Inconsistent delays during homing and other movements

synfinatic

@dc42 Connections are solid. Using ferrules on the Duet/Deux5 side and spade connectors on the power supply end. Wire is 13AWG silicone wire. Here's the wiring:
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elmoret

Not convinced that this is the cause of your issues, but note that your grounding configuration is in express violation of the recommendations in the documentation.

synfinatic

@elmoret You're right. I miss-read the docs. What is the proper way? With the ferrules, I can't daisy-chain the grounds can I? Am I supposed to splice the wires together (solder & heat shrink?). Smaller wires and run two wires into the same ferrule?

dc42

Some of the ferrules we normally supply have wider, almost rectangular inlets, designed to accept two cables. Did you not receive any of those? I'll post a photo when I am in the office.

Edit: here is the photo.

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synfinatic

@dc42 So I do have those, but they're too small for a single 13AWG wire I've been using for power, let alone two of them, so I used my own. The next smallest size wire I know I have is 20. Might have some 18 lurking around. What size wire is acceptable/is it designed for?

synfinatic

So I rewired the ground for the Duet/Duex5 to be per the instructions. The 20AWG wire was IMHO a bit too thin so I spliced the ground together. Basically, the two boards are connected via a single 13AWG wire and then I soldered in another 13AWG wire to connect to the power supply at a single point. I measured the resistance between the 3 connectors to verify a good connection and added some strain relief.

TL;DR: It follows the same pattern. Was able to home a couple of times and run the mesh bed scan via the PanelDue without problems, but I couldn't even get to homing the Y axis the first time without tripping the 20sec delay using DWC.

Any other suggestions/ideas?

dc42

OK, I'm running out of ideas. Please ask Tim to exchange your Duet.

synfinatic

Thanks David. I'll reach out to Tim.

synfinatic

Just a quick followup. Was able to RMA both boards and finally found the time to install them and test again. Made sure to use the latest stable releases for both firmware and DWC. All my problems seem to have been resolved.

Thanks to everyone for their help!

Jeremy Watkins

I just started setting up a Cartesian and I am experiencing a very similar issue. When I home all, the board immediately homes the x and y axis. However, the z axis doesn't home until around 60 seconds later. This doesn't happen if I home the z, x, and y independently.

Here is my homeall.g

; homeall.g
; called to home all axes
;
; generated by RepRapFirmware Configuration Tool on Wed Sep 26 2018 00:09:26 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 Z5 F6000 S2 ; lift Z relative to current position
G1 S1 X207 Y-215 F1800 ; move quickly to X and Y axis endstops and stop there (first pass)
G1 X-5 Y5 F6000 ; go back a few mm
G1 S1 X-07 Y-215 F360 ; move slowly to X and Y axis endstops once more (second pass)
G1 S1 Z-150 F1800 ; move Z down stopping at the endstop
G90 ; absolute positioning
G92 Z.2 ; set Z to axis minimum (you may want to adjust this)

; Uncomment the following lines to lift Z after probing
G91 ; relative positioning
G1 S2 Z5 F100 ; lift Z relative to current position
G90 ; absolute positioning

Jeremy Watkins

@jeremy-watkins I just caught my mistake. Clearly, I didn't have enough sleep to see it last night, but my 5th line of code has X-07 instead of X207. Changing it resolved all my issues.