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        <title>3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
        <description> Hello, I&#039;ve got a Ramps 1.4 Board on which I&#039;m trying to get the 3D touch sensor from Geeetech running. It does nothing. Can you help me?
Here is my Configuration.h: [pastebin.com]

If I manually push the pin up, the red LED lights up, manually down: LED off. I have connected 5V to VCC by a jumper and I&#039;ve connected the cables as in the documentation, I am sure that the cables are as they are supposed to be, so switched cables/colors. There was no shorting cables, so everything should be intact.

If I issue the test commands like M280 P0 S120  or   M280 P0 S90 or M280 P0 S10    or   M280 P0 S160, there is absolutely no reaction.

While trying the deploy/stow commands, I made sure that I&#039;m over Z_CLEARANCE_DEPLOY_PROBE.
Marlin Version 1.1.4.

I would be grateful for any hint.</description>
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            <title>Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,791350,824982#msg-824982</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ +1<br />
<br />
Thanks for posting this - I had almost given up on my 3DTouch until I cam across your posting and checked the 5V (in my defence, there was a dim blue LED light, so I never thought of a power problem).<br />
Getting 5V from aux-1 solved the problem.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ChrisHerman</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:51:56 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,791350,795315#msg-795315</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I know you have given up on this, but I thought I would share. I just had a very similar battle with the 3DTouch not poweing on or responding to commands, and after a while I realized that my cheap RAMPS board wasn't delivering 5v to the servo pins]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Pheneeny</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:05:10 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,791350,795159#msg-795159</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I gave up on this sensor (3D Touch / BL Touch) as I couldn't get any solution to my problems with this sensor. I've replaced it by a capacitive sensor (LJC 18A3 B-Z/BY) which I got for around 4-5€ at aliexpress. I am highly impressed how easy it was to install and what consistant and brillant results I get with ABL after correctly adjusting the sensor and after finding the right z offset. It saves me so much time, doing the bed levelling manually was a pain in the neck, this upgrade is definitely worth it. For connecting the capacitive sensor to the Ramps Board, I needed to step the 12V on the signal line down to 5V and I did that by using a simple voltage regulator LM7805, which is available for very low money (got mine on ebay).]]></description>
            <dc:creator>RepMike</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:13:29 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,791350,791405#msg-791405</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Thank you for your reply and for taking your time to look through Configuration.h.<br />
Here's the relevant parts on the Board:<br />
[attachment 98643 IMG_1892.JPG][attachment 98644 IMG_1893.JPG]<br />
I hope it's fine that I only took a picture of those parts, the rest is just  a ball of cable wool. :)<br />
I took Dupont Wires of the same color in order to extend the wires of the sensor and I've measured the continuity of the current from all connector ends. <br />
<br />
The 10,90 / 90,10 results from trying all alternatives, I've tried 10,90 before without success. <br />
I've also tried Servos 1 instead of 3, because in a Forum someone mentioned that it only worked with a 3, which seemed strange to me as well, but hey, when it's stormy on the high seas, any port is welcome. <br />
<br />
(Sorry if people see me crossposting, the moderator in the respective Geeetech forum took his time to approve my posting so I thought he wouldn't do so and hence I posted here, but in the end he did approve. I know it sometimes annoys people, but it was in good faith that my post wouldn't go through.)]]></description>
            <dc:creator>RepMike</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:52:54 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,791350,791363#msg-791363</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Please post a clear picture of the ramps and where you plugged the wires in....    (just have to check)<br />
<br />
the code you posted has "#define Z_SERVO_ANGLES {90,10} // Z Axis Extend and Retract angles"  but the documents say 10,90<br />
your code also says  #define NUM_SERVOS 3   where as the docs say #define NUM_SERVOS 1<br />
<br />
<br />
Other than that Look good.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Dust</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 07:10:45 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>3D Touch / BL Touch not working</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,791350,791350#msg-791350</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Hello, I've got a Ramps 1.4 Board on which I'm trying to get the 3D touch sensor from Geeetech running. It does nothing. Can you help me?<br />
Here is my Configuration.h: [<a href="https://pastebin.com/aNdTdgtr" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">pastebin.com</a>]<br />
<br />
If I manually push the pin up, the red LED lights up, manually down: LED off. I have connected 5V to VCC by a jumper and I've connected the cables as in the documentation, I am sure that the cables are as they are supposed to be, so switched cables/colors. There was no shorting cables, so everything should be intact.<br />
<br />
If I issue the test commands like M280 P0 S120  or   M280 P0 S90 or M280 P0 S10    or   M280 P0 S160, there is absolutely no reaction.<br />
<br />
While trying the deploy/stow commands, I made sure that I'm over Z_CLEARANCE_DEPLOY_PROBE.<br />
Marlin Version 1.1.4.<br />
<br />
I would be grateful for any hint.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>RepMike</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2017 04:52:45 -0400</pubDate>
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