Posts made by stellator

Okay, putting the kinematics definition M669 k1 in front of the driver definition helped in that sense that I can now use 4 out of 8 different direction settings for the four motors (which is in line with my expectation because two motors need to be paired always) instead of only one as was the case before (every other combination resulted in stalling motors).

However, following: https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/Machine_configuration/Configuration_coreXY#testing-motor-movement again, I can either swap the directions/polarities of both X and Y axis at the same time or I can swap X for Y but I cannot keep X and Y correct and only change the Y polarity as needed, for my Y endstop is at the high end and the tested heightmap (and hence the future print) is mirrored in Y.

Also, its strange that changing the endstop config from high to low does not affect the direction of the homing move as I would expect (but thats maybe due to the formula I copied from the RepRap configurator:
var xTravel = move.axes[0].max - move.axes[0].min + 5 ; calculate how far X can travel plus 5mm
var yTravel = move.axes[1].max - move.axes[1].min + 5 ; calculate how far Y can travel plus 5mm

I also did put the motors at different ports and tried the same thing again but with the same result, as expected.

Out of ideas right now, or is it because of the four wheel drive Iam using (AWD, four motors, Voron or whatever is the correct synonym for it)?

@o_lampe Thats a good idea! I will try and report..

I just found that the Y axis on my new coreXY is inverted when I was doing my first heightmap measurement (which wasnt all to straight at all).

Looking at the printer from the top, my endstops are at the back left side instead of the front left side as expected per default of RRF.

I have tried all possible configurations of drivers going backwards or forward and endstop being at the min or max end but there is only one configuration that works with all the motor operating in tandem and not against each other but in that configuration the Y axis is flipped relative to the RRF coordinate system.

Wiring (for cable length reasons):
Motor XY 1 goes to Duet2Wifi E0-Stepper
Motor XY 2 goes to Duet2Wifi Y-Stepper
Motor XY 3 goes to Duet2Wifi E1-Stepper
Motor XY 4 goes to Duet2Wifi X-Stepper

Please find my configuration below, do I really have to swap motors on the controller board in order to get orientation right as I understand from some posts?

; Axes
M584 X0.1:0.3 Y0.0:0.4 Z0.5:0.6:0.7 ; set axis mapping
M350 X16 Y16 Z16 I1 ; configure microstepping with interpolation
M906 X2200:2200 Y2200:2200 Z800 ; set axis driver currents
M92 X80 Y80 Z1600 ; configure steps per mm
M208 X0:550 Y0:400 Z0:400 ; set minimum and maximum axis limits
M566 X5000 Y2000 Z100 ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 X10000 Y80000 Z1500 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 X10000 Y6000 Z100 ; set accelerations (mm/s^2)

; Extruders
M584 E0.2 ; set extruder mapping
M350 E16 I1 ; configure microstepping with interpolation
M906 E1000 ; set extruder driver currents
M92 E420 ; configure steps per mm
M566 E120 ; set maximum instantaneous speed changes (mm/min)
M203 E3600 ; set maximum speeds (mm/min)
M201 E250 ; set accelerations (mm/s^2)

; Kinematics
M669 K1 ; configure CoreXY kinematics

; Endstops
M574 X1 P"xstop" S1 ; configure X axis endstop
M574 Y1 P"ystop" S1 ; configure Y axis endstop

; Probes
M558 K0 P1 C"zprobe.in" H5 F120 T6000 ; configure analog probe via slot #0
G31 P200 X0 Y-20 Z0.5 ; set Z probe trigger value, offset and trigger height
M574 Z1 S2 ; Set Z endstop probe
M671 X-38:275:588 Y365:-100:365 S10 ; Z pivot points are at (-15,220), (100,-20) and (215,220)

; Mesh Bed Compensation
M557 X25:525 Y25:375 S80:80 ; define grid for mesh bed compensation

Thanks for your replies, I did not understand from the documentation, that those names like "duex.fan4" etc. are the definitions nowerdays that have to be used rather than just names I can freely choose because in older firmware versions they were defined by M950 P6 e.g.. which was more straight forward than to have to know the dedicated name that allows for even more typos.
I did not stumble across any list that gives me all the RFF 3.5 "names" of all the ports that are available on Duet2wifi / Duex5 in the documentation but I was sure lasy.

