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Success! After restarting the printer, I was also getting errors "G90: Probe was not triggered during probing move" after it finished its homing moves. I looked in homeall.z and it ended in a G90. That really shouldn't have impacted it so I commented it out and ran it again. This time, no errors. To test it again, I removed the ; to comment it out and it still ran fine. No errors. Go figure. I am now able to get it to home properly, do a 4 motor gantry level and run mesh compensation. Mesh compensation takes forever now because it probes the bed twice at each point and, over a 400mm square bed, that takes a lot of time. I'll tweak its settings.

Thanks all for the help. This forum is one of the best out there for solving issues.

I'm posting this in hopes someone else will learn from my trials.

I have a home designed and built Prusa i3 derivative using aluminum extrusions for rigidity. As such, it has dual Z motors.

I had been trying to get the auto dual Z leveling working and just kept getting errors or each time I tried, the bed would get more out of level. I disabled it for a while in frustration.

Tonight, I went back to look at it again. Same results. The bed would just get more unlevel every time. I was just sitting staring at it and it finally hit me what was wrong. My dual Z motors are run off separate drivers (Drivers 2 and 4), not ganged together in the dual Z plug (Drivers 2 and B). When I built it, I paid no attention to which motor was in 2 and which was in 4. Many of you will just say "DUH!" but, again, I'm hoping this helps someone out. I had them reversed between 2 and 4. The software was working but sending the correction to the opposite motor, therefore making it worse. Face palm. I reversed them and all is well now and auto Z leveling works great.

@jay_s_uk OK, that explains it. Thanks

As far as the rest go, I feel really stupid now. Out3 and Out4 are fine. Somewhere along the way in testing, I must have confused the two connectors and I was testing with the lead which I believed to be the part fan. It was not. It was the lead going to the disconnected hotend fan. Dumb! I made an assumption and it bit me. That and the misunderstanding about "Tool Fan" led me down the wrong path.

I've looked around the online documentation and did a search of the forum but can't find the answer to this. What does the "Enable Auto-Sleep" function do?

Thanks

OK, Got it. I figured it was a "I'm on a Mac" thing. Instead of just downloading the file, I right-click on the download link and did a "save As". It downloaded it with a longer name and that zip file worked fine.

Found the files from Duet. I was in the instructions and found you have to click on the "kit" instructions. They are in there. I'll print out the factory version and go from there using the dimensions there.

Thanks. Maybe I can figure out how to have it turn itself off.

@jay_s_uk said in Toolboard 1LC connectors and tool?:

@SpeedyDad https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/Troubleshooting/Parts#connectors-used-on-duet-3-toolboard-1lc

Ya know, I read that area and it just didn't communicate to my brain. LOL. Thanks.

@jay_s_uk Yup, that was it. Thanks! It's odd. I can't recall ever changing that but it is possible.

I actually figured out my problem. I have a couple crimping tools I use for RC stuff (servo wires, etc). Nice ratcheting ones. When I would crimp the wire, the wire would break where the insulation was crimped. After looking at it, I found the long legs of the connector itself that are supposed to crimp the wire insulation was curling in on itself and cutting the wire. My remedy was to cut the little legs shorter. No problems now.