Troubleshooting electronic components

[mdmornin]

Hello there, I was wondering if anyone had photos on hand of how their shields + big easy driver are connected.

I followed the wiring diagram to the best of my knowledge but have yet to have a successful spin with the motor and have yet to have any voltage pass through the Ch1, Ch2, ... ChN pads. I checked the motor with an LED diode and it's still outputting enough to light those up. I then traced the signal from the Arduino terminal and saw that it made it to the Big Easy Driver but did not pass the signal back down, that I'm aware of, to the shield and out the coil terminals.

I checked the optics out on a spare, cleared brain and everything is working there, just need to make it spin now. Additionally, would love to see how others have wired their boards up so I can have some inspiration as to how to clean my wiring up.

Thanks again for the design and am looking forward to finishing the project up.

[jsiegle]

Here are some images of the system we have at the Allen Institute. Our version uses the Pololu Tic T825 motor driver, rather than the SparkFun Big Easy, so it's not quite equivalent to what you're doing. But let me know if there are any other pictures that would be helpful!