Motors are weak.

Hello,

I started to wire my motors up and wanted to do a quick test. But I ended up finding out that my motors seem to be weak. I have adjusted the trim pots on the pololu drives and it helps a little bit, but I cant turn up enough to drive an axis because the motors start to click.

Did I just buy weak motors or could there be something more going on?

Is my power supply weak? I only I have an LCD and a encoder hooked up.

If anyone has any suggestion that would great.

Thank you,

Cameron

I would suggest verifying that the motors are wired correctly to the RAMPS board or whatever driver board you're using. I experienced similar behavior from my motors (clicking rather than movement regardless of trimpot setting) until I finally wired them properly.

They should be fine. If you try to move them too quickly they have little to no torque. Also what Nick101 said is possible.

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Hello,

Thanks for the replies! Well this is kind of embarrassing, but I might as well put the solution just in case someone has this "problem" too. The gears ended up not being tightened enough so they were slipping.

Thanks again,

Cameron