Shorted fan wire on the Smart Effector
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So I’ve has a bit of a catastrophic event.
The one of the wires from the heat sink fan came lose where it connects to the Duet Smart Effector (v2) and shorted on the other one.
There was a spark at the fan connector, but I can’t smell anything at the board or effector, but now none of the fans including the hot end fan, parts fan, and the cooling fans for the Duet 2 Wifi work. The probe isn’t registering either. I basically get nothing from the effector (the LED lighting though stopped working about a week after I installed the effector).
The board still connects to wifi, and I can get the system to home upwards (to the end stops, which also seem to be working fine). Obviously if the effector is dead, I can deal with that, but the fact that the fan on the Duet 2 Wifi is also not working is concerning.
So my question - any ideas what I have broken? This is my first printer I have built with a duet 2 wifi and smart effector, so I’m not super familiar with the hardware, but not totally unfamiliar with printer and other electronics (its not my speciality, but I can solder if I have to).
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@mediaxyz which version of the the duet 2 wifi do you have? newer ones have a fuse for the fans so I would be checking that first
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Thanks for the advice.
Even though this Duet 2 Wifi card is pretty old (having come to me out of a different printer that was headed to the scrapheap), it seems to be new enough to have a fan fuse.
Although it looked ok, putting my multimeter across the fuse blades showed it is kaput.
I’ll swap it out and see how we go.
Thanks again
