Impressed!

jason71 · 27 Oct 2016, 13:21

I received my DuetWifi yesterday (with IR probe and Panel).
Very impressed so far.

Wifi working (occasional dropout, but I've a closer Access point that can be used.
Motion on XYZ, 16x with interpolation is much smoother than the Ramps+Polo at 16x
Love the Web Interface.
Nice to see Crimp housing and crimps included!

I'm a bit stuck on end-stops. I'll re-wire as N/C (or at least double-check what I have). Homing appears a bit different than Marlin. I've disabled Z Probe for now (just using Z end-stop on my MendelMax).
But it lifts Z a few mm then travels towards the switch but manually pressing the switch doesn't stop motion.

The End-stop switch is wired across the Input and GND (which appears correct as the input has a 3V3 pullup)

It's early days, I only had about 90mins on it last night, so hope to get it homing tonight and possibly the heated bed running.

T3P3Tony · 27 Oct 2016, 13:35

Hi Jason

Glad you like it

For your Z end stop theconfiguration may be setup to use a probe and be for a delta printer. Have a look on the Wiki at Configuring RepRapFirmware for a Cartesian printer. You will.need to change a couple of settings in config.g with M574 and M208 gcodes
For a full explanation of all the gcodes check out the gcode page on the RepRap wiki.

dc42 · 27 Oct 2016, 14:05

Your homez.g and homeall.g files are probably set up to use the Z probe for homing. To use a microswitch instead, see https://duet3d.com/wiki/Configuring_RepRapFirmware_for_a_Cartesian_printer#Homing_files.

jason71 · 27 Oct 2016, 15:14

Aw, thanks guys. Help appreciated. I've limited time right now and not being with the printer in the day job makes it harder to get going on a fairly new board.

I did use the Web Based on config tool (found last night), but I'm confident I'll get some good progress tonight.

jason71 · 27 Oct 2016, 21:36

Homing sequence complete Found the homez.g file and homeall.g files, tweaked and very easy once I'd grokked it.
Very flexible approach!

Thanks for your help!

Corexy · 28 Oct 2016, 04:21

Yep, I'm loving mine too.

Really getting into the finer tweaking regarding extrusion, and am seeing better and better results.

Web control is awesome, and I can see why they couldn't understand me wanting to use SD cards (unless wifi was down).

jason71 · 28 Oct 2016, 10:01

@Corexy:

Yep, I'm loving mine too.

Really getting into the finer tweaking regarding extrusion, and am seeing better and better results.

Web control is awesome, and I can see why they couldn't understand me wanting to use SD cards (unless wifi was down).

From what I understand, you can upload (I guess to the onboard SD Card) and print from that. If (or when in my case…) Wifi Drops out, it doesn't really matter.

It's a shame I'm mega busy at the moment, partying tonight, gigging tomorrow, family time Sunday, then back to the day job Monday.
I can't see me having much time on it this weekend.