Hotend fan issue.

Anvil

@jay_s_uk thank you! I knew I had just been staring at it too long and was glossing over something simple. I’ll make sure it works in the morning.

Anvil

@jay_s_uk didnt work

jay_s_uk

@anvil said in Hotend fan issue.:

M950 F1 C"fan1" Q500 ; create fan 1 on pin fan1 and set its frequency
M106 P1 S255 H1 T45 ; set fan 1 value. Thermostatic control is turned on

The above in your config is correct.
Here's mine for reference

M950 F1 C"20.out1" Q500	
M106 P1 S1 H1 T45 C"Hotend Cooling"

in which case, if its going on and off i'd check your wiring

Anvil

@jay_s_uk Would it still always be on except for when its printing?

It ignores the thermostatic control and is just always on.
Then when I start a print It only starts and stops on the first few layers then goes back on full time. Its like the print file m107 is trying to kill my hotend fan for the first few layers at the same time its telling my part cooling fan to be off until layer 3.

jay_s_uk

@anvil is it always on even when you're not printing?

Anvil

@jay_s_uk yes

jay_s_uk

@anvil sounds like you've possibly damaged the fan control mosfet then
can you get a high res picture of the area around the fan connectors?

Anvil

part cooling fan operates as it should and responds to the DWC. ... however the tool fan is also listed on the DWC and doesnt respond to the controls... they both slide together when i attempt to manipulate them and the hotend fan wont turn off even when cool and i ask it to with m107 (not sure if it would even respond to that or not)

Anvil

@jay_s_uk Yes Ill open her up and check it out.

jay_s_uk

@anvil the tool fan listed in DWC controls the part cooling fan of the activated tool, not the hotend fan. Its useful in a multitool setup, but not so much if you only have 1 hotend.
thermostatic fans can't be controlled through DWC

Anvil

@jay_s_uk how would that even happen?

Anvil

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jay_s_uk

@anvil there doesn't appear to be any damage that can be seen
If you remove the SD card and power up the board, does the fan still come on?

Anvil

@jay_s_uk crud sorry I already put everything back together before i saw the sd card thing...

but after inspecting the connectors and making sure polarity is correct and continuity is present for the proper wires to each fan...

put everything back together and it the hotend fan is now observing the thermostatic control....

but still running into the issue of it starting and stopping at the beginning of a print.

would it still be helpful to remove the sd card and power up the board?

jay_s_uk

@anvil in that case post the first 50-100 lines of your gcode

Anvil

@jay_s_uk

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;TIME:26567
;Filament used: 97.598m
;Layer height: 0.5
;MINX:8.32
;MINY:11.374
;MINZ:0.5
;MAXX:323.257
;MAXY:313.949
;MAXZ:196.5
;Generated with Cura_SteamEngine main
T0
M190 S95
M104 S257
M109 S257
M82 ;absolute extrusion mode
G28 ; home all axes
G1 X5 Y10 Z0.2 F3000 ; get ready to prime
G92 E0 ; reset extrusion distance
G1 X160 E25 F600 ; prime nozzle
G1 X180 F5000 ; quick wipe
M83 ;relative extrusion mode
G10
;LAYER_COUNT:393
;LAYER:0
M107
M204 T500
M566 X540 Y540
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G0 X26.042 Y51.51
M204 P700
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Anvil

Ya it seems like m107 in the g code is turning off fan1 for some reason....

man what a frustrating issue....

It was printing flawlessly when I printed a part with a small first layer...

noticed the issue yesterday when i had a part with a large base and i had a jam by layer 2 because of heat creep

jay_s_uk

@anvil did you change M563 to F0?
M107 shouldn't be applied to thermostatic fan

Phaedrux

You can test the thermostatic fan by sending M106 P1 H-1 S1 which should turn it on full. When it's powered on full, move the print head around to bed to see if the fan cuts out. It sounds like a wiring break.

Anvil

@phaedrux your a wizard man. totally a wire in the drag chain... as soon as the hotend moves to the far side of the bed the wire for the fan is bent and when it straightens out in the chain it comes back on. Thanks!