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    jckray
    last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 19:42

    H-1 is needed to disable thermostatic control

    John
    Founder of Hydra Research LLC, developers of the open-source 3D printers and providers of 3D printing services.
    https://www.hydraresearch3d.com/

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      Phaedrux Moderator @jckray
      last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 19:48

      How high of an F value have you tried? I had a fan that needed to be very high (10000) to keep it from pulsing. I eventually just swapped out to a better fan.

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        jckray
        last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 20:03

        Highest I went was 1000. I using Pelonis fans and they definitely make high-quality products. I will try higher values and see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion.

        John
        Founder of Hydra Research LLC, developers of the open-source 3D printers and providers of 3D printing services.
        https://www.hydraresearch3d.com/

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          Phaedrux Moderator
          last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 20:07

          I guess when I said better I meant to say, better suited. Some fans are just not designed to work well with a PWM voltage like this.

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            jckray @Phaedrux
            last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 22:56

            @phaedrux I tried higher frequencies with no luck. I also tried another 50mm blower fan I had laying around with no luck.

            Not sure what is going on as these fans work just fine on my other Marlin/Rambo based printers.

            John
            Founder of Hydra Research LLC, developers of the open-source 3D printers and providers of 3D printing services.
            https://www.hydraresearch3d.com/

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              Phaedrux Moderator
              last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 22:58

              Just keep trying values from very low to very high.

              I wonder if them being 5v has anything to do with it? Not sure.

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                jckray @Phaedrux
                last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 22:58

                @phaedrux

                On a side note, PWM seems to work reasonably well with a Noctua 40x10 fan.

                You mentioned you found a fan that worked better. Was it also a 50mm blower? If so any chance you could shoot me a link it?

                John
                Founder of Hydra Research LLC, developers of the open-source 3D printers and providers of 3D printing services.
                https://www.hydraresearch3d.com/

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                  Phaedrux Moderator @jckray
                  last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 23:00

                  @jckray I use 12v Sunon blowers. Not sure if they have 5v equivalents. If you're still interested I can dig up the digikey link.

                  Or if you know what you're looking for with fans browsing digikey might find you some good options.

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                    Phaedrux Moderator
                    last edited by 9 Sept 2018, 23:20

                    https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/sunon-fans/MF50151VX-B00U-A99/259-1829-ND/7691033

                    https://www.digikey.ca/product-detail/en/sunon-fans/MF50151V2-B00U-A99/259-1870-ND/7942633

                    The first one is a bit more powerful and louder, the second is practically silent, but will probably need 100% speed for PLA.

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                      fcwilt
                      last edited by 10 Sept 2018, 00:03

                      Hi,

                      If raising F doesn't work then I would conclude that it is the fan.

                      You do have the fan outputs configured for 5 volts - correct?

                      I have used a wide variety of fans and never had one not work though some worked better at low speeds than others.

                      Frederick

                      Printers: a small Utilmaker style, a small CoreXY and a E3D MS/TC setup. Various hotends. Using Duet 3 hardware running 3.4.6

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                        jckray
                        last edited by 10 Sept 2018, 04:20

                        I made a little progress. I tried sending the fan configuration line M106 P0 I0 F10 B0.1 H-1 as a console command. This works until I reset my printer at which point it goes back to have the same problem discussed before. I confused because I have this exact same fan configuration line in my config.g.

                        Does anyone have any idea why the line in my config.g is getting ignored? I pasted my full fan configuration section located in config.g.

                        ; Fans
                        M106 P0 I0 F10 B0.1 H-1 ; Set fan 0 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control off
                        M106 P1 S1 I0 F500 H1 T50 ; Set fan 1 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned pn

                        John
                        Founder of Hydra Research LLC, developers of the open-source 3D printers and providers of 3D printing services.
                        https://www.hydraresearch3d.com/

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                          jckray
                          last edited by 10 Sept 2018, 04:23

                          Okay nevermind. I have solved it! Should have waited another minute before making that last post. I had a bad line of code in a separate file I have set up to run on startup. Everything is golden now.

                          Thanks for everyone's help and ideas!

                          John
                          Founder of Hydra Research LLC, developers of the open-source 3D printers and providers of 3D printing services.
                          https://www.hydraresearch3d.com/

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                            SnowCrash
                            last edited by SnowCrash 9 Oct 2018, 04:37 10 Sept 2018, 04:36

                            Hi @jckray,

                            Glad you got it sorted out.

