Missing Steps - Cant Print SpreadCycle StealthChop tuning help

fulg

I was unable to contribute to the troubleshooting efforts due to a missing board, but now that I have one again I just wanted to confirm that 3.3b3 has also completely solved this issue for me.

Thank you @dc42 for sticking with the thread, which often wandered outside of the subject at hand

Cheers,
Ben.

carcamerarig

@fulg Well done, I think most issues have been resolved in this release which pretty cool eh. Not had a spare moment to print anything yet, hoping I will later tonight.

MartinNYHC

Just replaced a Duet 2 Wifi with a Mini 5 and upgraded to 3.3-rc1. Nothin else changed on the printer. Unfortunately it looks like i still have this issue. As described above after a "bang" there's a layer shift. Any ideas please?

; General preferences
G90                                                    ; send absolute coordinates...
M83                                                    ; ...but relative extruder moves
M550 P"Voron0"                                         ; set printer name
M669 K1                                                ; select CoreXY mode

; Drives
M569 P0.0 S1 D3 V0	                                   ; physical drive 0 goes forwards
M569 P0.1 S1 D3 V0
M569 P0.2 S0	                                      ; physical drive 2 goes forwards
M569 P0.3 S0                                            ; physical drive 3 goes forwards
M584 X0.0 Y0.1 Z0.2 E0.3                                       ; set drive mapping
M350 X16 Y16 Z16 E16 I1    	                           ; configure microstepping with interpolation

M92 X80.00 Y80.00 Z320.00 E711.97  		               ; set steps per mm
M566 X600.00 Y600.00 Z50.00 E2000.00    		       ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X20000.00 Y20000.00 Z1000.00 E5000.00      	   ; set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X2000.00 Y2000.00 Z200.00 E1000.00	               ; set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M906 X400 Y400 Z600 E400 I75	                       ; set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent
M84 S120                                               ; Set idle timeout
M572 D0 S0.061										   ; Pressure advance


; Axis Limits
M208 X3 Y3 Z0 S1                                       ; set axis minima
M208 X118 Y118 Z110 S0                                 ; set axis maxima

; Endstops
M574 X2 S1 P"io1.in"                    				; configure active-high endstop for high end on X via pin io1.in
M574 Y2 S1 P"io2.in"                    				; configure active-high endstop for high end on Y via pin io2.in
M574 Z1 S1 P"io3.in"                    				; configure active-high endstop for high end on Z via pin io3.in

; Heaters
M308 S0 P"temp0" Y"thermistor" T100000 B4092       		; configure sensor 0 as PT1000 on pin temp0
M950 H0 C"out1" T0                      				; create bed heater output on out0 and map it to sensor 0
M307 H0 B0 S1.00                        				; disable bang-bang mode for the bed heater and set PWM limit
M140 H0                                 				; map heated bed to heater 0
M143 H0 S120                            				; set temperature limit for heater 0 to 120C
M308 S1 P"temp1" Y"thermistor" T100000 B3950        	; configure sensor 1 as PT1000 on pin temp1
M950 H1 C"out2" T1                      				; create nozzle heater output on out1 and map it to sensor 1
M307 H1 B0 S1.00                        				; disable bang-bang mode for heater  and set PWM limit
M143 H1 S280                            				; set temperature limit for heater 1
M308 S2 P"temp2" A"Chamber" Y"thermistor" T100000 B3950

; Fans
M950 F0 C"out3" Q500                    				; create fan 0 on pin out3 and set its frequency
M106 P0 C"Bed" S0 H-1                          				; set fan 0 value. Thermostatic control is turned off
M950 F1 C"out4" Q2000                    				; create fan 1 on pin out4 and set its frequency
M106 P1 C"Hotend" L0.70 X0.70 H1 T70 S0.70 B5           ; set fan 1 value. Thermostatic control is turned on
M950 F2 C"out5"							 			   ; create fan 2 on pin fan2
M106 P2 C"Chamber" S0 H-1								   ; set fan 2 name and values
M950 F3 C"out6"							 			   ; create fan 2 on pin fan2
M106 P3 C"Light" S1 H-1								   ; set fan 2 name and values

; Tools
M563 P0 D0 H1 F0                                       ; define tool 0
G10 P0 X0 Y0 Z0                                        ; set tool 0 axis offsets
G10 P0 R0 S0                                           ; set initial tool 0 active and standby temperatures to 0C

