Thankyou very much obewan. Will give that a go once I get back home. Wrote up my query late last night after a long tinkering/researching session and I've got a policy with long term projects of always trying to finish on a win, makes coming back to them the next day much easier. When the z motors started rotating that was it for the night. I don't currently have the motors homing, am just tryby davearmstrong - Prusa i3 and variants
And true to form, I'm a massive noob. Issue is solved, apologies to anyone who wasted their time reading above. For anyone having the same issue, try having a look at your z axis steps per unit. Everywhere I read would have the z axis rate about 5 times higher than the x or y. After reading what I'd written above about how the x axis would fling itself around when plugged into the Z, I thoughtby davearmstrong - Prusa i3 and variants
Hi All and sorry in advance for what will probably be an idiot noob question. I'm having an issue with my Z axis steppers buzzing but not moving. New to the 3d printing game, this was a generic kit from china, got it up and running, a few successful prints before I cracked it at the electronics and replaced them with a RAMPS 1.4 setup running marlin. Have been tinkering with it on and off forby davearmstrong - Prusa i3 and variants