@droftarts said in Duet 3 Mini 5+ with Canbus boards.:
Try connecting the CAN wires the other way around. Probably easiest to switch them at the Mini 5+ end.
Wow, really? Perhaps a wiring diagram for the whole setup? Am I asking too much?
I saw absolutely nothing in your documentation about wiring High to Low.
"The Tool Distribution board isn't hard to understand; CAN1_H and CAN1_L connect to the TDB from CAN IN to, initially, Tool 0 connector. It goes out to a toolboard using the Tool 1 pins 3 and 4, and comes back in on pins 1 and 2. These are named CAN_H_0-1 and CAN_L_0-1, to show they connect from tool 0 to tool 1. This is done internally, to pins 4 and 3 of the Tool 1 connector. And so on, to Tool 2 and 3, and to CAN OUT. This keeps the CAN wires as a continuous bus, without the CAN_L or CAN_H wires crossing over, except at the ends of the bus, where it's terminated. You can see this in the wiring schematic:"
If you can parse this into a functional wiring setup, that's great. I, however, cannot. My head is spinning.
Schematic of the wiring, please. I really don't think this is an unreasonable request. Look at what LGO and Bigtreetech are doing with their Type C connector toolboards. If you don't get your setup documented better, they will eat your lunch.
I talked to about 20 people at MRRF about Canbus, they all said it was a pain. Bill Steele, who is a very talented engineer said the only way he could get his working was with an oscilloscope. He told me not only was the i/o and address setup a problem, but that the boards he used had different i/o speeds, which he only detected with the oscilloscope. These were your boards.