Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3

Danal

Can we go back to 24 seconds? (By the way, I get that same time, roughly). Is this a real problem?

Data point 1: The cooling fan on the smart effector in my delta causes false triggers of the probe. I turn that fan off while probing. At the beginning of every print job. And, yes, the hotend is hot (for accurate probing) and has filament in it. For much longer than 24 seconds. No issues, ever.

The finned heat sink in most hot ends is physically large enough to have some amount of thermal inertia. I'd seriously doubt that its temperature changes more than a trivial amount with the fan off for 20 or 30 seconds.

Is there some hot end config or use case that I'm missing?

Yes? No? Thoughts?

deckingman

@bearer said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

It is easily avoided by powering both from the same (5v) supply through the ribbon cable; direction doesn't matter, both will always be powered together. (just make sure to set the jumpers correctly)

Sorry I'm being especially thick today. To be clear, I connect the RPI to the Duet with the ribbon cable. Then I could connect my existing 5V to the Duet Ext 5V connector, remove the internal 5V enable jumper, fit a jumper to 5V to SBC and remove the SBC to 5V jumper yes?

A Former User

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

Sorry I'm being especially thick today. To be clear, I connect the RPI to the Duet with the ribbon cable. Then I could connect my existing 5V to the Duet Ext 5V connector, remove the internal 5V enable jumper, fit a jumper to 5V to SBC a~~nd remove the SBC to 5V jumper yes?~~

only remove the internal 5v jumper (and fit the 5v to SBC), was a typo in the docs (was only recently corrected by dc42)

deckingman

@Danal said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

Is there some hot end config or use case that I'm missing?

Yes? No? Thoughts?

Yes. See the scenario in my very first post.

Danal

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

Slice Engineering Mosquito style

Got it, I will take a look at those. Thanks for clarifying!

While the conversations about what Duet should do continue... have you considered a small external circuit, just a FET or something, switching logic from the duet and powered directly from whatever fan V, the goal being to invert the logic of controlling those fans at the hardware level? And then invert the output pin on the Duet (via config).

This should result that they would come on at power up, and only after the Duet is fully up would they be switched on and off per what the Duet thinks is right.

Again, this is not a 'strategic' fix... but given your situation, it might be worth the 'hack', for now.

deckingman

@Danal Yes, the Mosquito heat breaks have extremely low thermal mass. The cross sectional area is in the order of 15% of say an E3D V6 where the heat break is also a structural element. Which makes them extremely efficient as heat breaks and as I mentioned above, one can print PLA all day long with no fan and even without the tiny copper heat sink providing the filament is constantly moving forward (albeit slowly). The problem arises when the filament is static because heat will creep up through the filament itself even though the thermal transfer via the thin wall stainless steel tubes is minimal. That's when the fan is needed.

By way of comparison, here is picture of my 6 input hot end assembly on the right next to a Diamond 5 colour on the left. The heat breaks/heat sinks on the Diamond are modified V6 lite (the big finned sliver bits) and the heat break assemblies on mine are the small copper parts which you can just make out if you peer closely.

Ref the fan(s) - I think I'll just wire them as always on as I described above. I destroyed the originals by feeding them 24V but replacements are on the way, and they are almost silent (to my aged ears). Even the high flow versions that I'm currently using aren't too bad.

A Former User

Did you comment on where the fan(s) are connected? Curious if this is different for the toolboard vs the expansion and main board.

deckingman

@bearer said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

Did you comment on where the fan(s) are connected? Curious if this is different for the toolboard vs the expansion and main board.

I didn't - but they are (currently) just connected to ~~io6~~ OUT6 on one of the expansion boards (I think it's 6 - the first 2 pin header).

Edit - I meant out6 not io6 - just corrected

A Former User

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

@bearer said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

Did you comment on where the fan(s) are connected? Curious if this is different for the toolboard vs the expansion and main board.

I didn't - but they are (currently) just connected to io6 on one of the expansion boards (I think it's 6 - the first 2 pin header).

Thanks, if you have a toolboard I'd love to see if its different. (both expansion and main board have the pull downs (on all outputs), while the tool board does not). Just a curiosity on my end, so don't put much effort in it on my behalf.

deckingman

@bearer said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

@bearer said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

Did you comment on where the fan(s) are connected? Curious if this is different for the toolboard vs the expansion and main board.

I didn't - but they are (currently) just connected to io6 on one of the expansion boards (I think it's 6 - the first 2 pin header).

Thanks, if you have a toolboard I'd love to see if its different. (both expansion and main board have the pull downs, while the tool board does not). Just a curiosity on my end, so don't put much effort in it on my behalf.

Sorry - don't have any tool boards. Also see my edited post above (OUT6 not io6).

A Former User

fair enough! which out it is makes little difference, they're driven the same way all of them.

maybe some of the other users who do have a toolboard can chime in if the behavior is the same as it would be interesting to factor in when people ask if they should get this or that.

deckingman

@bearer The only reason I used OUT6 is that these are simple 2 wire fans and the lower numbered OUT headers are 4 pin with additional gnd and tacho. So I wanted to keep these headers in reserve in case I ever need to add a tacho fan.

A Former User

I meant that which output is used doesn't matter with respect to the behavior when the board is reset. There are indeed other considerations to make.

Phaedrux

Have not tried this myself, but there are examples of people getting the Pi to boot in ~5 seconds with some modifications.

http://himeshp.blogspot.com/2018/08/fast-boot-with-raspberry-pi.html

Note that was with Pi3 a couple years ago now. Not sure how relevant it would be to Pi4.

The pi forums have many threads on trying to optimize boot time. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=258091

Normal SD card boot times are all pretty close to 25 seconds on the pi4 from what I've seen. Moving to an SSD may improve that a bit but I don't think that's a natively supported option yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp6XW-fGVjo

If sticking with an SD card, try and choose one with high write speeds and high IOPs. A2 U3 class.

chrishamm

I just looked into the boot process again and I've found a way to prioritise DSF. This way, DCS will start within 10 seconds when the Pi is powered on.

deckingman

On the subject or wiring the fans as being always on, looking at the wiring diagram https://d17kynu4zpq5hy.cloudfront.net/igi/duet3d/6mYpDS1EmhXHobw4.huge it looks like I could simply connect the fans to OUT3 (or 4 or 5) GND and V_OUTLC1.

gtj0

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

On the subject or wiring the fans as being always on, looking at the wiring diagram https://d17kynu4zpq5hy.cloudfront.net/igi/duet3d/6mYpDS1EmhXHobw4.huge it looks like I could simply connect the fans to OUT3 (or 4 or 5) GND and V_OUTLC1.

I may have missed this before but why not use the always-on fan header right above out_0?

A Former User

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

V_OUTLC1.

if you remove the jumper that pin has no voltage, use 12v on same header instead.

A Former User

@gtj0 said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

I may have missed this before but why not use the always-on fan header right above out_0?

methinks he has 24v Vin and 12v fans.

deckingman

@bearer said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

@deckingman said in Quick question about boot order with an RPi and Duet 3:

V_OUTLC1.

if you remove the jumper that pin has no voltage, use 12v on same header instead.

???? There is no 12V on that header - but I'm not going to remove the jumper - I'll set it to 12V.