Complete Novice, please help!
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Hi All,
Can someone give me a step-by-step, absolute novice's guide to turning on/connecting my Fisher Delta to my laptop? I'm working with a macbook pro.I inherited the machine from a friend of my parents. I know the machine is functional as I was given a full demo when I picked it up, but since getting it home I cannot make any sort of link to my laptop, and I can't actually tell if the machine has turned on (I was so excited when I got it that I forgot to listen out for what 'on' sounds like). The fan doesn't turn on and the nozzle doesnt heat up. The power pack is registering power and the lights in the sockets turn on, but am I missing something as simple as a switch on the machine itself?
I would be so, so appreciative if anybody could walk me through in absolute baby steps. I took a lot of notes on everything that happened after start up, but the start up in the demo was so quick and smooth that it didnt seem more complex than connecting all the wires (power, internet, connection to laptop) and opening up reprapfisher. My laptop cannot locate the machine and as I say, I dont think it's even turned on. In my router's admin page, it doesn't even register that there's an ethernet connection active.
Here's to hoping someone here can help me out!
Thank you! -
Can you see the control board? There should be some LEDs illuminating on it near one edge of the board, if power is on.
The manual for the machine is here, starting at the commissioning section:
https://reprapltd.com/documentation/fisher-build-instructions/commissioning/And the Duet 2 Maestro control board here:
https://reprapltd.com/documentation/fisher-build-instructions/commissioning/Does it have an SD card in the card slot? I believe it needs the correct one in for the board to start up properly, but I've no experience with Duet 2 boards.
