Quote Originally Posted by dazp1976 View Post
Where does he say that?.
The op has no mention of getting any movement at all. Only controller fan. All he gets is power to them and motor locking, then power going off when booted.
Slip of the keyboard, it should have read " he says they drop holding torque and WON'T spin when the controller starts up" I wasn't quoting him either.!

Quote Originally Posted by A_Camera View Post
That is not the way my CNC works. When the driver is enabled there is a holding torque. When it is disabled the holding torque is lost and I can rotate the motors with my hand. This is the way I want it to work.
Depends on the drives, some do, some don't, some can be configured via software to work either way.
The most common config is the opposite of yours where the motors instantly powered up when power is applied to the drives and drop the holding torque when the enable pin is set. Again this can be inverted on the drive or thru software depending on the drive. This is why the enable pin can be left unwired on most drives.