                            Just thought I'd chip in about the issue of PWM frequencies for the benefit of anyone else struggling with pulsating fans and potentially reading this thread. 100Hz (or even 1000Hz for that matter) is way too low for PWM fan signals. Although there's no one frequency that's suitable for all PWM fans, conventional wisdom puts the number at 25,000Hz (or 25MHz), while some even opting for a little higher (around 30MHz). Often times, changing the frequency to that level makes a significant difference in terms of the fan's acoustics.

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                              Red Sand Robot @SnowCrash
                              last edited by 10 Sept 2018, 15:59

                              @snowcrash Not sure if I am understanding exactly how PWM affects the fans, but could setting a high frequency (as in the mHz range as you mentioned) damage the fans or the board at all?

                              I'm running a 24v blower fan and any time I set it lower than 100% it emits a high pitched whine (at 500hz). Curious as to if changing the frequency to much higher will remove the whine without damaging anything

                              almost an engineer

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                                SnowCrash @Red Sand Robot
                                last edited by SnowCrash 9 Oct 2018, 17:23 10 Sept 2018, 17:23

                                @red-sand-robot said in Print cooling fan not working properly:

                                @snowcrash Not sure if I am understanding exactly how PWM affects the fans, but could setting a high frequency (as in the mHz range as you mentioned) damage the fans or the board at all?

                                I'm running a 24v blower fan and any time I set it lower than 100% it emits a high pitched whine (at 500hz). Curious as to if changing the frequency to much higher will remove the whine without damaging anything

                                Raising the PWM frequency to the levels I mentioned won't cause any damage to the fan or board (btw, I previously verified with @dc42 in another thread that the board can generate these frequencies and indeed it can). I'm not surprised your blower whines at 500Hz. Give 25MHz a go and see if it solves the problem (don't forget the value is entered in Herz, so 25000).

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                                  samlogan87
                                  last edited by 10 Sept 2018, 18:03

                                  @SnowCrash so 25kHz is what you recommend for even a 2 wire fan that is pwm’d? The wife got sick of the whine so I ordered some 4 wire fans but in the mean time should I bump it up that high as it might be a few weeks before the others show up.

                                  Regards,
                                  Sam

                                  Custom Core-XY

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                                    SnowCrash @samlogan87
                                    last edited by SnowCrash 9 Oct 2018, 18:17 10 Sept 2018, 18:16

                                    @samlogan87 said in Print cooling fan not working properly:

                                    @SnowCrash so 25kHz is what you recommend for even a 2 wire fan that is pwm’d? The wife got sick of the whine so I ordered some 4 wire fans but in the mean time should I bump it up that high as it might be a few weeks before the others show up.

                                    Regards,
                                    Sam

                                    Hi Sam,

                                    No reason not to try and see. Though certainly not all 2-wire fans like to be PWM'd as they weren't designed for this kind of operation, still in many instances there will be a significant improvement with higher frequency in terms of noise (and functioning).

                                    Btw, if you're hooking up a PWM fan to the Duet by running the blue (=pwm signal) wire to the GND pin of the fan header and independent power lines to the fan, don't forget to add the protection diode on the signal line.

                                    For anyone interested, I dug up 2 previous discussions on this topic in which @dc42 took part (and also include instructions on the said protection diode):

                                    https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/6054/help-configuring-pwm-fan-in-thermostatic-mode-for-duet-drivers/4

                                    https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/5248/maximum-frequency-of-pwm-fans

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                                      Red Sand Robot @SnowCrash
                                      last edited by 11 Sept 2018, 02:25

                                      @snowcrash Hey, thanks for the tip to turn the frequency up to 25kHz! completely fixed the electronic whine I was hearing from my blower fan, didn't even think it turned on when I set it to 30% speed!

                                      almost an engineer

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                                        SnowCrash @Red Sand Robot
                                        last edited by 11 Sept 2018, 04:46

                                        Very cool, @red-sand-robot, I'm happy this helped 🙂

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                                          samlogan87
                                          last edited by 11 Sept 2018, 09:52

                                          @SnowCrash Thanks for that. I am running them at 25000hz and I think there is a slight improvement but still noticeable. I am guessing the fans that I got are not the best.

                                          Kind Regards,
                                          Sam

                                          Custom Core-XY

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