Hi guys!
First of all a little disclaimer: I am by no means well educated in terms of electronics and programming etc. However during the last year I spent a lot of time building a camera robot. Therefore my knowledge is not even nearly as good as it should be when building such machines. Please be patient with my silly questions
I have a pretty strange problem with my Teensy 3.6. I use it to control my 3 axis camera slider. I use 3 NEMA 17 motors which are driven by TMC2130 and controlled via a Software called PureMoCo (https://www.puremoco.com/pages/firmware.php).
I designed and ordered myself a small little PCB to make the controller as compact as possible. It worked fine for pretty much half a year. However one day it just quit working and I am not able to track the problem down.
The teensy does not boot up properly and I am not able to connect it to my tablet via Bluetooth. The only strange things I noticed are:
On the Teensy there is a small little resistor near the USB port. It gets really hot after 5 seconds.
The LED on the teensy used to turned on solid whenever the slider was working. But after a few times using the slider it stopped working or blinked strangely. However it did not affect the usability of the slider. I guess But I thought it was worth mentioning.
I am not able to connect the teensy to a computer. I think it is dead... It also seems strange to me that the controller worked for half a year and out of nowhere its dead now. I checked all the connections of the PCB trails and there is no shortage. I could not find any damage on the board. The voltage supply is also correct. I cut the VIN Pads apart and used two diodes to properly power it. I have attached a pretty BASIC wiring diagram of my circuit as well as some pictures. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/chb3cwipc8fkac7/AAA5XvSvaXH2AmU3Yo9iqdpGa?dl=0 (I could not figure out how to attatch the pics to the thread. It always said "failed to upload" sorry!)
What could be the reason for my problem? Why does the resistor get so hot, even when powering it via USB? I have already bought a new Teensy yet I haven’t installed it since I don’t want to destroy another one
First of all a little disclaimer: I am by no means well educated in terms of electronics and programming etc. However during the last year I spent a lot of time building a camera robot. Therefore my knowledge is not even nearly as good as it should be when building such machines. Please be patient with my silly questions
I have a pretty strange problem with my Teensy 3.6. I use it to control my 3 axis camera slider. I use 3 NEMA 17 motors which are driven by TMC2130 and controlled via a Software called PureMoCo (https://www.puremoco.com/pages/firmware.php).
I designed and ordered myself a small little PCB to make the controller as compact as possible. It worked fine for pretty much half a year. However one day it just quit working and I am not able to track the problem down.
The teensy does not boot up properly and I am not able to connect it to my tablet via Bluetooth. The only strange things I noticed are:
On the Teensy there is a small little resistor near the USB port. It gets really hot after 5 seconds.
The LED on the teensy used to turned on solid whenever the slider was working. But after a few times using the slider it stopped working or blinked strangely. However it did not affect the usability of the slider. I guess But I thought it was worth mentioning.
I am not able to connect the teensy to a computer. I think it is dead... It also seems strange to me that the controller worked for half a year and out of nowhere its dead now. I checked all the connections of the PCB trails and there is no shortage. I could not find any damage on the board. The voltage supply is also correct. I cut the VIN Pads apart and used two diodes to properly power it. I have attached a pretty BASIC wiring diagram of my circuit as well as some pictures. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/chb3cwipc8fkac7/AAA5XvSvaXH2AmU3Yo9iqdpGa?dl=0 (I could not figure out how to attatch the pics to the thread. It always said "failed to upload" sorry!)
What could be the reason for my problem? Why does the resistor get so hot, even when powering it via USB? I have already bought a new Teensy yet I haven’t installed it since I don’t want to destroy another one