duet maestro and duex5 exp. board compatible?

reneh

Hello all,

is it possible to connect a duex5 expansion board to an duet maestro board? If not - how can i connect 4 z-stepper motors on a duet maestro board?

Thank you for help.

René

jay_s_uk

@reneh

I believe you can only connect another 2 motors to the maestro.

So I think the short answer is no, you can't connect the duex5 to it and no, you can't connect a further 4 motors to the maestro.

bricor

Maestro Guide:
https://duet3d.dozuki.com/c/Duet_2_Maestro#Section_Compatible_add_on_Hardware

Yeah the Meastro does not have enough pins to control more than the adittional 2 steppers you get with the expansion (another bottleneck might be the MCU in general).

Not sure why the expansion isn't in the link above, or not linked to from the Duet 2 Maestro product page, but there is a guide on the wiki at least. https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Dual_Stepper_Driver_Expansion_Module

edit: may explain: https://forum.duet3d.com/post/51214

bricor

@bearer The Dual Stepper Expansion is listed (pictured) near the top of the page under Related Pages.

Points to https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Dual_Stepper_Driver_Expansion_Module

aidar

And here is link from Duet shop https://www.duet3d.com/DuetAddons/Duet2Maestro2StepExpansion

reneh

Hello all,

this was very helpful.

Thank you
René