Stuck after repetier upload

[ThatDirectorGuy]

Hi all.. Rostock Max v2
Uploading the repetier the screen stays as two bars.
The cheapskates keep going up a little and down a little as if they searching for the end points. Over and over. An endless loop.
I am also doing this through OSX

Any help much appreciated. I am going to retrace my steps as the instructions say..

[ThatDirectorGuy]

I have retraced my steps as far back as clearing the eprom out to no avail still caught in this loop. I reached out to support but haven't heard from them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[gestalt73]

Hey ThatDirectorGuy,

I'm happy to help, but I'm a little unclear on exactly what you're trying to do.

Are you saying that you've tried compiled and uploaded 0.91 Repetier firmware into the RAMBO via the Arduino IDE, and the upload never completes?

Or you're trying to upload a file to the SDCard, and it never completes? (it's terribly slow to do that over the usb cable, best to transfer the file using a reader)

Or you're attempting to start a print job, and you're seeing the above symptoms?

Alan

[ThatDirectorGuy]

Alan,

Tried compiled and uploaded 0.91 Repetier firmware into the RAMBO via the Arduino IDE, and the upload never completes.

I am on page 201 of the instruction manual (it says if it doesn't work contact support which I have)
Uploading the Repetier firmware into the RAMBO via the Arduino IDE the screen stays as two bars.
The cheapskates keep going up a little and down a little as if they searching for the end points. Over and over. It just continues to do that an endless loop.
I am also doing this through OSX

I retraced my steps and erased the eprom again same issue.
What com port do you select with osx? I have two choices and I have tried them both
dev tty usbmodem1421
and
dev cu usbmodem1421

[ThatDirectorGuy]

Using dev tty usbmodem1421
Checked the cables
Checked the solder especially on the LCD interface board
Put in an email to support waiting to hear back from them.

[lordbinky]

The cheapskates keep going up a little and down a little as if they searching for the end points. Over and over. It just continues to do that an endless loop.

Check your motor wiring, the motors should just travel in one direction until they hit an endstop. That's why you have your finger on the power button the first time, when you are hoping that direction is the same as where the endstop is.

Also there are some gcode commands you can use to check the endstop states, just google gcode endstop , and you can check that each one is working before correctly before you send the cheapskates into them.

[ThatDirectorGuy]

The cheapskates aren't going up and down any more but two bars on the lcd still

[lordbinky]

If this is your first time getting the LCD going, try swapping the ribbon cables on the adapter. I was trying to be really carfull when I first set it up to get it right and I still got them backwards.