Steppers not responding to jog

[Anonymous]

Hi!

I’m having some issues with my steppers not responding to jog functions or the program at all. Any help would be much appreciated!! So far, I’ve:
– Read much of the forums, made sure my port is set on 60×1
– Done the stepper test, works well.

Here are my specs and a pic of my build.

– Arduino Uno
– Adafruit Motor Shield
– Nema 17 size 12V 350mA, 200 steps.

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated!

[Anonymous]

A few other details I missed:
– It does connect to the software
– My power adapter is 12V, 1000mA

[Dan]

Adafruit Motor Shield 2 is not officially supported. I can’t think of any reason off the top of my head why it wouldn’t work.

Do you get any jog at all? Can you raise/lower the servo?

[Anonymous]

Hi Dan! I don’t seem to get any jog but one of the motors does get hot when it’s idling connected to the program. I haven’t connected the servo as yet. Should I look at sourcing a V1 shield do you think?

[Dan]

Hi Stephanie, sorry for the delay. Motors should get hot because current is flowing through the coils.
if it doesn’t then it’s probably not connected. V1 has better support than V2.

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