Zortrax M200 Duet Conversion
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Bit further along.
Mounted the board with the antenna facing the ventilation holes, in the hope that I can sit my portable wifi dongle right beside the printer and get a reasonable connection.
All existing cables that are being used have been fitted with plugs to suit the Duet, time to start running all the wires up to the hot end. I'll be taking a bit of time/care with the wiring loom so it's all laid out very neatly and secured nicely at each end.
Despite looking like they are pulled tight, the stepper motor cables are quite loose….I even went for another look after seeing the picture lol. Optical illusion.
Got my dual fan/IR probe housing almost perfect (never mind the crap brown filament, I'm using it up on prototyping). The probe is miles from the nozzle but I don't care as I'll be using a precision cast ally build plate with Printbite on top, which I'll level manually with a feeler gauge like I always have.
Fans fitted are dodgy old 12v's I had laying around while I wait for my 24v fans to arrive.
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One concern though….
I can position the nozzle for setting the height in the start so that it's over the build plate, but if I'm using the full plate for a big print the sensor will be outside the edge of the plate over open space.
Is that going to be a problem??
My understanding is that it's just used for level checking and setting the nozzle height for the first layer, and that after that the layer heights are set by the steps of the Z axis stepper.
Is that correct?
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You can configure the XY offsets of the nozzle from the probe in the G31 command in config.g. Then all you need to do is choose bed probing points to put in bed.g that the probe can actually reach.
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You can configure the XY offsets of the nozzle from the probe in the G31 command in config.g. Then all you need to do is choose bed probing points to put in bed.g that the probe can actually reach.
Thank you,
I understand that I can set the bed probing points, but as the print progresses past the first layer is it all right if the probe is outside the edge of the build plate?
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I understand that I can set the bed probing points, but as the print progresses past the first layer is it all right if the probe is outside the edge of the build plate?
Yes, as long as it doesn't collide with anything or short against anything.
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Just putting my wiring loom that will replace the "Z" ribbon cable together.
I've got:
4x 24awg for the extruder stepper
2x 20awg for the heater
4x 28awg for the PT100 (I've chosen to use the 4 wire configuration)
4x 28awg for the print and heat break fans
3x 28awg for the IR sensorAll wire is silicone insulated RC wire, and I've done them in bundles as listed above with little bits of heatshrink every 6 inches to keep them from getting unruly.
I'll use either the spiral wrap or blue mesh tube shown around the lot.
Just wondering if there'll be any interference/signal issues having them all side by side??
I'd assume not, as the ribbon cable carries them all, but I thought I'd ask.
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It shouldn't be a problem. The thermistor and Z probe wires may pick up some interference from the extruder stepper wires, but both are filtered at the Duet.
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It shouldn't be a problem. The thermistor and Z probe wires may pick up some interference from the extruder stepper wires, but both are filtered at the Duet.
Cheers David.
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I'm going to convert my CoreXY Dbot to a Duet Wifi soon, maybe. I might sell if it I can and get another Delta. but nice project you have going, hopefully you'll get it up and running soon!
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I'm going to convert my CoreXY Dbot to a Duet Wifi soon, maybe. I might sell if it I can and get another Delta. but nice project you have going, hopefully you'll get it up and running soon!
The Zortrax M200 is a very rugged and reliable H bot machine, but they are an absolute pain in the arse to deal with when something goes wrong.
This will be a good start for me with setting up a Duet powered machine, and give me the grounding I need for my Core XY project.
I have to get it up and running soon as I've only got one machine to use.
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I'm assuming the Z heater element is 24v/40w, but it has no markings.
Its resistance is 13 ohm…does that sound right?
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13 Ohms at 24V would equate to 44W so that sounds right
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So here it is, all set up for preliminary testing.
Obviously I'll be prettying it up much more before it's finished, but I'll leave it as is until I'm sure there's nothing that needs redoing (like the IR sensor wires that are cut too short and pulled straight across the board).
Now I face the problem I've mentioned previously in that I can only just turn a computer on, and have simply no idea what people are talking about when referring to programming, and have struggled with the reference material even.
I'm hoping to fall on the mercy of the people here regarding that, and I'll share all printed files and tips I learn here for other Zortrax owners who might want to try this.
Can the experts please cast an eye over my connections and see if there's any glaring mistakes?
I've assumed I've got a version 1 board (?) and used the diagram supplied on the site.
Cheers,
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And I'm struggling….
I've downloaded Pronterface, all good.
I download the duet.inf and duetinf.cat files in what I think is raw, and save them to a folder on my desktop called "duet software".
I plug the USB lead into my computer and open my device manager to see "Duet" under other devices.
When I try to update drivers I refer it to my "duet software" (it won't open the folder) and it doesn't work.
Can anyone help me in baby steps please?
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So here it is, all set up for preliminary testing.
Obviously I'll be prettying it up much more before it's finished, but I'll leave it as is until I'm sure there's nothing that needs redoing (like the IR sensor wires that are cut too short and pulled straight across the board).
Now I face the problem I've mentioned previously in that I can only just turn a computer on, and have simply no idea what people are talking about when referring to programming, and have struggled with the reference material even.
I'm hoping to fall on the mercy of the people here regarding that, and I'll share all printed files and tips I learn here for other Zortrax owners who might want to try this.
Can the experts please cast an eye over my connections and see if there's any glaring mistakes?
I've assumed I've got a version 1 board (?) and used the diagram supplied on the site.
Cheers,
Yes you have a version 1 board because it has the blue solder resist.
You appear to have the ribbon cable plugged into the wrong connector on the Duet. It should plug in to the connector labelled CONN_SD. I didn't spot anything else wrong.
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And I'm struggling….
I've downloaded Pronterface, all good.
I download the duet.inf and duetinf.cat files in what I think is raw, and save them to a folder on my desktop called "duet software".
I plug the USB lead into my computer and open my device manager to see "Duet" under other devices.
When I try to update drivers I refer it to my "duet software" (it won't open the folder) and it doesn't work.
Can anyone help me in baby steps please?
Try downloading the while repository as a zip file, then extract the two files from that.
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Thank you that worked.
I'm now all connected to my wifi etc, and am looking at the Duet console on my computer.
The final step in the "getting connected" section was that I had to go to settings/configuration file, then "un-comment the M552 S1 command in config.g file so that the WiFi interface is enabled at startup."
Problem is that when I go to settings there is no configuration file tab, and I'm a little unsure what "un commenting" entails.
If I could get that done tonight I'm assuming I can turn it all on tomorrow and move onto setting it up/auto calibrating?
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Put the SD card in your computer and edit config.g in the sys folder.
Uncommenting means remove the colon from the start of the line ;
