Did I destory a motor? (Z-Axis issues)

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@Mrjimo

I installed it and the encoders seemed to work properly.

So you had good and changing encoder values on the controls tab?

Picture of controls tab

@Mrjimo

I would tell it to move up or down and it would twitch 3 times

You mean it stalled/blocked even when moving downwards? Sounds more like a misfunction on the motor driver/encoder to me if that assumption is right.

@Mrjimo

Did I destroy the motor? I’ve tried unplugging/replugging it, and it still returns -1.

I’d say its not possible to destroy a motor/encoder that way. You could try to plug the encoder cable inside the electronics box into f.e. the Y-axis connector and see if you can read encoder values there.