Finishing up my degree has taken up the last couple of months, so progress has been pretty slow up to now.

I had the machine roughly wired up to test everything before spending the time making it look tidy, the machine was working great and ran through some programs with no problems. It needed a few tweaks to the settings to get the dimensional positions a little closer but I didn't want to spend too much time on that until it was together for the final time.

Since re wiring it I'm having a nightmare! I managed to get the transformer wiring wrong on the primary coil, so when I fired that up to check the DC voltage output the cabinet filled with some lovely black smoke from the braking circuit. luckily I had unplugged everything else at this point so I didn't cause too much damage (hopefully).
I didn't stick around to check the actual voltage that was being output from it but could this have potential caused damage to the bridge rectifier and capacitor?

I re wired the transformer and checked the voltage output and its back to what I was expecting, but since wiring the drivers and motors back up I'm having power issues with all three drivers when I try to tune them. They all seem to get an voltage error and go into error mode..
I don't know at this point if it's power supply to the drives that's the issue or if its referring to the power to the motors.. need to do a bit of reading on the error codes.


I also managed to snap the silly little pins the USB connection boards plugs into on one of the drives so that's going to need replacing/repairing!

So all in all I've taken a few steps back at the moment!