duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped

A Former User

Have you removed the SD card as well? (Doubt it'll have an effect, but just do it for good measure).

https://github.com/T3P3/Duet/raw/master/Duet2/Duet2v1.04/Duet2_1.04c_Schematic.pdf

All the big fuses are on the Vin rail, so the fuse doesn't relly have + and - terminals. Just + and + protected by the fuse.

Do you measure continuity between Vin and ground with only the fan fuse (F2) installed? (and with the power off ofcourse, if not already obvious)

If so I'm not sure what to say if there is nothing connected to the fan outputs; the board will most likely need repairs. How is the warranty situation with respect to when/where it was purchased?

droftarts

@imrj Can you post good, high res images of both sides of the board? How is the board mounted? Could it be sat on anything that is shorting it?

Ian

imrj

the board is totally unmounted from everything and nothing connected except VIN...I posted two pics, there is no visible damage or burnt smell or anything anywhere that I can see!!

imrj

no SD Card connected, nothing at all.....if i try to connect any of those two fuses missing, it immediately shorts but nothing has yet seem to have burned or puff or anything

imrj

@imrj i will try the idea of using low voltage first starting at 3.3v upwards and see how it goes

imrj

ok the highest i could try was 2.0V...if I short the top fuse block ALL the motor drivers get hot in a hurry.....if I short the botton block the PWM FAN2 gets got......

so wth could have happened here? am totally at a loss

A Former User

@imrj said in duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped:

@imrj i will try the idea of using low voltage first starting at 3.3v upwards and see how it goes

just to be pedantic, low current was the idea; but never the less I think you have the answer of what is wrong - but I'll leave the rest to Ian and/or David to decide what to do for now.

edit: mabe a closer look at the area between the daughterboard connector and the expansion connector just below and to the left of the cpu in your picture? were you using a thermocouple/pt-100 board?

imrj

@bearer no PT100 board, is a Duet Ethernet, thats the module u see there, but ethernet works fine when using 5V USB VIN...i looked there and all over but man just cant see anything wrong at all, i mean the board looks like brand new

A Former User

that part i meant? maybe its just a reflection or something, but as I can't see anything else

imrj

@bearer nah is just bad reflection, is clean as new there

A Former User

Mkay, well, I still think your first and best choice is to check if the board is still under warranty; and then see if the failure would be covered by that.

droftarts

@imrj Is it possible that you have applied 24V power with VIN and GND swapped? This would generally have the effect of destroying the stepper drivers; see https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/How_to_destroy_your_Duet_2#Section_Methods_that_might_work_or_only_impact_some_functions_of_your_Duet
Then applying power the correct way around would cause the shorted stepper drivers to blow the fuse. Not sure why the fan fuse would blow too. 5V is protected by a diode, which is why it works with the voltage the correct way around.

@dc42?

Ian

arhi

This type of issue is why I purchased a thermal camera. If you have access to one, get a power source that can go into the constant current mode, slowly increase the current and look at the board trough thermal camera. You will quickly find out where the short is.

If you can't get access to a thermal camera, you can try using a milliohm meter and try to find a short using it.

If you don't even have a milliohm meter you can try making one but fixing of the board is most probably outside your capacity and you should just find a way to get it to someone who can fix it for you.

A Former User

@droftarts said in duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped:

Not sure why the fan fuse would blow too

and presumably causing both TR1 and D21 to fail?

imrj said in duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped:

.if I short the botton block the PWM FAN2 gets got.....

dc42

@droftarts said in duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped:

@imrj Is it possible that you have applied 24V power with VIN and GND swapped? This would generally have the effect of destroying the stepper drivers; see https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/How_to_destroy_your_Duet_2#Section_Methods_that_might_work_or_only_impact_some_functions_of_your_Duet
Then applying power the correct way around would cause the shorted stepper drivers to blow the fuse. Not sure why the fan fuse would blow too. 5V is protected by a diode, which is why it works with the voltage the correct way around.

@dc42?

Ian

I agree, I suspect that either you are applying VIN and ground the wrong way round now, or you have done so in the past.

btw applying reverse polarity doesn't always blow the drivers, it depends on the current limit of the PSU. I have got away with it in the past.

A Former User

without more information on the what happened prior to the failure I'm hesitant to suggest what to replace, but its pretty clear at a minimum you'll need to replace the parts you identified as getting warm TR1, D21, U5, U6, U7, U8 and U9 + U3 and D1 i'd recon. Almost $40 worth of parts, and a bit of work.

if this is caused by wrong polarity that may well be it. if its caused by over voltage/transient there could be more damage. having the 5v regulator and fan2 output fail is a bit concerning in that respect.

what was the printer doing before it failed?

arhi

@dc42 said in duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped:

I agree, I suspect that either you are applying VIN and ground the wrong way round now, or you have done so in the past.

I find a beefy fast diode across Vdd and Vss immediately after the main fuse tends to protect the board in most cases. Adding a low drop / schottky trough diode after that for the low current side of things tends to increase the chance of everything surviving reverse polarity sky high as high current stuff usually can survive reverse polarity for the short period till fuse is blown due to current flowing through the fast diode across Vdd/Vss and the low drop will completely protect the low current parts from negative voltage.

dc42

There is already a diode protecting the 5V regulator.

If you apply reverse polarity then the body diodes in the output mosfets of the stepper drivers will conduct. Each driver has 2 pairs of series connected mosfets. So that's 10 pairs sharing the short circuit current of the PSU.

arhi

@dc42 great, so the fuse should blow before the big damage

dc42

@arhi said in duet ethernet blew both fuses, replacing hasnt helped:

@dc42 great, so the fuse should blow before the big damage

It depends on the short circuit current of the PSU. If the PSU supplies 20A continuously into the Duet, then I think it's likely that the drivers will blow, because that's 2A * 2 * about 2V per driver, which is about 8W per driver, and the 15A fuse will probably take a minute or two to blow. If the PSU has short circuit protection then it will probably go into hiccup mode, resulting in much less average current and the fuse remaining intact. That's what happened when I connected VIN the wrong way round.

If the fuse blows instantly when you connect VIN then it's likely that your PSU is providing a lot more than 20A.