trick to waste hours of ones time on your first CNC build....