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    • kmjr20undefined
      kmjr20
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      I started with a TRONXY VEHO 1000 3d priinter that came broken with no warranty from china. I upgraded to a Duet 6HC board and was told it came with all kinds of tech support. I cant get the machine to home, cant get the endstops to work, despite doing it as specified by duet tach manual. I was told to use M119, and it shows no end stops, the mechanical part woks as tested with a multimeter. After multiple tries on this forum to get help, i GUESS THAT WOULD WORK IF i KNEW the PROGRAMMING language. i CANT EVEN FIND A VIDEO OF WHAT THESE COMMANDs DO fully, OR WHAT THE PARAMETERS STAND FOR AFTER THEM. iTS JUST "p" XX, AND ITS DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON THE m OR g COMMAND AND WHICH ONE. aLL THE RESPONSES i GET ARE LINKS TO THE DUET WEBSITE. i KNOW HOW TO READ AND FOLLOWED THE DIRECTIONS TO A T. I am fruatrated and am now thinking about
      GOING TO GO THE THE bigtree tech board. There are plenty of acutal video in great detail and not vague like Duet, and I called them and they actually answer the phone and have information. I have posted 11 times now and still can't get an answer yet, or a link to duet manual other than send me the code, which I have or a message with a link to DUET Manual. It would be nice to have a response other than what I am getting. I feel like I am getting an AI and not a person, because its the same response to each question, send me a file and a link to the duet manual. I have been working on this ow for almost 3 months, and I dont think it should take that long to get help with a product. .

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      • oliofundefined
        oliof @kmjr20
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        @kmjr20 several people replied with the link to docs.duet3d.com and the Getting Started section, so it's not entirely correct that no documentation exists.

        That said, the documentation is quite terse in some section, and it takes a while to get your way around this.

        Setting up endstops is covered here:

        https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/Connecting_hardware/Sensors_endstops

        Personally, I tend to have a printout of the board wiring diagram next to the documentation, since it helps me to make sure I am not looking at things turned upside down and getting confused. The wiring diagram for the Duet3 6HC is at https://docs.duet3d.com/Duet3D_hardware/Duet_3_family/Duet_3_Mainboard_6HC_Hardware_Overview#physical-connections

        make sure to read the wiring notes on endstops just below that image.

        <>RatRig V-Minion Fly Super5Pro RRF<> V-Core 3.1 IDEX k*****r <> RatRig V-Minion SKR 2 Marlin<>

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        • kmjr20undefined
          kmjr20 @oliof
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          @oliof
          `this is not help, you keep referring me to a manual that I have read and done it exactly the way it is written. There are vague instructions that do not explain the paramters,. These are not for people who are new to this. The tech help is suggestions about things I already have done. I ran all the instructions I was asked, M98 P"config.g", and posted the message only to get a response "that shouldn't have been what you get. I did get that message. I ran M119, and it does not find the end stops, and the motors don't stop when homing. Nothing on the board works the way the manual says. I am not a programmer, but I know how to read. SO far, 13 times I have asked in this forum for someone to tell me what I am missing and help me correct it. I keep getting messages with links back to the same manual that does not explain it. I will just post these answers I am getting to PC magazine and purchase the Bigtreetech board, which has numerous videos and tons of tech support for beginners like me.

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          • oliofundefined
            oliof @kmjr20
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            Please be aware the majority of people offering help here in the forum are volunteers, pointing you to the resources that helped them. So vague threats about magazines nobody in my country reads are mostly misplaced. Best Regards, and good luck with your machine!

            <>RatRig V-Minion Fly Super5Pro RRF<> V-Core 3.1 IDEX k*****r <> RatRig V-Minion SKR 2 Marlin<>

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            • droftartsundefined
              droftarts administrators @kmjr20
              last edited by droftarts

              @kmjr20 Please see our forum rules here: https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/20759/forum-rules
              And our guide for posting for help here: https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/5909/guide-for-posting-requests-for-help

              While you may have been working on this for 3 months, your first post was just over two weeks ago. You have created three threads about your issue, all similar, so responses are scattered. Unfortunately, in your 14 posts, which largely complain about TronXY, you have not provided much specific information for us to help you, which is why you are getting generic replies, such as links to the documentation.

              Specific information that has been requested from you:

              • I have asked you a number of times for an M122 report, which will tell us a lot about your Duet board, but you haven't responded to that.
              • I've given you specific feedback on your config.g file (one of the few things you have shared with us), but you seem to have ignored that.
              • You have been asked to post a picture of your wiring, but again that was not forthcoming.
              • I asked for further information after you actually did do something I asked you to do, which would help diagnose the endstop issue, but apparently that's too much for you, too.

              Yes, setting up a 3D printer is complicated, and you're having to learn a whole new, advanced, system and its language, that's matured over 10 years. It's particularly difficult for you, because you are trying to do a custom installation into a printer probably no one else has upgraded, so you have no one to follow. I'm not a programmer either (I am a human, not an AI), but if you take it one section at a time, it will become clearer.

              Unfortunately, your move to a BigTreeTech board (presumably running Marlin firmware, though it won't be any easier in Klipper) isn't going to help you much, because you WILL have to be a programmer, because when you want to customise the settings, you have to modify the firmware and upload it to the board each time. Videos aren't going to help you, because they are not going to be specific to your machine. Videos generally aren't a good way to get programming information across.

              There are vague instructions that do not explain the paramters

              All Gcodes are listed, and their parameters explained, in the Gcode dictionary. Maybe that's what you have missed? See https://docs.duet3d.com/en/User_manual/Reference/Gcodes.

              Note that BigTreeTech boards with Marlin or Klipper firmware also use a lot of these, except have their own subset and variations of commands; see https://reprap.org/wiki/G-code

              Ian

              Cartesian bed-slinger with Duet 3 Mini 5+ WiFi and 1LC : RRP Fisher Delta v1 with Duet 2 Maestro : TronXY X5S with Duet 3 MB6HC and Roto toolboard

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