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    • deckingmanundefined
      deckingman @oozeBot
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      @oozebot I'm on my phone right now so can't easily send a link but if you look at the documentation for the filaments feature, it specifically states that it's for exactly one extruder per filament. That's why I've never used it nor seen the button you described. So that feature would need a re-write for your specific use case. I'm not a writer of code but I would imagine that might be difficult to do because it requires checking if the mixing ratio is exactly 1:1 and then in that case only, controlling both extruders rather than just one.

      Ian
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      • deckingmanundefined
        deckingman @oozeBot
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        @oozebot Also, if you do end up adjusting something to compensate for filament compression, I'd suggest you do it by adjusting the steps per mm for one or other extruder, rather than adjusting the mixing ratio. It shouldn't be too difficult to do. Simply use filament that has already been through the first extruder rather than fresh filament to adjust the steps per mm for the second extruder. It's probably not compressing the filament as such but rather the first extruder leaves "bite marks" so the second extruder grabs the filament using those same bite marks, rather than on the OD. You'll likely have to change the calibration for different filament types.

        Ian
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        • Norderundefined
          Norder @oozeBot
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          @oozebot
          You will still have to match the extruder for printing to the extruder for unwinding.
          A simple filament change triggers a new asynchrony.
          Therefore, the extruder responsible for unwinding must not damage the filament by leaving small injuries from the feed rollers (thus stretching it).

          The YouTuber Jón Schone from the Proper Printing channel has constructed an extruder that does not convey the filament with toothed metal wheels as usual, but very gently with the help of two toothed belts.
          I think this type of extruder would not damage the filament as it unwinds so that it becomes longer or there could be problems with abrasion from the second extruder.

          Here is a video about his "Experimental Extruder" from his channel.
          He has made more videos about the extruder, so feel free to browse his playlist.

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          Man wird weiterhin den Extruder für das Drucken an den Extruder für das Abrollen anpassen müssen.
          Ein einfacher Filamentwechsel löst eine neue Asynchronität aus.
          Daher darf der Extruder der für das Abrollen zuständig ist, das Filament nicht beschädigen indem es kleine Verletzungen von den Förderrollen hinterlässt (wodurch es in die Länge gedrückt wird).

          Der YouTuber Jón Schone vom Kanal Proper Printing hat einen Extruder konstruiert der das Filament nicht wie üblich mit verzahnten Metallrädern fördert sondern ganz schonend mit Hilfe zweier Zahnriemen.
          Ich denke diese Art von Extruder würde das Filament beim abrollen nicht beschädigen so das es länger wird oder es durch den zweiten Extruder zu Problemen mit dem Abrieb kommen könnte.

          Hier ist ein Video über seinen "Experimental Extruder" von seinem Kanal.
          Er hat mehr Videos zu dem Extruder gemacht, also gerne mal in seiner Playlist umschauen.

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          • Adrian52undefined
            Adrian52
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            Thought I would add my experience, as I have been using tandem extruders for a few months. I have a laser filament monitor on the feed side of an orbiter 1.5, which initially was used via a 800mm bowden. This was a big improvement on my basic kossel printed extruder. When the orbiter 2 became available, it was feasible to use a direct drive, and as the two extruders have the same motor and drive gear, I just added the orbiter 2 to the effector end of the bowden tube and used both extruders. This gave a very noticable increase in the sharpness of prints.
            The effect on the laser filament monitor readings was interesting - over 9 prints ranging from ~6000 to~12000mm filament, the orbiter 1.5 alone gave 24 to 149 as the mean minimum and maximum figures. With the orbiter 2 direct drive added, the figures were 84 to 117, highly statistically significant reductions, particularly for the minimum value. There was no significant change in the monitor measurement of total extrusion compared to the extruder value.
            for those wanting to try this setup, I used
            M569 P3 S0 ; Drive 3 goes backwards - changed for orbiter 1.5
            M569 P4 S0 ; Drive 4 goes backwards - orbiter 2.0
            M350 E16:16 I1
            M906 E850:850 I10 ;current for orbiters
            M567 P0 E1.00:1.00 ; set mix ratio
            M92 E620:620 ; Set extruder steps per mm orbiters
            M572 D0:1 S0.04 ;pressure advance extruder 0 and 1

