Posts made by Sir_Stig

I have the same board. you blew the voltage regulator. first step: replace the massively oversized fuses they shipped with the board. second step: move the jumper from 5vin to 5vext. then take a usb cable, cut off the connector, and wire the red wire as 5v+, black (in my case I used an old anker powerline cable, and the cable sheath is the conductor with no black wire) wire to negative, and use a usb wall charger that can supply 1A of current at 5v.

I guess I should also ask the question, should I take out any components if I'm planning on just leaving the U3 in there and using external 5V? I don't have access to a hot air station, but I do have a solder gun and could take out some of the larger components to isolate the chip in case there is a risk of a more catastrophic failure down the road...

U3 chip definitely got smoked. The fuses I'm referring to are the mini-blade 1A, 7.5A, and15A fuses, the clone I got shipped with 10A, 15A and 30A instead, but looking at the schematics they all seem to be on the 24V side so likely wouldn't have saved the U3 chip. Currently I have moved the 5V jumper to the external source position and like I said am powering the board via the USB input and a Samsung USB wall charger.

I'm pretty sure it was 5V to ground that did it? I was being a dumb-ass and installing the bl touch while the board was energized, and (stupidly) didn't insulate/tape up the pins while doing so. it was a bit of a shit show initially, I had the ground in the right most 3 pin connector that came with the bl touch, and the wire that should have been on pin 8 (heater3) on the expansion plug was in the left most position (so actually on pin 6, E2_DIR), and while inserting it in said incorrect 2 & 6 pins, it seemed like the retaining spring part of the ground pin exposed on the side of the connector made contact to the 5v pin above it, but maybe it was the pin 6 that did it in, the bl touch is still working fine, but post popping the U3 chip (without noticing I was on pin 6 instead of pin 8 ) I plugged it in after realizing the USB powered it okay and the USB charger enacted it's internal protection at which point I changed it to pin 8.

long story short the 24V components all seem good, the U3 is definitely burnt, but I'm able to have everything work fine with the USB providing power. I am planning on using a hardwired 5Vin, likely using a deconstructed USB charger mainly for the built in OC protection.

Having looked at the schematics it does look like the 7.5A fuse is what feeds the 5V power supply, but am I correct in assuming that this would not have blown in the event of a 5V to GND short, even without double the recommended fuse size installed? I imagine that the 7.5A fuse is there in the event of an overcurrent event happening on the 24V side of the regulator?

So a while back I got a duet wifi clone (don't hate me, I am only just getting into 3d printing and didn't want to jump in too deep off the get-go) and while installing my bl touch did something stupid and shorted the 5VDC to GND on the expansion board.

What I'm not clear at is if there is any fusing that would have protected the 5V converter chip normally (when I looked at the installed fuses they are wildly oversized, I have some properly sized ones that I'll install, and the board still works using USB power). I am in the electrical design field so I'm usually pretty proficient with schematics, but PCB schematics as used in the github repository are a little tricky for me to follow.

Basically I'm wondering if the clone using correct fusing would have changed anything, or if there is no protection in the 5V circuit in the event of a short to ground.

Again, it's a cloned board so don't feel the need to answer if you don't want to, just curious if I should try and get a replacement board out of them or just take my medicine (seriously it's my day job to work around this stuff, it's a little embarrassing to make such a rookie error...) it is real nice that the design allows for external 5VDC input, and I'll be utilizing that once I locate a good sacrifice candidate power supply from my assorted odds and ends.