Y Stepper turns when spindle is on

[RichR]

Plugging into a long extension from another room and the problem disappears

[Doddy]

Plugging into a long extension from another room and the problem disappears

A long extension simply helps to attenuate high frequency energy - the same can be had with a filtered inlet (e.g. IEC chassis filtered plug), and/or possibly including ferrites on the various cables. But the former means modifications to the control box. You can get filtered extensions that might help, but I'd trust the IEC filter first. To be fair, the usual photos of the control box innards tend to show large filters as part of the design.

What's interesting from your descriptions of the problem is that this sounds to be a logic-level issue, either the BoB interface or the stepper / opto interfaces. This is either a poorly design board, really poor PSU, or some fault on board (there shouldn't be any substantial influence from the spindle). One thing to consider is that the spindle under load is likely to produce more EM noise than unloaded.

[magicniner]

A long extension simply helps to attenuate high frequency energy - the same can be had with a filtered inlet .

But the test I suggested with a long extension is free, as is continuing to use it if you can't find a filter that suits your budget :D

What's interesting from your descriptions of the problem is that this sounds to be a logic-level issue, either the BoB interface or the stepper / opto interfaces. This is either a poorly design board, really poor PSU, or some fault on board (there shouldn't be any substantial influence from the spindle). One thing to consider is that the spindle under load is likely to produce more EM noise than unloaded.

Is there an echo in here? ;-)

[Doddy]

This forum is getting silly.

MN: I wasn't replying to you - instead I was building on the body of evidence that the OP was reporting. Yes, you provided some advice to help localise the possible problem, the OP tested, and reported back, and I provided a conclusion. What's the issue? As far as the "echo" - nothing there was concluded by any statement from yourself.

Forget it.

[RichR]

Problem solved
There was no safety earth on the chassis so after adding that and an EMI filter all is well.
So now I can get on with learning how to use it at last