Originally Posted by
capth00k
Just used a 9v battery to test the output of the 'Z' axis cable. Every color was fine except for green on the harness (4 wires) ; so I jumped that wire from controller to motor and now its working fine. Any idea why the cable would kick the bucket so soon? There's only a total of maybe 10 hours on this machine, and I cannot find any gouges / breaks in the cable... But, needless to say - it IS a bad Z cable which was causing my intermittent up / down problem on the Z axis.