Explosion!

Post date: Jun 28, 2014 10:51:08 PM

My stepper driver board's Y axis had a little issue... it exploded:

I can't say I even know what went wrong (I wasn't even milling at the time- just testing out using a BeagleBone Black to drive the signals). My steppers seem OK, though, so I'm assuming that it's a case of "buy cheap stuff, and it'll blow up". I'm sure that's a thing. In any case, I've got some Gecko Drives that I'm getting installed (pictures... sometime). Hopefully they'll be overall better. And not explode.