; Miscellaneous
M575 P1 S0 B57600                                      ; enable support for PanelDue
M501
T0                                                     ; select first tool

05/05/2021, 11:22:32 	M122
=== Diagnostics ===
RepRapFirmware for Duet 3 Mini 5+ version 3.3RC1 (2021-05-01 09:59:28) running on Duet 3 Mini5plus Ethernet (SBC mode)
Board ID: J4FFG-A196U-D65J0-40KM4-MG03Z-HG970
Used output buffers: 1 of 40 (40 max)
=== RTOS ===
Static ram: 102476
Dynamic ram: 92820 of which 0 recycled
Never used RAM 45552, free system stack 114 words
Tasks: SBC(resourceWait:,4.2%,294) HEAT(delaying,0.0%,320) Move(notifyWait,0.4%,276) CanReceiv(notifyWait,0.0%,943) CanSender(notifyWait,0.0%,357) CanClock(delaying,0.0%,341) TMC(notifyWait,0.7%,114) MAIN(running,93.9%,497) IDLE(ready,0.0%,29) AIN(delaying,0.8%,264), total 100.0%
Owned mutexes: HTTP(MAIN)
=== Platform ===
Last reset 00:39:02 ago, cause: power up
Last software reset at 2021-05-05 09:54, reason: User, none spinning, available RAM 51896, slot 1
Software reset code 0x0012 HFSR 0x00000000 CFSR 0x00000000 ICSR 0x0400f000 BFAR 0xe000ed38 SP 0x00000000 Task Linu Freestk 0 n/a
Error status: 0x04
Aux0 errors 0,0,0
Aux1 errors 0,0,0
MCU revision 3, ADC conversions started 2342835, completed 2342835, timed out 0, errs 0
Step timer max interval 1490
MCU temperature: min 37.7, current 43.2, max 43.7
Supply voltage: min 23.7, current 24.3, max 24.4, under voltage events: 0, over voltage events: 0, power good: yes
Heap OK, handles allocated/used 99/0, heap memory allocated/used/recyclable 2048/8/8, gc cycles 0
Driver 0: position 8800, standstill, SG min/max 0/436, read errors 0, write errors 0, ifcnt 20, reads 57528, writes 20, timeouts 0, DMA errors 0
Driver 1: position -7200, standstill, SG min/max 0/434, read errors 0, write errors 0, ifcnt 20, reads 57528, writes 20, timeouts 0, DMA errors 0
Driver 2: position 4224, standstill, SG min/max 0/10, read errors 0, write errors 0, ifcnt 18, reads 57530, writes 18, timeouts 0, DMA errors 0
Driver 3: position 0, standstill, SG min/max 0/44, read errors 0, write errors 0, ifcnt 16, reads 57531, writes 16, timeouts 0, DMA errors 0
Driver 4: position 0, standstill, SG min/max 0/0, read errors 0, write errors 0, ifcnt 9, reads 57539, writes 9, timeouts 0, DMA errors 0
Driver 5: position 0, assumed not present
Driver 6: position 0, assumed not present
Date/time: 2021-05-05 11:22:31
Cache data hit count 3725941281
Slowest loop: 158.94ms; fastest: 0.10ms
=== Storage ===
Free file entries: 10
SD card 0 not detected, interface speed: 0.0MBytes/sec
SD card longest read time 0.0ms, write time 0.0ms, max retries 0
=== Move ===
DMs created 83, maxWait 139363ms, bed compensation in use: none, comp offset 0.000
=== MainDDARing ===
Scheduled moves 26047, completed moves 26047, hiccups 0, stepErrors 0, LaErrors 0, Underruns [0, 0, 33], CDDA state -1
=== AuxDDARing ===
Scheduled moves 0, completed moves 0, hiccups 0, stepErrors 0, LaErrors 0, Underruns [0, 0, 0], CDDA state -1
=== Heat ===
Bed heaters = 0 -1, chamberHeaters = -1 -1
=== GCodes ===
Segments left: 0
Movement lock held by null
HTTP* is doing "M122" in state(s) 0
Telnet is idle in state(s) 0
File* is idle in state(s) 0
USB is idle in state(s) 0
Aux is idle in state(s) 0
Trigger* is idle in state(s) 0
Queue* is idle in state(s) 0
LCD is idle in state(s) 0
SBC is idle in state(s) 0
Daemon is idle in state(s) 0
Aux2 is idle in state(s) 0
Autopause is idle in state(s) 0
Code queue is empty.
=== CAN ===
Messages queued 20985, send timeouts 20982, received 0, lost 0, longest wait 0ms for reply type 0, peak Tx sync delay 0, free buffers 17 (min 17)
Last cancelled message type 4514 dest 127
=== SBC interface ===
State: 4, failed transfers: 0
Last transfer: 4ms ago
RX/TX seq numbers: 36438/36438
SPI underruns 0, overruns 0
Number of disconnects: 0, IAP RAM available 0x10c34
Buffer RX/TX: 0/0-0
=== Duet Control Server ===
Duet Control Server v3.3-rc1
Code buffer space: 4096
Configured SPI speed: 8000000 Hz
Full transfers per second: 44.04
Codes per second: 19.47
Maximum length of RX/TX data transfers: 3460/1300

