Low voltage on Duet 2 Maestro FAN1 and FAN2 ports

clark

Hello everyone,

I'm in the process of upgrading my Ender 3 Pro fans to 12V. I'm using Duet 2 Maestro with firmware 3.1.1 (2020-05-19b2).

I have a buck converter with inputs wired to VIN+ and VIN-. The converter is set up to output 12V and this is verified with multimeter.

I have wired the buck converter OUTPUT+ to both V_FAN_A (jumper middle pin) and V_FAN_B (jumper middle pin). (Same problem existed when I had it only wired to V_FAN_A)

When I power up the machine and start checking the fan ports with multimeter I get the following results:

Always-on-fan 12V (correctly).
FAN0, FAN1 and FAN2 0V (correctly).

After this I heat the hot end to 55 C (fan temperature threshold at 45 C), set the part cooling fan to 100% from DWC and check the ports with multimeter again:

Always-on-fan 12V (correctly)
FAN0 12V (correctly)
FAN1 7V
FAN2 7V

So something is wrong with FAN1 and FAN2 voltage and I can't figure out what it is. Can anyone help?

Phaedrux

Can you post your fan configuration section?

clark

@Phaedrux Sure

; Fans
M950 F0 C"fan0" Q500                               ; create fan 0 on pin fan0 and set its frequency
M106 P0 S0 H-1                                     ; set fan 0 value. Thermostatic control is turned off
M950 F1 C"fan1" Q500                               ; create fan 1 on pin fan1 and set its frequency
M106 P1 S0 H1 T45                                  ; set fan 1 value. Thermostatic control is turned on
M950 F2 C"fan2" Q500                               ; create fan 2 on pin fan2 and set its frequency
M106 P2 S0 H1:0 T45                                ; set fan 2 value. Thermostatic control is turned on

dc42

The reason is the S0 parameters in the M106 commands for your thermostatic fans. When a fan is configured in thermostatic mode, the S parameter is the maximum allowed PWM (to handle fans that are too powerful when run at full PWM). However, RRF forces a minimum PWM of 50% for thermostatic fans.

So either remove the S parameters for those M106 commands, or change them to S1.

clark

@dc42
Thanks a lot! This fixed it.