@cosmowave It wouldn't be fair to omit the unsung heroes like @T3P3Tony and other members of the Duet "family". So cheers also to Tony et al.

@sebkritikel and to add insult to injury, wire order and colors are depending on the lot you get.

@tierod sorry, forgot, its a duet2 using version 3.4.4

@droftarts

Thank you, I'll remember that for next time. you both as well as this forum have been beyond helpful. Can't wait to get this printer running!

@droftarts Thanks Ian, I'll give that a go! Appreciate the support!

@droftarts I will try to do what you tell me to do thank you

@ma3d said in Duet2 wifi + Duex5 with Nema34 Stepper Motor Driver:

-solder cable/pin to step, dir, en of chosen output and connect them to step, dir, en of my external driver.

This depends on the version of the Duex you have. If you have v0.11 (which has been the current version for at least a year), there are 5 pin headers for the external drivers to connect to. On the v0.10 and earlier, yes, you need to solder something to the vias. I'd tend to use a Molex pin header.

Will I get +step, + dr + en from those pins on duex? Do I have to use common ground for -step, -dir - en? Or is it just the opposite? Also is there a way of getting 5V signal to my external driver?

Yes, I think you get +step, + dr + en from the pins, with a common ground. Though if you are going to leave the board in Duex5 mode, you can't use the enable pin, so the stepper driver will just have to be enabled from power up. The signal is 3.3V, so if your external driver needs 5V, you need to level shift the signal to 5V. A non-inverting 74HCT series gate or buffer such as 74HCT08 can be used to do this. Much easier to choose a driver that accepts 3.3V input!

Ian

@Behrouz-AKT said in Parameter passing from within a macro:

@fcwilt I am observing the same thing - a string for some odd reason does not work but it should - actually i am trying to do something similar.

Why do you think a string should be working with the current firmware?

Thanks.

Frederick

@Behrouz-AKT
sorry misunder stood what you were doing , i do external triggers as below

;External Buttons
M950 J1 C"!e3stop" ; config input pin switch NO connected to io2 and Gnd
M581 P1 T0 C0 ; T0 = emergency stop on trigger; T1 = pause print; T{N} = runs the macro "sys/trigger{N}.g", rising edge S1 falling edge S0
;M581 P1 T4 c0 ; run a macro trigger4.g
M582 T0 ; Check External Trigger

@dc42 That fixed the heater problem.

Still having issues with the wifi randomly dropping, and also getting disk almost full warnings, despite my SSD card only being half full.

@head223a said in Hotend alarm heating to slow:

switching to 24v power unit resolved the extremely slow heating issue

Was it a 12v power supply before? What voltage are the heaters rated for? Running 12v heaters at 24v is dangerous.

@fcwilt Seems to stick. My brother is gonna cut it for me on the laser at work. Should know in a few days.

@jay_s_uk

Solved!

This is what I have done:

I updated the firmware to version 3.4.6 I grounded the hot-end with a wire to the ground of the power supply.

Side note:

During the last week when I was having the problem of the printer stopping midprint and resetting , I put on the heating in the printerroom.
The temperature was a convenient 23 degrees Celsius and the humidity had dropped to 45%,and that's low.
I can imagine that the low humidity has a negative effect on the buildup of static electricity causing the printer to stop and reset.
I'm not sure but I can imagine.....

@jay_s_uk : Thanks again and enjoy you're weekend.

Best regards,

Marc

It seems that sometimes routers with 2.4/5ghz networks if they are unified as one it will try and push some clients to the 5ghz band when they should not. It's called band steering. It may think the Duet should be on the 5ghz when it actually doesn't support it at all. Creating a separate 2.4ghz network and have the Duet use that may help.

@Phaedrux No ... That was not the version of the plug I've been messing with. That one went in fine.

It's always the little things :-p. Thanks for the assist.

@T3P3Tony
Thanks for the update!

@SANJR Order dependencies are listed in the Gcode dictionary, where relevant.
M208

Order dependency

If this command refers to any axes other than X, Y and Z then it must be later in config.g than the M584 command that creates those additional axes.

M671

Order dependency

M671 must come later in config.g than any command that changes the kinematics, e.g. M667 or M669.

So it shouldn't matter if M208 is before M671, or vice versa.

Your M671 does look a bit strange, though.

M671 X5:5:545:545 Y70:455:455:70 S5.0

This effectively says that the leadscrews are within the bed area, at (X,Y) 5,70 and 5,455 and 545,455 and 545,70. As it says in M671:

M671 is used to define the pivot points of the bed or gantry where it connects to the Z axis. These pivot points are often at each leadscrew, but may also be offset from the leadscrews, if the bed/gantry rests on a carriage extending out from the leadscrew, for example on a kinematic mount.

Generally with 4 Z axis motors, I'd expect the pivot points to be where the leadscrews are, rather than on Kinematic mounts under the bed.

Ian

@o_lampe

No OpenPnP has no knowledge of this machine as it is totally standalone.
2 head with rotation and it has JUKI nozzles but no way to connect cherry on the cake.

Machine works but I would like to get cameras to OpenPnP PC to simplify working process.

Cheers
Bengt

@droftarts

I absolutely agree with your thoughts if your concern is power failures.

I don't like power failures for variety of reasons.

So my approach was to install a propane powered generator with automatic transfer plus dual-conversion UPS units with enough runtime to power the printers until the generator kicks in, which is typically 30 seconds.

Overkill? Probably but its nice to have power that doesn't go away because a storm rolls in. I will admit that I only have enough propane in the tank for 10 days, so a serious power outage due to say, storm damage, may mean I will lose power.

Moving the endstops is a much cheaper solution. 😁

Frederick