            I suspect that some of the issues discussed above are not coming into play on my simple single extruder system. I print at up to 200mm/sec with a 0.4 nozzle without a problem. The orbiters have opposing almost semicircular drive grooves which barely cut the filament, so I do not think the first extruder affects the second in this respect. I think I should maybe do some more formal testing to check out some of my assumptions (thank you @deckingman)

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            • oozeBotundefined
              oozeBot
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              I appreciate everyone's input. @deckingman - I will perform a few tests with adjusting e-steps instead of mixing ratio and report back.

              One oddity I just noticed is that the toolboard is reporting a higher voltage than the mainboard, even though they are both connected to the same power supply. @dc42 - I wonder if this could have anything to do with the variation? From B122:

              mainboard:

              Supply voltage: min 0.1, current 24.2, max 24.4
              

              toolboard:

              VIN voltage: min 24.5, current 24.8, max 25.0
              
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                  @herve_smith said in M567 Tool-Mixing issues/quirks:

                  i personally think that is going to an nearly impossible task without throwing exhorbanant amounts of time, money and resources at the problem.

                  @herve_smith Appreciate the input but we had this up and running on the first day. Our KISS solution is a simple split in the PTFE tubing and purposely advancing the filament off the spool 5cm at the beginning of the print. As long as the variance isn't negative where the 5cm gap is closed, there is no issue. All we are now trying to do is minimize the variance - which has already been calculated at 2.2%.

                  However, we are curious as to why there is a variance in the first place. It is not the extruder or the motor as swapping the two results in the same issue. Thanks

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                  • dc42undefined
                    dc42 administrators @oozeBot
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                    @oozebot said in M567 Tool-Mixing issues/quirks:

                    One oddity I just noticed is that the toolboard is reporting a higher voltage than the mainboard, even though they are both connected to the same power supply. @dc42 - I wonder if this could have anything to do with the variation?

                    The VIN voltage reading uses the 3.3V supply on the board as the voltage reference. So variations in the 3.3V supply voltage will affect the VIN reading. ADC gain and offset errors will also cause small variations.

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                    • dc42undefined
                      dc42 administrators @oozeBot
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                      @oozebot said in M567 Tool-Mixing issues/quirks:

                      Can you answer why selecting Filaments is disabled when mixing is enabled? I suspect deckingman is right but could it be considered to be optionally enabled for our use case? Thanks

                      That's one for @chrishamm.

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                      • oozeBotundefined
                        oozeBot @dc42
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                        @dc42 - we just did considerably more testing and would like your thoughts. We determined that the secondary extruder (at the spool) is operating as expected. It is the primary extruder, connected to the toolboard (within our heated chamber), that is under-extruding!

                        At room temp, the extruder connected to the toolboard calibrated at 814 e-steps. With the chamber at 70c, it calibrated at 826 e-steps.

                        This was all sparked by the difference in VIN between the room temp 6HC and the ~70c toolboard reported by B122 in my previous post. And I believe it finally explains why we've been calculating our e-steps higher than almost everyone else using an LGX extruder.

                        mainboard:

                        Supply voltage: min 0.1, current 24.2, max 24.4
                        

                        toolboard:

                        VIN voltage: min 24.5, current 24.8, max 25.0
                        

                        @chrishamm - since we are already rebuilding DWC, we can just re-enable Filaments for our use case unless you know a reason why that might break?

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                        • dc42undefined
                          dc42 administrators @oozeBot
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                          @oozebot the VIN voltage is not the reason for the change. The steps generated by the extruder are independent of VIN. The motor current is also independent of VIN, unless you are extruding very fast and the required motor voltage exceeds the VIN voltage.

                          What I think is happening is that at 70C the filament is softer, so the filament flows a little more as it is being extruded, which means that the back pressure from the hot end will cause a greater increase in the steps per mm.

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                          • oozeBotundefined
                            oozeBot @dc42
                            last edited by oozeBot

                            @dc42 Thanks. Your explanation makes more sense as the extruder itself is also at 70c..

