The kit is great and went together in a few hours, as expected. There wasn't nearly as much assembly as I anticipated. The wiring harnesses having been made up already, it's pretty straightforward to assemble. I think the hardest part was routing the cables nicely.
Having gotten all that together, I moved on to the Quick Start App (which was hard to find; the URLs in the assembly guide don't work)... and I can't connect.
I've tested, not in this order:
- 2 different Mac laptops (same failure modes on both)
- USB cable on an Arduino (the cable is fine)
- power supply seems to work (generates 24v on all 3 lines)
- RAMBo has no active LEDs when power is applied
- no fans kick in, no locking of motors, no motion of any kind, no sign of life
- all 3 fuses are fine; I pulled the 15A and tested + inspected, the other two I was able to test in place on the board
- in an arduino serial monitor I can't get anything from the RAMBo, I've tried several common speeds (9600 & 115200, plus a few on the high end)
- reseating power, reseating SD, etc
Is this a DOA RAMBo? I don't want to do any invasive testing before I talk to support, but I think it'll be 2 days before support comes online, and I worry that it'll be another week if they decide it's a dead board.
Any other ideas for what to test, or how to confirm whether it's working (e.g. I have 2 bad computer setups) or failed?
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