Zortrax M200 Duet Conversion
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13 Ohms at 24V would equate to 44W so that sounds right
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So here it is, all set up for preliminary testing.
Obviously I'll be prettying it up much more before it's finished, but I'll leave it as is until I'm sure there's nothing that needs redoing (like the IR sensor wires that are cut too short and pulled straight across the board).
Now I face the problem I've mentioned previously in that I can only just turn a computer on, and have simply no idea what people are talking about when referring to programming, and have struggled with the reference material even.
I'm hoping to fall on the mercy of the people here regarding that, and I'll share all printed files and tips I learn here for other Zortrax owners who might want to try this.
Can the experts please cast an eye over my connections and see if there's any glaring mistakes?
I've assumed I've got a version 1 board (?) and used the diagram supplied on the site.
Cheers,
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And I'm struggling….
I've downloaded Pronterface, all good.
I download the duet.inf and duetinf.cat files in what I think is raw, and save them to a folder on my desktop called "duet software".
I plug the USB lead into my computer and open my device manager to see "Duet" under other devices.
When I try to update drivers I refer it to my "duet software" (it won't open the folder) and it doesn't work.
Can anyone help me in baby steps please?
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So here it is, all set up for preliminary testing.
Obviously I'll be prettying it up much more before it's finished, but I'll leave it as is until I'm sure there's nothing that needs redoing (like the IR sensor wires that are cut too short and pulled straight across the board).
Now I face the problem I've mentioned previously in that I can only just turn a computer on, and have simply no idea what people are talking about when referring to programming, and have struggled with the reference material even.
I'm hoping to fall on the mercy of the people here regarding that, and I'll share all printed files and tips I learn here for other Zortrax owners who might want to try this.
Can the experts please cast an eye over my connections and see if there's any glaring mistakes?
I've assumed I've got a version 1 board (?) and used the diagram supplied on the site.
Cheers,
Yes you have a version 1 board because it has the blue solder resist.
You appear to have the ribbon cable plugged into the wrong connector on the Duet. It should plug in to the connector labelled CONN_SD. I didn't spot anything else wrong.
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And I'm struggling….
I've downloaded Pronterface, all good.
I download the duet.inf and duetinf.cat files in what I think is raw, and save them to a folder on my desktop called "duet software".
I plug the USB lead into my computer and open my device manager to see "Duet" under other devices.
When I try to update drivers I refer it to my "duet software" (it won't open the folder) and it doesn't work.
Can anyone help me in baby steps please?
Try downloading the while repository as a zip file, then extract the two files from that.
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Thank you that worked.
I'm now all connected to my wifi etc, and am looking at the Duet console on my computer.
The final step in the "getting connected" section was that I had to go to settings/configuration file, then "un-comment the M552 S1 command in config.g file so that the WiFi interface is enabled at startup."
Problem is that when I go to settings there is no configuration file tab, and I'm a little unsure what "un commenting" entails.
If I could get that done tonight I'm assuming I can turn it all on tomorrow and move onto setting it up/auto calibrating?
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Put the SD card in your computer and edit config.g in the sys folder.
Uncommenting means remove the colon from the start of the line ;
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Put the SD card in your computer and edit config.g in the sys folder.
Uncommenting means remove the colon from the start of the line ;
You mean I remove the micro SD card from the Duetwifi and put it in my computers drive to do that?
It mentioned doing it from the online console, but as mentioned I can't see how
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Put the SD card in your computer and edit config.g in the sys folder.
Uncommenting means remove the colon from the start of the line ;
You mean I remove the micro SD card from the Duetwifi and put it in my computers drive to do that?
It mentioned doing it from the online console, but as mentioned I can't see how.
** I tried doing it that way and my computer couldn't open the files**
I did it in the console…settings/system editor/config.g, and it stopped Pronterface from connecting to the printer. Put it back as was and it worked again.
Bit stuck on what I'm doing here
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You can edit the config.g from within the web interface - no need to remove the sd card. Go to "Settings" then click on the tab "System Editor" and you'll see a list of files, one of which will be your config.g. Click the green pencil icon next to it to edit it. Make the changes and hit "Save Changes" in the bottom right hand corner. DWC will then ask if you want to do a software reset - hit yes. (As it's config'g it only gets read when you first start up or do a reset).
HTH
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The "Configuration File" tab in DWC has been replaced by "System Editor". I'll update the wiki instructions.
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The "Configuration File" tab in DWC has been replaced by "System Editor". I'll update the wiki instructions.
