Duet Maestro with 3 Z axis drives

dehidding

Well, I've been trying to configure my Maestro to drive 3 Z motors. I've added the daughter board and have configured the three drives. It appears to work correctly, after some searching, I've managed to get the three drives to run at the same speed and they have all been configured as a single Z axis. Moving the Z in DWC has all three drives moving at the same speeds and direction.

But, now my extruder does not work...more to the point, when I attempt to extrude, one of the Z drives being driven by the daughterboard moves. For some reason, that drive is being activated by both the Z axis and the extruder.

I've been over the config.g file several times, along with other files and I'm not finding any cross definition that might account for this behaviour. Has anyone else tried to use a 3 drive Z with a Maestro? Is there something in the programming that might account for this behaviour? ideas?

Veti

most likely an error in M584

but without your actual config how do you expect us to analyse the problem?

deckingman

@dehidding as @Veti says, it's difficult to say what's wrong unless you give us something more to go on. At a guess, I'd say that you haven't taken notice of this from the Wiki

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VERY IMPORTANT! Assigning a drive using M584 does not remove its old assignment. Therefore, if you assign a drive that defaults to being an extruder drive, you should also assign the extruder drives explicitly as in the above example. Failure to do so may result in unexpected behaviour.

So to get 3 motors mapped to the Z axis, you must have used motors which were assigned as extruders to start with, therefore you must also explicitly assign motors to extruders.

dehidding

; --- SECTION: GENERAL PREFERENCES ( ) ---

M564 S1 H1 ; Enables Homing Requirement For Motor Activation and set axes limits

; --- SECTION: Z-PROBE & MESH COMPENSATION ---

M98 Pmachine_zprobe.g ; configure the z probe

M98 Pmachine_bedmesh.g ; configure the bed mesh

G29 S1 ; Load heightmap after power cycle

; --- SECTION: DRIVES (MOVEMENT SECTION) & ENDSTOPS ---

M667 S1 ; Enable coreXY mode
M569 P0 S0 D3 V0 ; Drive 0 goes forwards, CoreXY_1, stealth chop, disable spread cycle
M569 P1 S1 D3 V0 ; Drive 1 goes forwards, CoreXY_2, stealth chop, disable spread cycle
M569 P2 S1 D3 V0 ; Drive 2 goes forwards, Z Motor, stealth chop, disable spread cycle
M569 P3 S0 D3 V800 ; Drive 3 goes forwards, Left Extruder, stealth chop, spread cycle only on retractions basically)
M569 P5 S1 D3 V0 ; Drive 5 goes forward, Z Motor 2, stealth chop, disable spread cycle
M569 P6 S1 D3 V0 ; Drive 6 goes forward, Z Motor 3, stealth chop, disable spread cycle

M584 X0 Y1 Z2:5:6 U5 V6 ; three Z motors connected to driver outputs 2, 5 and 6

;SET ENDSTOPS
M574 X2 Y2 S1 ; Optical XY endstops, S1 is active high
M574 Z2 S0 ; Mechanical Z, S0 is active low

;SET STEPPER CURRENT
M906 X680 Y680 Z800 U800 V800 E500 I60 ; Set motor currents (mA) and idle current percentage

;SET STEPPER SPEED
M201 X3000 Y3000 Z75 U75 V75 E150 ; Set accelerations (mm/s^2)
M203 X9000 Y9000 Z700 U700 V700 E5000 ; Set maximum linear speeds
M566 X350 Y350 Z50 U50 V50 E60 ; Set maximum instantaneous speed changes/jerk (mm/min)

;SET AXIS DIM
M208 X0 Y0 Z-0.5 S1 ; Set axis min
M208 X315 Y357 Z358 S0 ; Set axis max

;SET AXIS STEPS/mm
M350 E16 ; Confirming default 1/16 microstepping mode for calculation, in case firmware default changes
M92 X80 Y80 Z800 U800 V800 ; Set axis steps/mm
M350 X32 Y32 Z32 U32 V32 ; Setting microstepping to 1/32.