However, this is how it works for me now in RFF 3.5x (for both fans and LEDs)

M950 F4 C"duex.fan4" Q500 ;
M950 F5 C"duex.fan5" Q500 ;
M950 F6 C"duex.fan6" Q500 ;
M950 F7 C"duex.fan7" Q500 ;

And this was the way back then in RFF 2.xx or such:

; Fans
M106 P3 S255 ; Cooling fan
M106 P4 S100 L515 B2 R100 ; Hotend fan 4 Thermostatic control to turned on at 50C of Heaters 1 or 2
M106 P5 S0.9 ; Green LED to 30% power
M106 P6 S0.9 ; Blue LED to 30% power
M106 P7 S0.9 ; Red LED to 30% power

But I very much appreciate all those new options you can do in RFF 3.5 so an equivalent amount of complexity is the price one has to pay..

@dc42
Many thanks for your fast response!!

So I just tried
M950 P8 C"duex.fan8" Q500 ;
M42 P8 S1 ;

and

M950 F8 C"duex.fan8" Q500 ;
M106 P8 S1 ;

Both didnt work (I also doublechecked that both my fan and the led stripe work, using my lab power supply)..

I somehow totally forgot that configuring the firmware is, by far, the hardest part of building a 3D printer from the scratch

I had a LED stripe up and running in my previous printer using the Duex5 fan ports 5,6,7, using this code, plain and simple (without even using m950 command) in firmware 2.0X:

; Fans
M106 P3 S255 ; Cooling fan
M106 P4 S100 L515 B2 R100 ; Hotend fan 4 Thermostatic control to turned on at 100C
M106 P5 S0.9 ; Green LED to 90% power
M106 P6 S0.9 ; Blue LED to 90% power
M106 P7 S0.9 ; Red LED to 90% power

After sequential and successfull updating to 3.52 I cannot bring them back to live (they briefly flash upon startup) and I fear I cannot find the information I am missing about how to configure M950 and M106 correctly. Lastly I tried

; LEDs
M950 P8 C"duex.fan8" Q500 ;
M106 P8 S0.9 ; Red LED to 90% power

amongst many other parameters (I found in the documentation but with all the firm-, hard- and software combinations available these days its getting weired and I am afraid not 100% fool proof anymore) but to no success. Does anybody have a functinoal code based on firmware 3.5X? Many thanks!

Hi again, Iam building a new printer using Duet 3 mini 5+ instead of my old Duet 2 wifi.
I like to use the external 5 phase oriental motors again but I find that the Duet 3 mini 5+ only has one "enable" Pin for the "external drivers". I might be lucky since its going to be a core xy so both A and B motors want to be enabled simulatneously at all times but am I correct assuming that Pin 16 is meant to be used as a shared enable Pin - does it work that way?

PS: IS there any easy way to give the Step, Dir, En, signal 5V instead of 3.3V on the Duet 3 mini 5+ (Because one stepper driver is working correctly whilst, when swapping cables, the other driver does not change motor direction although DIP settings are identical. Adding to the confusion, only motor pins 12, 13, 15 assigned as motor 0.6 are functional when using pins 4, 5, 7 assigned as motor 0.5 nothing is moving?! So I speculate that I might be just at the edge of signal detection using 3.3V instead of the recommended 5V-24V resulting in this erratic behaviour?

PPS: Read some posts and manuals meanwhile, seeing that it shopuld be possible to get 5V but is it necessary..?

Thanks for your quick replies!!
And I am glad to hear that the firmware can cope with any geometry as long as I can provide the correct coordinates!

