shorter title? I can't set this fricking thing up! HELP aready!
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I have replaced the control boards in my 3 printers with Duet boards, and it's the best thing I ever did to these machines. When I've had issues I've been able to post specific questions here on the forum and have always received prompt help that got me going.
Take a deep breath and give us enough information to start getting you going.
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@pm7399
A German proverb says...
As you call into the forest, so it resounds.You wrote that you ordered the 6HC board from Amazon.
I assume the color of the board is black, right?If so... and I'm almost 100% sure it is... then the following sentence is a boomerang.
...I know I'm not the only one. Why can't you guys just make this easy? you haven't made enough money on these things yet to have a decent set of instructions made up??...
DDA5X... 0.9° Stepper... Linearrails... Duet 2 Wifi... PT100 Board... Duet IR-Probe... Dyze Pro Kit up to 500°C.. etc
Thingiverse -
You can only get the help you ask for. To help you ask for help, here is some of the information we require.
https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/5909/guide-for-posting-requests-for-help
And everyone else, please don't dog pile on the poor guys, he's already having a bad day.
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@norder It's blue, or kind of blue/green.
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@rushmere3d You're right. Quite frankly I'm somewhat embarrassed about my lashing out in frustration. Please accept my apology. Later in this thread, after I reply to a few I will lay out the entire picture. Thank you.
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@zemlin Thank you. I will here in after a few replies.
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@phaedrux Thank you for your compassionate reply. Not saying that I'm really proud of my lashing out due to my long-term frustration but being able to see past that and show that compassion really says a lot about the kind of person you are, it actually helped.
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@herve_smith Yeah, but it sure felt good in the moment. I really hope you can see the humor in me saying that, you're right and I know it. I picked up on 3D printing in general fairly well, I was upgrading firmware and modding my first printer to direct drive the first week I had it, II easily picked up on Marlin, figured out Klipper Mainsail Fluidd in hardly any time at all. My printer has been down now for going on 3 months and time after time of trying to figure out RRF and Duet continued to stymie me and I reached a boil over point. Not saying it was right or good just trying to help you see what got me there.
So now for your questions... I have and Ender 3 V2 udated ( I say updated and not upgraded) with the ender extender and the Z-drive kit. In that process the guy I was emailing with at ender extender recommended that I get an SKR2 board to upgrade my main board at the same time. He nor I could have known at the time that Marlin didn't get along with BTT SKR boards, that had specific layouts and I tried from about January of this year to make that work. Unsuccessfully, at least unsuccessfully with my configuration and how I wanted it working, specifically having the extra Z motor and driver and really wanting to have that second Z drive home independently of the first one. I mean I spent hours and hours for weeks then months trying to get that to work correctly but there was always some kind of bug that was at least one of several confirmed bugs that had not been fixed in more than a year and a half at least. I still don't think they're worked out but now that I have cut off and replaced all my connectors for this Duet board I had lost the motivation to even go back and try it again.
There is no config file, I haven't gotten that far. I got all my connectors re-done with the ones that came with the duet board but I've never been able to get through the configurator to get there.
I got my board from Amazon June 9th from 3DMakeWorld, Inc. I think that's all the questions you asked, did I miss any?
Oh one more upgrade is the bed heater, 120 Volts, 750 Watts also from Amazon with the DC to AC relay. That part seemed to work fine.
So I have an Ender 32 V2 printer with the extender kit that gives me 400x400x500 volume area for printing, I have a dual Z axis with it's own motor and driver and endstop. I have a raspberry pi 4 but I'd rather run it in standalone mode without that. I would love it if I was able to utilize all the functionality the board has to offer including stealthchop, pressure advance, you know, all that stuff. Independent z homing... I have looked at the documentation and I know where the power goes, where the bed heater goes, where the drivers hook up on the board, I used to know where the fans, thermistors, heaters and endstops hooked up although I haven't looked at it in a while and would need to refresh my memory on those last ones. I have zero ckue about reprap firmware, no idea how to write macros. I know that the configurator is supposed to set up all the initial stuff for you and I even imagine when I had the config file that I could probably look at the examples in the config file and mostly understand what was going on with them, likely confidently enough to alter ones already written, make new ones that I needed, like that second Z drive, maybe more but I can't get through that configurator. page 1 i select custom configuration, page 2 is general where you tell it your axis limits, what kind of printer, homing speeds and such, then the third page is expansion boards with a hole bunch of options I have no isea how to answer, oh yeah probably an important thing to note. I have no bltouch. A couple of the next pages I could probably just hit next but I honestly just don't know and don't know where to go from there.
So I get frustrated with it again and my printer just sits there again. did I leave anything out?
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@pm7399 We all get frustrated now and again and need to blow off a bit of steam from time to time. But while having a rant feels good at the time, it's seldom very productive when help is needed. These forums are populated with many knowledgeable people who are only too willing to help given the chance.
While the configuration tool is a great help to many people, it does assume a certain amount of knowledge like how to identify what type of end stop one has, the difference between active high and active low, the difference between high and low end of an axis etc. These terms what I would call "general 3D printing knowledge" and are not specific to Duet hardware or firmware which is why you won't find them documented. And of course, every machine is different with new models and variants coming to the market all the time, meaning the documentation can only be "generic" rather than specific.
It sounds to me as if you would benefit from having an Ender 3 config.g file, to at least get you started. I don't have one myself but I'm sure someone else will be along shortly to help you out. Just be patient, take it step by step, and remember that to get specific answers, you need to ask specific questions. The way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.........
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OK so first off, what Duet board do you have?
The only config tool will get you to 95% of the way, it can't set up dual Z as far as i understand this is done once you have the files it generates on the Duet. The config.g is a text file and will make a lot more sense once you have it and can view it.
The 3rd page of the config tool is not specifically for expansion boards, that's where you tell the tool you have them, the rest of the page is asking what connectors are you using i.e If you have a Duet 3 mini 5+ is says Driver 0 is your X axis, and it asks where are you plugging in the endstop? It also asks where are you plugging in the fans? and then heaters.
The next pages asks you specific question about things like motors, endstops, heaters and fan etc. You can find this information from datasheets for the hardware you have but also use general numbers at this stage.
If you take a look on Youtube Chris Riley (Chris' basement) did a video on setting up a duet with the config tool, his might be a little old now but there might be other. Here's Chris' Video: https://youtu.be/6nqddfxHla0
Once you have a basic config, come back and post it here.
