Printrbot Simple Pro power problem

[foster]

I’ve been trying to diagnose a problem with my printer and I’ve narrowed it down to a power problem.
I’m getting power into the machine, but the g2 board isn’t getting power.
I thought that the board was dead, and got a replacement board. When that didn’t work, but I tried plugging into the auxiliary power, near where the barrel port plugs in. Everything works if I plug into the auxiliary power! Which is great, but seems like I shouldn’t be relying on that.

Should I just plug I there? Or is that a bad idea (I suspect it is)?
Is this a problem that anyone else has run into that has a known fix?

I’ve been poking around with my multimeter and I can detect voltage at points near beginning of the power flow, but not where the power comes out to go to the g2 board.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks.





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[musk]

Inside the Pro there's a separate "powrboard" which is fuse-protected and only sends power to the G2 when a relay has been activated. When the LCD screen is connected, it closes a relay and then the powrboard sends power to the G2. There are two ways to bypass this. If you want to eliminate the LCD screen, there are a couple pins you can jump to make the relays automatically close. You could also just plug a 6-pin ATX cable directly into the G2 and ignore the powrboard completely.

[foster]

I don’t use the screen, so bypassing it would be fine. Do you know where to put the jumpers or where I can find the info?



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[novice]

Watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_ipknA8yo of Brook last week I could have swore he stated information regarding that jumper could be found on Carl's website https://ubishotends.com/simple-pro-information/, which seems to direct one to https://github.com/abdrumm/printrbot-docs. If it's in this pdf https://github.com/abdrumm/printrbot-docs/blob/master/G2-Board%20documentation.pdf ,I have yet to find it, but it's supposed to be there. Or is this not the same jumper?

[musk]

Here's the cleanest way to jump.
Do yourself a favor and mark the black box with something permanent for future reference if the jumper ever comes off.