Best IMO is to remove the pins from the connector shell at one end (easy with the Molex KK connectors); then hand-twist the 4 wires around each other without imparting a twist to the individual wires; then re-insert them in the shell. If you twist the cable with the shells in place, then the individual wires have to twist, and then they will tend to un-twist the cable. For stepper motor cables, I prefer to twist the two wire in each phase around each other; then loosely twist the two pairs around each other. This minimises magnetically induced EMI.

@zapta Yeah. The cost of a panel due was hard to justify. However, as an industrial maintenance technician, I can whip up a control panel out of recycled parts in no time.

jrdm@, this may interest you, 1200x1200mm printer. Description has a link to thingiverse. He uses 4 silicon pads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qjv9yPHOv8

@lowracer said in Converted Ultimaker 2+ to Duet Wifi - Interface to UM2 LCD?: ... my son remarked, the aesthetics of the machine are spoiled if you don't have the stock LCD working... Not exactly what you are looking for but I am using the paneldue as a tether device. That is, it's not attached mechanically to the printer and when I want to use it I pick it up and use. This way you can keep the original look of your printer (though non working display). It may also be ergonomic considering the small and non slanted screen of the UM2.

you are right. however the difference is just the packages.

@puterpro said in "Backup" for 12V systems if powerloss?: @PlasticMetal - Those are sweet units! Wish I has room for one. Well, I certainly don't have them in a rack. One is on a metal shelf (restaurant-style wire shelves, plenty of air circulation), & the unused one is over in a corner.

Work with one and rotate the assembly around the filament using a spare stepper drive, or perhaps target that as stage 2 of the testing. Read up on the laser filament monitor tests and get some of the filaments that caused large variations or problems with them. How are you planning to verify your system? I've found the experimental noise on the weight of small test parts to be significant. Solving under and over extrusion issues is a great aim but filament diameter is one part of the puzzle which other projects are also working on such as the magnetic filament monitors towted potential capability to automatically calibrate non linear extrusion. I'm tackling calibration process issues myself this week and have decided to test setting my extrusion multiplier to 1 then adjusting the filament diameter to correct wall size, adjust extrusion multiplier over a sequence of solid 20*20mm test coupons, and finally tackle offset and scaling issues. This is before taking pressure advance, retraction settings, and extrusion correction in any detail. Setting the temperature has been far too vague for my liking so far and mucks up other calibrations when I've had to change it later on. Edit: I'll know I've got things nailed when a causal observer can't accurately tell what machine a test part has come from. I feel a coke/pepsi style test with some dissinteredted family members coming up!

This came up a few days ago: https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/9309/dc42-just-thought/3

@rodek said in DC42 Just thought: What is the release date of the Duet3 and smart tool board? Not fixed yet. The second generation Duet 3 main board prototypes are currently being assembled. The smart tool board specification is still being discussed with potential OEM customers.

@dc42 so awesome! Thank you! I understand now. My Duet 2 Wifi should be on it's way sometime soon. Cannot wait!

@ringo1508 said in Thinking about using Duet for new build, but have questions: I also want to experiment with printing taller (in the case of RC planes, being able to print a larger portion with less work after the fact.) Delta printers are good for printing tall parts. But are you sure that you want tall parts, not longer parts? Think carefully about which way you want the layers to run, to get maximum strength in the directions where you need it.

@t3p3tony said in Ethernet and WiFi capabilities combined on one board: @TLAS @Danal the idea is to more the networking and UI onto the SBC so the Duet 3 wont have Networking built into the main board. I expect we will be providing either a SBC or a image to flash onto an SBC as part of the Duet 3 (or possibly both). One of the advantages of splitting them onto separate boards is that you are free to choose a more powerful SBC (with caveats on porting the SPI driver) that means users who want advanced functions like machine vision can have that. Of course this is more expensive than an ESP8266 so thats one of the reasons why the Duet 3 will be more expensive than the Duet 2, at least to start with. Optional Pre-Built board, optional image... sounds like the right way to go-to-market!

@dc42 This is, in fact, a Low-pass filter, a 2nd order one in fact (yeah not necessary) it's just buffered by an opamp, and the current is carried by a MOSFET A different option could be a low-pass with a series-pass transistor. that should be smaller than this board

@noskillzengineer said in Fans and stuff improvements…: In my experience, 4 wire fans have physical switches, likely because of control on the fan itself, that is responsible for the speed control of the fan. I have never used a 4-wire fan with a physical switch. I have 2 of them in the PC that I am using, and some more on the bench that I have tested with various Duet-based controller electronics. PWM is PWM whether it is controlled by hardware alone (which would be very unusual these days) or by software. Why support 4? If your response means 4 pin headers like PC fan headers that will also run two and three fans/motors, then no issues here. There are two problems with controlling the a speed of 3-wire fans: Most of them were never designed to have PWM applied to the power feed to them. You won't find any PCs using PWM to control the power feed to a 3-wire fan. It's remarkable that so many 2- and 3-wire fans tolerate PWM at all. If you PWM the supply to a 3-wire fan then the output from the tacho wire is no longer reliable, because the tacho sensor depends on receiving continuous power. So the tacho reading would be wrong except at full speed. 4-wire fans are designed to work with PWM, so they are a much better choice if you want variable speed and RPM sensing. OTOH we could provide a 3-wire always-on (or just on/off) fan connector if users want that.

@joergs5 ahh, I see what you are going for. All of the controllers I have used in the past with incremental encoders, non absolute, keep track of the position in the controller and increment/decrement the position based on the incoming signals from the encoder. I do like the idea of being able to read the position directly out of the encoder like you can due with the multiturn absolute as it makes doing simple verification of position with steppers easier. If encoder support is something that is implement in a future duet 3 expansion board hopefully it will support both incremental and absolute type encoders to offer the most flexibility

@phaedrux Problems with printer driver? - it's probably a Canon PIXMA