@phaedrux I am making a small board that will fit on the hotend and take care of reading the pt100 and turning on the heat sink fan when needed (removing the need for the duet to care about that fan or run wires to it) as well as normalizing the pwm signal for the part cooling fan and bumping up the pwm frequency fed to the fan to something it can deal with and utilizing the tach input from the fan for feedback.
I'd still need to feed the temperature back to the duet and the easiest way would be to send a pwm signal up the thermistor line.
The other pwm input pins were for a different project where I wanted to send force feedback to the duet for a dimensional probing toolhead with a load cell. but we can ignore that for now, I was just hoping a solution for that would fall out of the pwm temp feedback.