dc42

@martinnyhc I suspect that your high maximum speeds (20000 mm/min in M203) are not compatible with running permanently in stealthChop mode. stealthChop doesn't work when the driver supply voltage is too low to overcome the inductive and rotational back emf of the motor. You can use the back EMF calculator at https://www.reprapfirmware.org/ to get an estimate of the speed at which this will occur.

MartinNYHC

@dc42 Used the calculator and used some conserative settings:

M92 X80.00 Y80.00 Z320.00 E711.97  		               ; set steps per mm
M566 X600.00 Y600.00 Z50.00 E2000.00    		       ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X8000.00 Y8000.00 Z1000.00 E5000.00 	     	   ; set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X2000.00 Y2000.00 Z200.00 E1000.00	               ; set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M906 X400 Y400 Z600 E400 I75	                       ; set motor currents (mA) and motor idle factor in per cent
M84 S120                                               ; Set idle timeout
M572 D0 S0.061										   ; Pressure advance

The result is better in terms of the amount of layer shifts. But it still happened two times during the print. With the Duet 2 Wifi I never configured any Stealthchop/Spreadcycle settings but due to the other drivers on the Mini 5 I had to because steppers sounded terrible.

Is there anything else I can try? Thanks for your help in advance.

droftarts

@martinnyhc said in Missing Steps - Cant Print SpreadCycle StealthChop tuning help:

With the Duet 2 Wifi I never configured any Stealthchop/Spreadcycle settings

That's because the TMC2660 driver chips on Duet 2 WiFi only have spreadcycle.

Most noticeable for noise is spreadcycle at standstill. To test if your missed steps are an issue with stealthchop, you can set the drivers to spreadcycle only when moving, and stealthchop when the are stationary. To do this, set the V parameter in M569 for X and Y to a relatively high number, something like V2000, then send M569 P0 and check the 'tpwmthrs' response. When I do this, I get 'tpwmthrs 2000 (2.3 mm/sec)', but it depends on your microstepping and steps per mm. Adjust the V parameter until it is somewhere between 5 and 10mm/s. Use this speed as it's below your M566 instantaneous speed setting of X600 Y600 (which is 10mm/s).

Alternatively, switch it to spreadcycle for a test with M569 P# D2 (where # is the driver number).

Ian

MartinNYHC

@droftarts Already tried D2. The problem is that as soon as I use D2 or D3 without a V value or V higher than 0 both steppers are sound like they are going to explode in a few seconds. And beside of that i cannot get rid of the layer shifts completely.

droftarts

@martinnyhc What steppers are you using on X and Y?

Ian

MartinNYHC

@droftarts 14HS17-0504S

droftarts

@martinnyhc These? https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/nema-14-bipolar-1-8deg-23ncm-32-6oz-in-0-5a-7-5v-35x35x42mm-4-wires.html

The inductance and phase resistance strike me as being very high:
Phase Resistance: 15ohms
Inductance : 26mH ± 20%(1KHz)

High inductance is usually bad for high speed; see https://duet3d.dozuki.com/Wiki/Choosing_and_connecting_stepper_motors#Section_Inductance
When the bangs happen, is it during fast travel moves? But your Duet 2 coped fine with the same settings?

If yes, I think @dc42 will need to take a deeper look at this.

Ian

MartinNYHC

@droftarts It is my "small printer" which is a Voron0 and these steppers are standard for the printer. I'm not really printing fast currently. Max 60mm/s and yes, with the Duet 2 and the same settings everthing was fine. Don't changed anything else except changing the board.

