We recently have x2 Simucube Serviced units we ordered as replacement for our sims,
We removed packaging and re installed the wires, moved over the old Drive IONI Boards onto the new boards.
1st thing we noticed that the old flashing light sequence would be the same on the new simucube boards and we even tried other IONI Boards with similar results.
This makes me think that the memory flash has stored the code and brings it into the new board, however when using a working Drive IONI device still does not appear in the simucube configator tool.
On Device Manager the board will show up but will read as STM Device in DFU Mode when connecting with the X3 USB port, I have flicked the too tiny switches and swapped to X4 Port to see if i can connect to granite devices configurator tool, but as I can not enable this on simucube firmware, we are not sure what to do.
From readying the wiki documents it has been mentioned that
“ Unused SimuCUBE from the factory will contain a special firmware that will place the device in DFU mode regardless of DIP switch setting. So another reason for persistent DFU mode may be that uploading of main firmware has failed, and the factory default FW is still inside.”
I believe we need to re-install the correct firmware as the device shipped is in DFU Mode and would like step by step instructions on how to do this if possible as both units have the same problem.
All Simucube 1 boards are shipped without firmware.
You will need to use ST Microelectronics’ supplid DfuSeDemo tool to install the Simucube-bootloader.dfu file into the microcontroller. Then Simucube configuration Tool will find it, and install the Simucube firmware.
Motor configuration is stored on the IONI servo drive, so when you have installed Simucube firmware, you will only need to run the motor configuration wizard by “use IONI settings as-is”.
You chose “UPLOAD” button, which read the device memory content to a file. You probably overwrote the Simucube-bootloader.dfu file with the DFU mode thing now. Please unzip a fresh copy of that file from the software package and re-read the instructions.
Hint: in the instructions it clearly says that you must use the Upgrade button, on the right.
What happens if you click “enable ioni usb configuration” and connect to the servo drive via Granity and the other USB port? The status information on the last tab would be of interest.
