Just received my LongMill 30x30 with SLB. I am having an issue with the estop however.
The lights on the estop never come on, neither the 3 button lights or the arrows. I can lock and twist to unlock which mechanically it appears to work but no change in that status.
The SLB the HALT light always is on.
When I press the 3 buttons their corresponding amber light on the SLB flashes.
on the gsender it always indicats that the machine is locked. I tried unplugging and replugging both sides, did a cable tug on the wires and they all seem secure.
Welcome to the forum. There have been a few topics around the same problem and there even is a troubleshoot section dedicated on this issue.
I personaly think it’s mostly a bad connection between the board and the estop contraption, bei g it bad solderings on the connector or bad wiring between the pairing connectors.
In this case it sounds like the soldering/wires conducting via the actual estop switch are the culprit. You can check if the problem is on pcb or on the switch bij shorting pin 7 to pin 7 (E-stop/E-stop) on the connector. If shorting these two pins on tne connector results in your slb powering up, check the wiring of those two pins.
If this doesnt work you can try and short the two pins on the board specific for troubleshooting an estop problem.
The estop overide mentioned in the trouble shoot page is found behind the power input.
if i short out the estop pins as describedin steo 4 the machine comes to life but it completly nullifies the estop. So that appears to narrow it down some, just not sure where
Well, that is a good result. I personaly would now put a microscope on the wires of the estop at pin 6 and 7. Get them out of their seating and inspect them closely, it might be that they are not stripped.
I don’t have an estop, so cannot be sure how the wiring on the estop is but it looks like a rj45 connector, so there is not much you can do there.
If you cannot get the estop to work reattaching the estop wires, it’s time to get a ticket to replace it. You can revert to this topic. Itll give the tech enough info to work with.
You can open a ticket at the co tact form below.
That however will stall your progress and that aint fun at all.
So to keep on going, you hop on over to the carton box you are storing your trusty old LongBoard and pick up the old E-stop button. Take off the green connector at the end of the wires and store it in the estop connector of your longboard.
Hop back to the altmill, open up the cover of the slb, and pick up a connector you don’t use, (I would pick a 2pin one)
Can you unplug the E-stop from the cable and open up the E-stop from the 3 screws on the bottom? Check if the wiring inside is loose and reconnect them if needed. Then hook it up again and try it out
I did that, and unplugged the wiring harness from the e-stop. I then completed the circuit on the two wires leading to the e-stop button with no success.
To use your machine before the new E-stop arrives you can basically use any toggle switch with the SLB if you can find a way to securely wire it up. The switch looks to only have 24v 1.2mA going through it.
Compared to the one on the Longboard which has all the power to the machine going through it.
