Stepper whine after timeout
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When I first turn my printer on, it is quiet. After a print it never returns to the ultra quiet mode. The steppers retain some level of whine. I would like the steppers to return to that quiet phase after timeout. What should I change? Posting my config here.
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@erice555 your motors are probably still energised.
Turn them off using M84 -
@jay_s_uk Cool. But how do I set them up so that they 'turn off' after timeout?
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@erice555 there is an idle timeout which is also set using M84 in the config, this is typically 30 seconds (I30).
The amount amount of idle current is set in M906 and is typically 30%.
But really, I wouldn't be changing that to turn them off as whenever they are idle for that period, the current will drop.
I would suggest playing with the idle current setting to find a value where they don't whine rather than turn them off, or just put it in your stop gcode at the end -
@jay_s_uk thank you. very helpful.
