Duet Maestro Driver Sense Resistor Configuration

laraeb

I noticed the maestro is using external sense resistors, for their stepper motor drivers.

Going back through the TMC2204 datasheet, the driver has an optional internal sense resistor. The datasheet requires a setting --- otp_internalRsense = 0 --- in order to run external sense resistors.

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(snippet from the TMC2204 datasheet)

I'm looking back through 2.02 source code, and find that it might not be set to use external sense resistor

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Pic above in TMC22xx.cpp (.../src/Movement/StepperDrivers). Release: 2.03beta2

Am I misinterpreting something or is the source code setting the driver to using the internal sense resistor?

iratecrayons

This is just selecting the bit in the bitfield and assigning it to a flag called GCONF_INT_RSENSE. It's not setting the value to 1.

Do you see somewhere in the code this flag is used and setting the value to internal?

laraeb

Oh. I see.

The settings of the GCONF register is set right after assigning bit flags.

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So, GCONF_INT_RSENSE is set to zero (since it wasn't called at the DefaultGConfReg = ...). Got it.