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3D Touch / BL Touch not working

Posted by RepMike 
3D Touch / BL Touch not working
October 06, 2017 04:52AM
Hello, I've got a Ramps 1.4 Board on which I'm trying to get the 3D touch sensor from Geeetech running. It does nothing. Can you help me?
Here is my Configuration.h: [pastebin.com]

If I manually push the pin up, the red LED lights up, manually down: LED off. I have connected 5V to VCC by a jumper and I've connected the cables as in the documentation, I am sure that the cables are as they are supposed to be, so switched cables/colors. There was no shorting cables, so everything should be intact.

If I issue the test commands like M280 P0 S120 or M280 P0 S90 or M280 P0 S10 or M280 P0 S160, there is absolutely no reaction.

While trying the deploy/stow commands, I made sure that I'm over Z_CLEARANCE_DEPLOY_PROBE.
Marlin Version 1.1.4.

I would be grateful for any hint.
Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working
October 06, 2017 07:10AM
Please post a clear picture of the ramps and where you plugged the wires in.... (just have to check)

the code you posted has "#define Z_SERVO_ANGLES {90,10} // Z Axis Extend and Retract angles" but the documents say 10,90
your code also says #define NUM_SERVOS 3 where as the docs say #define NUM_SERVOS 1


Other than that Look good.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2017 07:15AM by Dust.
Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working
October 06, 2017 02:52PM
Thank you for your reply and for taking your time to look through Configuration.h.
Here's the relevant parts on the Board:

I hope it's fine that I only took a picture of those parts, the rest is just a ball of cable wool. smiling smiley
I took Dupont Wires of the same color in order to extend the wires of the sensor and I've measured the continuity of the current from all connector ends.

The 10,90 / 90,10 results from trying all alternatives, I've tried 10,90 before without success.
I've also tried Servos 1 instead of 3, because in a Forum someone mentioned that it only worked with a 3, which seemed strange to me as well, but hey, when it's stormy on the high seas, any port is welcome.

(Sorry if people see me crossposting, the moderator in the respective Geeetech forum took his time to approve my posting so I thought he wouldn't do so and hence I posted here, but in the end he did approve. I know it sometimes annoys people, but it was in good faith that my post wouldn't go through.)
Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working
November 05, 2017 03:13PM
I gave up on this sensor (3D Touch / BL Touch) as I couldn't get any solution to my problems with this sensor. I've replaced it by a capacitive sensor (LJC 18A3 B-Z/BY) which I got for around 4-5€ at aliexpress. I am highly impressed how easy it was to install and what consistant and brillant results I get with ABL after correctly adjusting the sensor and after finding the right z offset. It saves me so much time, doing the bed levelling manually was a pain in the neck, this upgrade is definitely worth it. For connecting the capacitive sensor to the Ramps Board, I needed to step the 12V on the signal line down to 5V and I did that by using a simple voltage regulator LM7805, which is available for very low money (got mine on ebay).
Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working
November 06, 2017 05:05PM
I know you have given up on this, but I thought I would share. I just had a very similar battle with the 3DTouch not poweing on or responding to commands, and after a while I realized that my cheap RAMPS board wasn't delivering 5v to the servo pins
Re: 3D Touch / BL Touch not working
June 08, 2018 07:51PM
+1

Thanks for posting this - I had almost given up on my 3DTouch until I cam across your posting and checked the 5V (in my defence, there was a dim blue LED light, so I never thought of a power problem).
Getting 5V from aux-1 solved the problem.
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