MartinNYHC

Oh yes....and I added a SBC. That's the reason why i changed the board

In the meantime I checked for mechanical issues once again but all seems to be fine.

Why did I touch a running system when I really need to print a lot of stuff. Damn.....

MartinNYHC

To isolate the problem I now disconnected the SBC and tried in standalone mode. Nothing changed.

droftarts

@martinnyhc you’ve got some long SD card read times in your M122 reports, which I assume were taken during printing:

SD card longest read time 99.5ms

This was caused by the bed heater PWM duty cycle last time. @dc42 had a firmware version with some extra diagnostics to track this down, by showing the percentage of time each task in the M122 report was taking. It might be needed again to track down this issue.

Ian

MartinNYHC

@droftarts Ok...wait...i'm running the SBC via network file system. But...I don't think that this could be the problem. If I run either in standaone or SBC mode nothing changes. Right?

And if there would be a data latency then I would see also other effects.

dc42

@martinnyhc said in Missing Steps - Cant Print SpreadCycle StealthChop tuning help:

@droftarts 14HS17-0504S

Those are a terrible choice of motors for a 3D printer. I am very surprised that the Voron design page suggests them. IMO they have made a big mistake. With such a high inductance, it is not at all surprising that the TMC2209 drivers are having problems driving them quietly in spreadCycle mode. I am surprised that the TMC2660 drivers on the Duet WiFi didn't have trouble with them too. The Voron 2 design recommends completely different stepper motors with lower inductance, so it is not comparable.

Even the kit of Voron 0 motors I found at https://hobby-store.co.uk/stepper-motors/nema-14-stepper-motor-kit-for-voron-0.html had better motors then that (14mH, almost 50% lower inductance).

I presume you are supplying 24V power to the Duet 3 Mini. With those motors, you have no hope at all at 12V.

In your homing sequence, are you executing the correct stealthChop tuning procedure?

If you are already executing the correct tuning procedure, then here are some suggestions:

Reduce the maximum speed further, e.g. to 6000mm/min.
It's possible that you may be able to make spreadCycle mode quieter by adjusting the hysteresis parameters.
Try to find another Voron 0 user with the same motors as you and TMC2209 drivers, who isn't having problems with them. Find out what speed and accelerations settings they are using, also the TMC2209 register settings. Then replicate those settings.
Failing that, change the motors for higher current/lower inductance ones.

fulg

@dc42 said in Missing Steps - Cant Print SpreadCycle StealthChop tuning help:

Those are a terrible choice of motors for a 3D printer. I am very surprised that the Voron design page suggests them.

For what it's worth, the current recommendation for Voron 0 steppers is 14HS20-1504S which are much better at 3.8mH. The old motors work fine on a Duet2 Maestro but only in Stealthchop mode, they sound awful in Spreadcycle (now I know why!). I don't believe there were many choices commonly available when the printer was designed.

pkos

This was the default config for V0's back when they were announced over a year ago.

Now the 0.1 was announced and steppers got upgraded to a bigger version (35STH48-1684AHVRN).

That said, the default config assumed using an SKR E3 mini that was running 2209s. @MartinNYHC - try checking the default config for the SKR on voron's github. I've been using that combo of SKR E3 mini v1.2 with those exact steppers - it worked I did have to bring stealthchop_threshold down to 0 to make them quiet, but otherwise, the printer worked just fine.

Maybe that would give you some starting points for the setup on a duet. I'll be in the same boat soon once I get to the rebuilding part of my V0

MartinNYHC

OK, did a lot of tests and the only settings without layer shifts is

M569 P0|1 D3

Steppers are quite loud but at least it's working. Will order some new steppers.

sinole

I dont know if it helps but I am installing reprap on a SKR2 board with tmc 2209 and I have same issue, specially on my bed which runs on a 0.9 degree motor, beside m extrusions are not consistence either. you guessed it right, there is a 0.9 degree motor on extruder. now good thing about SKR 2 is that I can go back and fort with marlin and reprap and compare. this is definitely firmware issue. Reprap runs these motors much quitter and cooler while marlin runs warm and a little noisy. but marlin runs very solid and sound is not really that bad. this tells me reprap and marlin use different pwm settings on stealthchop and marlin made some sacrifice in noise to gain some stability.