Thank you.
Problem I'm having is that once I un-comment M552 S1, the Duet will no longer connect via Pronterface. As soon as I put the semi colon back it works again.
Any suggestions there please?
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If you connect via Pronterface, are you then able to send M552 S1 and continue communicating using both Pronterface and WiFi?
Bear in mind that when you click "Apply settings" and accept the invitation to reboot the Duet, the USB port will be closed and then re-created. Pronterface won't reconnect automatically, so you need press Disconnect and then Connect in Pronterface to re-establish the link.
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If you connect via Pronterface, are you then able to send M552 S1 and continue communicating using both Pronterface and WiFi?
Bear in mind that when you click "Apply settings" and accept the invitation to reboot the Duet, the USB port will be closed and then re-created. Pronterface won't reconnect automatically, so you need press Disconnect and then Connect in Pronterface to re-establish the link.
It seems I am connected via the Duet interface, it shows a bed temp that is roughly room temp and can be disconnected and reconnected.
When I open Pronterface and press connect I get:
Connecting…
[ERROR] Could not connect to COM10 at baudrate 115200:
Serial error: could not open port COM10: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified.If I send M552 S1 I get:
M552 S1
[ERROR] Printer is not online.Doing my best here but it's way outside my skill set. Spelled out simply would be a great help and thanks in advance.
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I don't think the failure of Pronterface to connect is caused by enabling netwoking. I think it's caused by the USB port being reset when the Duet resets after you apply the new settings.
Which version of Windows are you using? I remember that when I was using Windows 7, I found that after resetting the Duet, Pronterface would refuse to connect because Windows thought the port was still busy. Pressing Disconnect in Pronterface before resetting the Duet avoided the problem. When I forgot to do this, I had to exit and reload Pronterface to get connected again. Sometimes I also had to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable. The problems went away when I upgraded to Windows 10 (I think this is the only benefit I got from the upgrade).
Once you have the web interface working, you shouldn't need to use Pronterface anyway.
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I don't think the failure of Pronterface to connect is caused by enabling netwoking. I think it's caused by the USB port being reset when the Duet resets after you apply the new settings.
Which version of Windows are you using? I remember that when I was using Windows 7, I found that after resetting the Duet, Pronterface would refuse to connect because Windows thought the port was still busy. Pressing Disconnect in Pronterface before resetting the Duet avoided the problem. When I forgot to do this, I had to exit and reload Pronterface to get connected again. Sometimes I also had to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable. The problems went away when I upgraded to Windows 10 (I think this is the only benefit I got from the upgrade).
Once you have the web interface working, you shouldn't need to use Pronterface anyway.
Thanks David.
I am using Windows 7 as it goes, so that might be it.
I'm also now unable to open the interface at all (IP Address 192.168.1.101), and it's all starting to get me down a bit I must admit.
So basically, now that it's set up I don't bother with Pronterface, so I'm doing everything via wifi now?
So I can disconnect the USB cable and turn the power on?
Any reason I can't open the interface? I'm using Opera for a browser, but IE wouldn't open it either.
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If you can't connect with the web interface, go back to using Pronterface so you can see what is reported when you send M552 S1 to start the network. Use Windows Device Manager to check that the Duet USB port has appeared.
If you have a PanelDue with a 7" screen attached, USB power alone is insufficient.
I have seen Windows 7 occasionally disable a USB port. Rebooting Windows gets it back.
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Ok,
It's all connecting with the M552 S1 un commented, so to enter M552 S1 through Pronterface I must first run M552 S0 to disconnect it.
I also exempted http://192.168.1.101 from my browsers ad blocker, not sure if that helped.
It seems I can only open the interface when the Duetwifi is powered up? (told you I was a noob).
So where to now??
I'm now looking at "Configuring RepRapFirmware for a Cartesian printer" but it hardly looks straight forward to me at least.
I'm assuming I now close Pronterface, disconnect the USB, and connect via the interface?
Was there an auto calibration I can run?
Cheers again
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Here's a start…
M111 S0 ; Debug off
M550 ZortraxM200 ; Machine name
M551 Preprap ; Machine password (used for FTP)
M552 S1 ; Enable WiFi
M555 P2 ; Set output to look like Marlin
M575 P1 B57600 S1 ; Comms parameters for PanelDue
G21 ; Work in millimetres
G90 ; Send absolute coordinates...
M83 ; ...but relative extruder moves
