Hey, I had one loose wire in the Y axis cable for a while and was getting it to operate. Now seems another is out and pulled them all out to rewire. Cannot open tabs to insert 8 wires in the connector.
Need some input and assistance, other wise need a new motor cable.
Hey Nbase,
It would be helpfull if, as the doctor would say, please state the nature of your setup.
Like, what machine are you using, what controller and on what side cables came lose.
Maybe add a picture or two to get accross the precise nature of your problem might help homing in on a solution?
Oh and while you’re at it… what is that beautifull car your showing off in your profile picture?
Thanks for the repsonse and compliment. I am having all sorts of problems lately as a new user. I sent the company and emailed for a replacement cable. I own a Altmill and I am using G sender as well as Vectric Pro. I tore the wires out trying to re attach some loose wires on the Y axis rear left. I think I also blew my new spindle as it is not working. Heard a large pop and some burning smell. Not operable. Not sure why that happened. Either way one thing at a time. Tried getting the small wires back in the connector. There are eight. Had to strip and reaattach. Not the easiest thing.
Ah yes, they can be a bleep to get in. I bet you figured out that the orange part can be pushed in to open up the connector to have it a bit more easy to get the wire in.
Since I don’t have a atlmill, I don’t know if the motor wires are solid or strained cores. If they are solid, it’s a bit more easy to restrip and reconnect, if they are strained I guess the wire ends was crimped.
The first thing to do after you wrote down how the wires were seated colorwise, removing them using the orange spring release thingy, is remove all wires. To make sure the connector is in functioning order you check all wire entrys if they theres is no broken wires stuck. Look inside every seat while pressing the spring release to make sure everything looks good and is clean.
Getting a solid core to slide into the connector with little or no room to spare between the wires and cable-mantle can be hell, trying it with a strained one will leave you screaming.
Stripping away some mantle to get longer wires to work with may help here. I usually use a utility knife. To prevent me from cutting into the wires, I press the knife slightly against the cable and roll the cable over the knifes edge (not rotating on one spot) this gives you more co trole on how deep you cut. After a revolution I bend the cable to see if the isolation is cut enough and if it’s possible to have it rip some more. Pulling the piece I need to come off can help to not needing to cut all the way through the mantle. You don’t want to cut into the wires, leaving you potentialy with all kinds of future problems that can be pretty difficult to home into.
Anyhoo, now you have nice long single wires with enough space to allign straight to the connector, even when it’s the llast one, without pulling onto earlier connected ones.
Stripping a wire, either solid or strained, comes with its own chalanges. Here too it is essential to only take away the isolator and not to dammage the core. This is especialy essential with solid core wires for a damaged one will break due to long term vibration, at the damaged point. It might take a year or twenty, but it will break right there.
I either strip using a natural tool that came with my human vessel, a slith between my front teeth, or I use a lighter to melt the tip of the wire and strip the wire while the plastic is still molten using my thumb nail and any finger on the same hand that’s not blistered yet.
With the solid core wires stripped, you can now allign a wire to the connector while pressing the corresponding orange spring thingy with either a tooth pick, a special tool we don’t have or a small clock workers flat screw driver.
Strained wires may need some more attention. To have it more easy strained wires need a crimp sleave to work best with these kind of connectors, but most of us don’t have the tools to do this. We might be tempted to add some solder to get the same result, a hardened wire, but over time that might turn out to be not the best solution. Solder tends to deform under pressure leaving you with connections that can “stutter” and this is when your lucky enough to not have badly activated flux eating away on the connector’s conductors. Best to avoid soldering wire tips, unless it’s a temp solution.
If you cannot sleave the straines you best twist them together, between fingers that you managed to not burn to a crisp while stripping wires and have them as straight as possible. Inserting it while pressing the orange releaser with care, making sure all strains insert into the connector and are not deflected somewhere. After releasing the orange, tug the wire to make sure it’s seated firmly.
Thanks for the information, managed to patiently get all the wires in. Started working in the Y axis. Thanks for the information. Now if I could only get spindle to work. Think i blew it. Heard a large pop and stopped working. Might need a new one. Thanks again.