                            This 'revelation' has finally resolved one of the last pieces in dialing in our machines with various materials as we can now recommend e-steps along with the other settings.

                            We'll consider this closed. I just ran a ~2 hour print and the two extruders are now almost entirely in sync.

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                            • chrishammundefined
                              chrishamm administrators @dc42
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                              @oozeBot The Filaments option is disabled when multiple extruders are mapped to a single tool because it isn't obvious what extruder drive should be used for filament mapping. If you have a 3-in-1 hotend with four tools (e.g T0 = custom mixing, T1 = E0, T2= E1, T3 = E2) you can use the M563 L parameter to specify the extruder drive to control (e.g. for T1 -> M563 P1 H1 D0 L0). Note that M703 only configures the filament of the mapped extruder drive; it cannot deal with multiple filaments (yet).

                              Duet software engineer

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                              • oozeBotundefined
                                oozeBot @chrishamm
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                                @chrishamm Thanks for the explanation. Since we do utilize the Filaments config files (but not the load/unload functionality) and are already rebuilding DWC, we just added it to our menu bar and are sorting it through globals and loading the configs through a custom mCode (instead of M701) like so:

                                     M98 P{"/filaments/" ^ param.S ^ "/config.g"}
                                     set global.filament = param.S
                                

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                                • DuetUserundefined
                                  DuetUser
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                                  Have you tried a weak motor as a secondary extruder, one that would miss steps on major resistance?
                                  I have done no serious tests yet, we use 5kg spools and have similar problem. First idea was to use two motors connected to one stepper driver, not to occupy other drivers.
                                  Main extruder use a 200 steps 25mm motor with belt transmission 2:1 and the secondary extruder at the spool is a 400 steps 42mm (I just had it handy) to match gear ratio. Unfortunately the main one is much weaker in this setup. Perhaps it would work with two same sized motors one 200 the other 400 steps.

                                  Missing steps is plainly a dirty hack, but in our case providing enough support for the main extruder requires only a gentle push.

                                  Mixing would definitely be a cleaner solution but is it at all possible to use two extruders inline without fighting each other at some point?

                                  peter

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                                  • deckingmanundefined
                                    deckingman @DuetUser
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                                    @duetuser said in M567 Tool-Mixing issues/quirks:

                                    ,............ but is it at all possible to use two extruders inline without fighting each other at some point?

                                    One possibility would be to have a "loop" of filament between the two extruders. Extruder A pulls filament out of the loop, and extruder B pulls filament out of the reel into the loop. If you don't want to use mixing to drive the two extruders, you could use some meta commands and conditional code so that say when extruder A has pulled 100mm from the loop, then extruder B pushes 100mm into it.

                                    Ian
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                                    • oozeBotundefined
                                      oozeBot @DuetUser
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                                      We’ve now successfully run almost three full 10kg mega spools of ABS through our setup.

                                      The way @deckingman explained it is how we are protecting any variance between extruders- there is a split in the PTFE tubing where a variable amount of filament is extended. Once we balanced the e-steps between extruders, little else is done except to verify the extended amount isn’t extending too much as we have it purposely set where the secondary extruder is just a touch faster than the primary.

                                      If we want to reduce how much is extended, we can send M567 P0 E1:0 to switch off the secondary extruder and then M567 P0 E1:1 to turn it back on when it has been reduced.

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                                      • DuetUserundefined
                                        DuetUser @oozeBot
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                                        Great, happy to hear it!
                                        What do you mean by "loop"? Is it a physical loop of filament? Where is it placed in the printer?
                                        I've just connected the secondary extruder (42mm NEMA 17), set it to 300 mA, and mixed so it extrudes more than tha main extruder.
                                        We'll see how far it goes 🙂

                                        peter

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                                        • oozeBotundefined
                                          oozeBot @DuetUser
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                                          @duetuser there is a split in the ptfe tubing leading from the spool to the printer.

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                                          • DuetUserundefined
                                            DuetUser @oozeBot
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                                            @oozebot So it is a loop. What a nice idea.

                                            peter

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