;SET EXTRUDER STEPS/mm
M350 E16 ; Confirming default 1/16 microstepping mode for calculation, in case firmware default changes
M92 E213:197 ; Extruder microteps/mm Amazon Basic PETG 240°
M350 E128 ; Set microstepping mode to 1/128.

;RECOMBINE 3 Z MOTORS to ONE
M584 X0 Y1 Z2:5:6 P3 ; three Z motors connected to driver outputs 2, 5 and 6
M671 X157.5:-65:375 Y400:-5:-5 S5 ; leadscrews at rear middle, front left and front right

G21 ; Work in millimetres
G90 ; Set to absolute coordinates...
M84 S1 ; Set idle timeout

; --- SECTION: HEATERS, BED & THERMISTOR ---
; H0 is bed
; H1 is left heater
; H2 is right heater

M570 H0 P25 T30 ; Allow heater to be off by as much as 30C for 25 seconds
M570 H1 P15 T30 ; Allow heater to be off by as much as 30C for 15 seconds

M305 P0 T100000 B4138 C0 R2200 ; Set thermistor + ADC parameters for heater 0, For heated Bed thermistor
M305 P1 X501 R2200 ; Define left side extruder PT1000

M307 H0 A78.9 C265.2 D9.5 S1.00 V24.0 B0 ; Forcing heated bed PID control after power-cycle. Basic bed heating auto-tune
M307 H1 A309 C96 D5.2 S0.75 V24.1 B0 ; Set PID values use M303 auto-tune calibration settings

M302 P1 ; Allow Cold extrudes

; --- MAX TEMP SET ---
M143 H0 S120 ; Set maximum bed temperature to 120 C
M143 H1 S280 ; Set maximum heater temperature to 280C for hot end

; --- SECTION: FANS ( ) ---

M106 P0 S0 I0 F4 H-1 L0.3 ; Filter fan. Set fan 0 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off, Minimum fan value 0.3, Speed 100%
M106 P1 S0 I0 F4 H-1 L0.3 ; Cold-Section fan. Set fan 1 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off, Minimum fan value 0.3, Speed 100%
M106 P2 S0 I0 F4 H-1 L0.3 ; Nozzle fan. Set fan 2 value, PWM signal inversion and frequency. Thermostatic control is turned off, Minimum fan value 0.3, Speed 100%

; --- SECTION: TOOLS ( ) ---

; Remember! H0 is the heated bed!
; D0 is the first driver after movement (X, Y and Z) drives, which is left extruder

M563 P0 D0 H1 F2 S"Extruder" ; Define tool 0, left side tool (single extruder)
G10 P0 X0.0 Y0 Z0 ; Tool 0, set axis offsets
G10 P0 S0 R0 ; Tool 0, set active (S0) and standy temp (R) of 0

T0 ; Automatic tool select

; --- SECTION: NETWORKS (PROLOGUE & COMMUNCATIONS SECTION) ---
M98 Pmachine_access.g ; set machine name and IP
M586 P0 S1 ; Enable HTTP
M586 P1 S0 ; Disable FTP
M586 P2 S0 ; Disable Telnet

; --- SECTION: MISCELLANEOUS ---

M572 D0:1 S0.07 ; Extruder Pressure Advance
;M98 Pqc.g ; Do NOT uncomment unless you really know what you're doing

Veti

@dehidding said in Duet Maestro with 3 Z axis drives:

M584 X0 Y1 Z2:5:6 U5 V6

where are your E assignments?

Veti

@dehidding said in Duet Maestro with 3 Z axis drives:

M350 X32 Y32 Z32 U32 V32

why are you not using interpolation?

Also
M584 must come earlier in config.g than any M350 and M906 commands. If it creates new axes, it must also be earlier than any M92, M201, M203, M208, M350, M566, M574 , M667 and M669 commands.

dehidding

@veti , that would be because I grabbed that code direct from the dozuki and didn't realize I needed to assign the extruder.

Should be:
M584 X0 Y1 Z2:5:6 U5 V6 E3:4

dehidding

Adding the extruder definition and moving some things around seems to have solved the problem. Thanks.