@Phaedrux

Gotcha! Well as of right now I had rewired all the wires on the BLtouch. And all seems to be working well! It ended up being the 3 wire cable going to power ground and heater 3. I can now home everything correctly. And all seems to be working thus far. Just working on tuning nozzle height and position with the BLtouch a bit closer. And then I'm going to try to heat up the nozzle and try kicking out some filament before I start calibrating the extruder and making sure everything is dialed in correctly.

Thank you guys for your help. I would not have figured it out without. Very much appreciated.

@fcwilt

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense now. Thank you. You guys have been super helpful. I just closed about 30 tabs since those questions have been solved for me. haha

I am now trying to see if I can get the probe to work. I am googling how to change the mesh grid(?) when it probes. I noticed when it first tried to probe it wasn't quite on the bed. I am assuming its coordinates on the m557 line. Still searching. The other thing I have to find is why it doesn't deploy the probe when it starts homing. It is lit up, it will kick in and out when I turn the printer on. But I need to find what I change to make it deploy when it goes to home.

Ah, gotcha! It all makes sense now. Thank you for explaining it to me. Very much appreciated again!

Ah, gotcha! It all makes sense now. Thank you for explaining it to me. Very much appreciated again!

Well this is why I asked cause I did't understand I guess. And I could have been getting confused between those. But realistically I guess I just didn't understand that part of the board. But I believe I understand now for the most part. So the jumper can either be 5v/ V_fan supplied by the board. Or V_fan/VIN which would be 24v supplied for the power supply. As for the other jumpers, I still don't quite understand. But I assume they are irrelevant since I'm getting power through VIN and not 5v?

Also sorry I also wasn't too clear earlier too. I was referencing the duet wiki. Jumping back and forth between the wiki, and the diagram of the board. I also realize i quoted the line under it which added the two banks part. But still basically gives the same information.

This is why I thought the two always on fans would be different (external power), and the other three would be determined from the jumper. But I was mistaken.

I just want to make sure I properly supply them with 24v and have everything hooked up correctly is all. Just trying to learn it and figure it out best I can. Without messing stuff up. Some things I can be a little slow to learn, others I catch on right away. This I seemed to reread over and just not grasp it.

I think you summed it up pretty well for me actually. Sorry if I was confusing. I was getting wound up in the supplied voltages. And using the jumper pins. I think I was over thinking it. I couldn't figure out in my head what vin was, but after you wrote it out I think I got it. And seems clear. Its either 5v or vin(24v). I got caught up in the "supported voltages (5V / VIN / external power, in 2 banks)". For some reason I was thrown off about it. But now I realize the external power, in 2 banks is the always on fans. As long as I have the jumper set to vin I should be alright to hook up 24v fans in the pwm slots. Thank you for clearing that up for me, I feel dumb asking that now. Even re reading the wiki makes more sense to me now.

@Phaedrux
@fcwilt

Hey guys, had a simple question about wiring cooling fans to the duet. Pretty basic but I cant find a definite answer and just want to be sure before I go ahead. Instead of making a new thread ill just post here.

I have printed some things for my widow. I'm looking to hook up a couple print cooling fans. I cant find an explanation on how to wire it up. I don't get the whole, 5v, VIN?, and external. I understand external being the power supply. Which is 24v. And 5v is basic 5v. I cant seem to find an answer from the wiki or the forum what vin is. Is it as simple as plug and play and then change some config files? I have two fans I'd like to hook up, and then get going. Which are both 24v. But I don't want to just hook them up and have something not right and short the board. Also I cant tell if they are pwm or not, or if you can even get 24v pwm. That's another thing I cant figure out. Its easy to find 12v everything, but 24v seems harder to sort through. I guess you can say I'm hesitant until I can find a proper answer. Possibly overthinking it. Thanks again.

@Phaedrux

Gotcha! Well as of right now I had rewired all the wires on the BLtouch. And all seems to be working well! It ended up being the 3 wire cable going to power ground and heater 3. I can now home everything correctly. And all seems to be working thus far. Just working on tuning nozzle height and position with the BLtouch a bit closer. And then I'm going to try to heat up the nozzle and try kicking out some filament before I start calibrating the extruder and making sure everything is dialed in correctly.

Thank you guys for your help. I would not have figured it out without. Very much appreciated.

@Phaedrux
@fcwilt

So after supper here I took the BLtouch off, and plugged the white and black directly to the board, and then I took the extension cable out and am just using the one cable going to 5v, gnd, and heater3. But I noticed now when I power on the board now. It still probes in and out. But now the red light on the BLtouch is blinking? M401/402 still doesnt work. Does this mean it could be a wiring issue? Also I don't know if it matters but I just have it sitting on the control box upside down since the white and black are pretty short.

To edit what I just typed. Instead of erasing, so you can see whats going on. I turned power off. Just rotated the bl touch to point down. Turned power back on. It did its probe thing. I entered 401 and it probed out. And m402 probed in. Glad to see it working. So initially it must be a wiring thing like you guys mentioned. But I also ask for the sake of it could the orientation of the bltouch have anything to do with the blinking or what not? Having it upside down?

@fcwilt
@Phaedrux

I have tried all 3 of those commands for it not to do anything. Just gives me a good green signal at the bottom. I will double check that connection.

Sending m280 commands also leads to nothing moving, just a green bar with it in console.
I did change that pin name to exp.heater3.

FIRMWARE_NAME: RepRapFirmware for Duet 2 WiFi/Ethernet FIRMWARE_VERSION: 3.1.1 ELECTRONICS: Duet WiFi 1.02 or later FIRMWARE_DATE: 2020-05-19b2

M98 p"config.g"
HTTP is enabled on port 80
FTP is disabled
TELNET is disabled
Warning: Heater 0 appears to be over-powered. If left on at full power, its temperature is predicted to reach 365C
Warning: Heater 0 appears to be over-powered. If left on at full power, its temperature is predicted to reach 203C

Ill try to figure out a photo of the wiring here. Hopefully it works.

@fcwilt
Hello,

Yes I do have it connected to the 50 pin expansion. 1) +5v 2)GND 8)Heater3 and then connected to zprobe pins: z probe in and ground. Basically just how the wiki shows. I am using duet 2 board.

Ok reading that, and going back a bit here. Before I can test and calibrate I believe I need to get the probe to retract properly first. I do have both of those macro files in /sys. When I send m401 and m402 nothing seems to happen. Same if I send M280 P0 S10. When I first supply power to the board turning the printer on the probe will deploy and retract twice.
I read through the BLtouch wiki a couple times now, but I believe we covered most of that here already, the labeling for the BLtouch and whatnot. I'm not sure where to look next. Aside from my probe in/out files. Do I need an additional m280 code in the config.g file?

@Phaedrux

Ok, in relation to that. Do I use how far the probe is from the nozzle? or Nozzle from the probe?
Example: I used
G31 P500 X24.1 Y21.4 Z-4.5 ; set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height. The probe being closer to the front of the nozzle(+), and to the right (+).

Edit, I just seen the link you added after I replied, reading through that now.