Also I decided to not go for the first version (image 1) but for the maxwell design (image 2) because then the printbed will tilt around the center of the triangle instead of the middle rear axis. I expect any future firmware that might support tilting the bed whilst printing to operate with the center of rotation be equal to the center of the coordinate system X=0 Y=0, at least that would result in the biggest possible print area in a tilting bed scenario. So yes, its intended be "tiltbed ready"

Now lets see how to actually home a core xy and soon it might come alive: Turn both motors in one direction until Y endstop is triggered and then rotate both in opposite directions until X is triggered? Hmm - that should do it...

@stellator Maxwell clamp as reffered to a way of 3 axis print bed levelling

Hi Zusammen, I hope I dont mix up the terms here but nevertheless:

I wonder which geometries are supported by the firmware for autolevelling and mesh compensation since a classic kinematic mount would have the center of rotation/virtual pivoting point at the middle/rear axis, a v-groove at the front left (pointing towards middle rear axis) and an unconstraint plate at the front right axis e.g., whereas with a Maxwell mount, one would have three v-grooves pointing towards the center of the bed, which in turn would be the virtual pivoting point, correct?
In the configuration you can tell the code where you pivoting points are but in a Maxwell situation, everything tilts around the central point and not actually around the three axis pivot points opposite to the situation of a classic kinematic mount so I dont actually know for which situation the code for autolevelling is designed for??

Thanks Frederick! Funny enough I had just chosen channel 7 Lets see if channel one does the trick with only two others users...

Hi Bearer, thanks for the reply! It didnt dimm after M84 or M85 but maybe my PanelDue firmware is too old (1.15c) and updating it seems a pain..

Oh, I added a humidity sensor recently I forgot to say...but else everything remained the same as before the network problem appeared

I have a Duet2 Wifi board running nice and smoothly for a year and have not changed anything but all the sudden, as soon as I turn on the printer, my wifi connection is getting really slow. Sometimes it is hardly possible to browse the internet anymore. It feels as if the Duet is jamming my network by some datastream or very frequent network requests of some kind?? Is there any known issue of some problems with some cache overflow or such ?

This is my current firmware
Firmware Name: RepRapFirmware for Duet 2 WiFi/Ethernet
Firmware Electronics: Duet WiFi 1.0 or 1.01 + DueX5
Firmware Version: 2.04RC1 (2019-07-14b1)
WiFi Server Version: 1.23
Web Interface Version: 1.22.5

Hi, is it possible to turn iff the PanelDue backlight via gcode sleep command e.g.?

Thx

@stellator said in Additional stepper drivers on Duex 5:

Oriental CRD5114P

Dear David, using the Oriental Motor Driver CRD5114P in combination with the five phase Motor PKP569FN2482 I can report that it seems to be working nicely using 3.3V signal as provided by the DuetWifi LCD_Conn Header.

@dc42 said in Additional stepper drivers on Duex 5:

74HCT367

Alright - thanks a lot, especially for the tip of timing!
I wouldnt know how to connect such an IC chip so I will try with 3.3 V first, lets see - I can post it here if 3.3v work with that driver.

Attempting to connect via Conn_LCD I think I should connect the following pins (assuming Duet uses a "current sink output design" and gives "1 puls signals" as they call it in the oriental manual) :

Conn_LCD to Oriental CRD5114P (see image above)

pin 10 ) Step11 to be connected to pin 1) PLS+
pin 2 ) GND to be connected to pin 2) PLS-
pin 8 ) DIR11 to be connected to pin 3) DIR+
pin 2 ) GND to be connected to pin 4) DIR-
pin 6 ) EN11 to be connected to nothing?
pin 4 ) Stop11 to be connected to no clue!

thx

Okay, finally got the drivers from oriental but I am not sure about the nomenclature:

Hi, can I connect two additional external stepper drivers if I am already using a Duex 5 expansion board? I have read that I could use the CONN_LCD connector pins? Is there a description for that somwhere?

Thanks