TOS-KURIM CNC Upgrade

[JimJam]

I just reverted the one axis back to how I had it set up before, I cut the CAT5 extended cable from the encoder back to the factory wiring, and used a premade ethernet cable from line driver to drivers and its working again!

I also tried the premade cable with the extended encoder cable which didn't work. so it would appear it didn't like the cat5 cable I added on.... I checked continuity from the encoder to the end of the extended piece and everything seemed ok. That said I don't know enough about electronics or the workings of an encoder, could I have been getting a false reading due to internal components being linked? ( I didn't unsolder the terminations at the encoder when testing)

I soldered and heat shrinked the individual cables as well as around all of them, so I shouldn't have been getting any kind of short where I joined it....